DISES: Restoring Indigenous Socio-Environmental Systems (RISES)

DISES：恢复土著社会环境系统（RISES）

• 批准号: 2308299
• 负责人: Brian Codding
• 金额: $ 159.97万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2308299&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Restoring; Indigenous; Socio; Environmental

Indigenous practices influenced plant and animal distributions across the planet for thousands of years. Research shows that biodiversity and ecosystem health are often higher where Indigenous socio-environmental systems (SES) persist. Yet in many locations around the world, including North America, these dynamics were interrupted by colonial invasions. Centuries of intensive agriculture and industrial activities have altered ecosystems and eroded traditional relationships between Indigenous people and ecosystems. In this project a multidisciplinary team develops a framework for Restoring Indigenous Socio-Environmental Systems (RISES). This framework is applied to a restoration effort on Tribal land. The restoration is led by the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation in the Bear River Basin. The team is quantifying long-term Indigenous SES dynamics. They are modeling the drivers of SES change that are critical for conservation goals. That information is being disseminated to land managers and the public. In addition, the project trains many tribal youth, undergraduate, and graduate students. Uncovering past Indigenous SES dynamics is being accomplished through a convergence of enduring traditional knowledge, community ecology, historical ecology, archaeology, and paleoecology. Restoration of the dynamics takes place with the collaboration and shared leadership of Indigenous communities. These communities are typically left out of restoration projects to the detriment of both social and environmental systems. This project develops a generalizable convergence framework. That framework quantifies long-term socio-environmental dynamics, evaluates the drivers of change in the system, and synthesizes findings. It does so using statistical and process-based models that include estimates of uncertainty to evaluate the potential efficacy of alternative restoration scenarios under future climate regimes. Finally, it leverages the findings to engage community members, Indigenous secondary and university students, and land managers, all within a collaborative framework of shared knowledge generation and problem solving. Drawing on long-standing and emerging hypotheses across the natural and behavioral sciences, the project evaluates the drivers of SES dynamics. These include the role of gradual vs. stochastic processes on SES stability, resilience, and tipping points. They are being integrated in a framework capable of forecasting with estimates of uncertainty under future climate scenarios.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

土著实践影响了数千年的植物和动物分布。研究表明，在土著社会环境系统（SES）持续存在的情况下，生物多样性和生态系统健康通常更高。然而，在包括北美在内的世界许多地方，这些动态受到殖民入侵的打断。数百年来，密集的农业和工业活动改变了生态系统，并侵蚀了土著人民与生态系统之间的传统关系。在这个项目中，一个多学科团队开发了一个框架，用于恢复土著社会环境系统（RISES）。该框架应用于部落土地上的恢复工作。修复体是由熊河盆地肖肖尼国家的西北乐队领导的。该团队正在量化长期土著SES动力学。他们正在模拟SES变更的驱动因素，这对于保护目标至关重要。这些信息正在传播给土地经理和公众。此外，该项目还训练许多部落青年，本科生和研究生。通过持续的传统知识，社区生态学，历史生态学，考古学和古生态学的融合来实现过去的土著SES动态。恢复动态是在土著社区的合作和共同领导下进行的。这些社区通常不在恢复项目之外，损害了社会和环境系统。该项目开发了可推广的收敛框架。该框架量化了长期的社会环境动力学，评估系统变化的驱动因素，并综合了发现。它使用基于统计和过程的模型来做到这一点，包括估计不确定性，以评估未来气候制度下替代恢复情景的潜在功效。最后，它利用这些调查结果使社区成员，土著中学和大学生以及土地管理者都在共享知识产生和解决问题的协作框架内。该项目利用自然和行为科学的长期和新兴假设，评估了SES动力学的驱动因素。其中包括逐渐与随机过程在SES稳定性，弹性和临界点上的作用。它们被整合到一个能够预测未来气候场景下的不确定性的框架中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。