Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Climate extremes and migration in Madagascar: Towards an integrated monitoring and modeling for mitigation and adaptation

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：马达加斯加的极端气候和移民：迈向缓解和适应的综合监测和建模

• 批准号: 2318924
• 负责人: Valerie Mueller
• 金额: $ 44.98万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Climate

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will establish transdisciplinary projects to identify and understand how climate-related events, both slow and rapid onset, are linked to human migration and mobility. The CHAIN project, focused on a case study in Madagascar, includes agent-based and multi-hazard modeling to fill gaps in our understanding around climate driven migration. The investigators will use multiple approaches to build a cohesive data set to address four specific, well-defined, gaps in the literature. By doing so, the project team will also develop cost-effective methods for quantifying and then modeling migration, in a multi-hazard environment. Importantly, the project aims to characterize migration to inform adaptation and policy responses. These goals will be accomplished via four interconnected work packages, with intentionality and theory informing the connections the team prioritizes. The work packages include: (1) remote sensing-based estimates of migration, (2) physical models, (3) measuring the migration-multi-hazard environment nexus; and (4) agent-based modeling. The research team includes researchers from France, Madagascar, Sweden, UK, and USA, and draws on several expertise to accomplish their goals: environmental physics and geography, climatology and environmental sciences, development studies, applied development economics, policy evaluation, and behavioral and other social sciences. The team also includes six stakeholder organizations and by including “knowledge-brokering” workshops throughout the project the team demonstrated their commitment to the co-production of knowledge. This collective skillset is critical for the team to develop integrated human-centric approaches and better understand complex relationships among the many factors influencing migration/mobility and its relationship to climate hazards.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.

该奖项为参加一个由55个国家通过Belmont论坛进行全球变更研究的计划竞争性选择的项目提供了支持。 Belmont论坛是一个研究资助组织的财团，专注于支持全球环境变化挑战和机遇的跨学科方法。它的目的是加快迫切需要的国际研究的交付，以通过结盟和动员国际资源来消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个合作伙伴国家为财团内的研究人员提供资金，以减轻资金越过国际边界的需求。这种方法设施有效利用国家资源来支持关于全球相关性主题的出色研究，这是通过跨国方法来解决的，并认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员提供了支持，以在财团中合作，该公司由至少三个参与国家的合作伙伴组成。团队将建立跨学科项目，以识别和了解与气候相关的事件如何缓慢和快速发作，与人类的移民和流动性有关。该连锁项目的重点是马达加斯加的案例研究，其中包括基于代理的和多危险的建模，以填补我们对气候驱动迁移的理解。研究人员将使用多种方法来构建一个有凝聚力的数据集，以解决文献中四个特定的，定义明确的差距。通过这样做，项目团队还将在多危险环境中开发用于量化然后建模迁移的成本效益方法。重要的是，该项目旨在表征移民以告知适应和政策响应。这些目标将通过四个相互联系的工作包来实现，并具有意图和理论，以告知团队优先级的联系。工作包包括：（1）基于遥感的迁移估计值，（2）物理模型，（3）测量迁移 - 穆尔蒂 - 危险环境Nexus nexus nexus; （4）基于代理的建模。研究团队包括来自法国，马达加斯加，瑞典，英国和美国的研究人员，并借鉴了几个专业知识来实现​​其目标：环境物理学和地理，气候学和环境科学，发展研究，应用发展经济学，政策评估，行为评估以及行为和其他社会科学。该团队还包括六个利益相关者组织，并通过在整个项目中包括“知识经纪”研讨会，该团队表明了他们对知识共同生产的承诺。这种集体技能对于团队开发以人为中心的综合方法至关重要，并更好地理解许多因素之间的复杂关系影响迁移/流动性及其与气候危害的关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来评估的珍贵支持。