Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Immobility in a changing climate

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：气候变化中的不动性

• 批准号: 2331509
• 负责人: Adelle Thomas
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: CLIMATE ANALYTICS INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-15 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2331509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Immobility

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 ITHACA project aims to investigate the underexplored, yet far more common aspect of human mobility - immobility. The team will seek to understand why people choose to stay, return or cannot leave in response to climate change. The transdisciplinary research team will utilize novel methodologies to empirically study the complex phenomenon of immobility in five coastal urban sites located in Bahamas, Brazil, Ghana, Mozambique and Sweden. ITHACA will improve our understanding of immobility of those vulnerable to climate extremes and of the (un)willingness to relocate from climatically high-risk zones, and why people return to high-risk areas. The study will examine the role for national and international finance and support for immobile populations to develop capabilities and resilience. ITHACA will engage with, and provide empirical evidence to contribute towards, current efforts to avert, minimize and address the potential losses associated with climate change. This work will seek to address critical challenges and provide critical information for people and communities disproportionately affected by climate change and to better inform decision makers governing migration, climate disasters and adaptation.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.

该奖项为参与由 55 个国家的全球变化研究倡议通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选出的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究资助组织组成的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。 它旨在通过调整和调动国际资源，加速交付最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个联盟内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨境资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持最好通过多国方法解决的全球相关主题的优秀研究，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在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作提供支持。 这些团队将建立跨学科项目，以识别和了解气候相关事件（无论是缓慢发生还是快速发生）与人类迁徙和流动之间的关系。 ITHACA 项目旨在调查人类流动性中尚未充分探索但更为常见的方面——不动性。 该团队将寻求了解为什么人们选择留下、返回或不能离开来应对气候变化。 跨学科研究小组将利用新颖的方法对位于巴哈马、巴西、加纳、莫桑比克和瑞典的五个沿海城市地点的复杂的不动现象进行实证研究。 ITHACA 将提高我们对易受极端气候影响的人们的不动性、不愿意从气候高风险地区搬迁以及人们为何返回高风险地区的理解。该研究将探讨国家和国际金融的作用以及对流动人口发展能力和复原力的支持。 ITHACA 将参与当前避免、最小化和解决与气候变化相关的潜在损失的努力，并提供经验证据，为之做出贡献。这项工作将寻求解决关键挑战，为受气候变化影响较大的人民和社区提供关键信息，并更好地为管理移民、气候灾害和适应的决策者提供信息。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准。