Integrating Social Science into NSF Observatories
Integrating Social Science into National Science
Foundation Observatories
An RFF Workshop
January 24-26, 2007
In 2001, the National Research Council (NRC) identified eight "grand challenges" in environmental science research. These challenges define key research questions which require significant and sustained multidisciplinary collaboration. Effectively responding to these challenges further requires both new social science research and its full integration into ongoing environmental science and engineering research and practice.
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For a variety of reasons, this multidisciplinary integration process, as it is occurring in NSF Observatories (specifically CLEANER and CUAHSI (merged into WATERS), and NEON) and in the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER), needs improvement and encouragement. The objectives of the workshop are to identify the fundamental organizational, informational, infrastructural, and financial structures required to effectively support integrated social and natural science evaluations of coupled human-natural systems. Additionally, this workshop focuses on clarifying the analytical research questions and identifying the substantive linkages between these two sets of disciplines in the Observatory context. It is also hoped that this workshop will help to build consensus among social and natural scientists and the relevant NSF directorates on a broad research and implementation agenda for advancing the role of social science research at the observatories. The following workshop documents are available in PDF format: |
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| Day 1 - State of Play: Social Science at NSF Observatories | ||
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Welcome and Introduction - Goals of the Workshop | ||
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NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Welcome | ||
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Participants
Shalini Vajjhala
