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The PAGES - Past Global Changes project is an international effort to coordinate and promote past global change research. Its primary objective is to improve our understanding of past changes in the Earth system in order to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. PAGES' scope of interest includes the physical climate system, biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem processes, biodiversity, and human dimensions on different time scales - Pleistocene, Holocene, last millennium and the recent past. PAGES fosters and supports international and interdisciplinary collaborations and promotes the involvement of scientists from developing countries in the global paleo-community discourse. Over 5,500 people from more than 125 countries currently subscribe to PAGES and hundreds are actively involved in its working groups. All interested scientists are encouraged to get involved and contribute to PAGES' initiatives, participate in PAGES-supported workshops and publish PAGES-relevant products. PAGES also organizes travel stipends for Guest Scientists. PAGES' science structure (the triangle in the centre of the circle) defines the scientific scope of its activities and addresses the key components of the Earth system through the themes climate, environment, and humans. PAGES itself is not a research institution. Research activities are not prescribed by PAGES committees nor by the International Project Office (IPO). Rather, it responds to 'bottom-up' initiatives that arise from the community. It is also involved in a number of collaborations with its parent organization and partners. The agreed-upon PAGES' vision is implemented primarily through community-devised working groups. Integrative activities bring together working group members and researchers from the broader environment to collaborate on specific issues. PAGES is therefore a service-oriented project that works to promote integrative research activities and support the international paleoscience community through fostering collaboration and communication, and ensuring access to and dissemination of results, data, and other relevant information. In addition, capacity building, education and outreach are an integral part of PAGES' philosophy. (Sponsors and partners ) PAGES is a core project of Future Earth and is funded by the US National Science Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is a scientific partner of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). It was a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) from its inception until December 2015. (Organizational structure ) PAGES is overseen by a Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) comprised of members chosen to be representative of the major techniques, disciplines and geographic regions that contribute to paleoscience. Under the direction of the SSC, the staff at the small International Project Office (IPO) in Bern, Switzerland, carry out the day-to-day running of the PAGES program. (Stakeholder engagement ) PAGES aims to engage relevant stakeholders in its activities at a number of levels. The aim to increase stakeholder engagement is a critical goal of its parent organization, Future Earth, as it works to ensure knowledge is generated in partnership with society and the users of science. ==Mission, objectives, and philosophy== Mission PAGES facilitates activities that address past changes in the Earth system in a quantitative and process-oriented way in order to improve predictions of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. Objectives PAGES main areas of focus include: - Facilitating international research activities on past environmental changes - Promoting the synthesis of scientific knowledge and data - Strengthening the involvement of scientists from developing countries - Integrating the paleoscience and wider global environmental change communities - Disseminating important research findings and organizational information - Supporting scientific training and education - Integrating scientific evidence from observations and modeling - Ensuring public access to paleoscientific data - Enhancing the visibility and use of paleoresearch Several research activities, comprised of groups of scientists with common interests, are incorporated within PAGES. Its programs and workshops are designed to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries. It also provides a forum for scientists to discuss and interpret ice, ocean, and terrestrial paleoclimate records and modeling results, and fosters the development of internationally accessible data archives. Philosophy PAGES aims to create synergies by overcoming boundaries that have historically existed between different: 1. Approaches: Reconstruction, data analysis and numerical modeling 2. Spheres: Land, ocean, ice and atmosphere 3. Timescales: Paleoscience, modern processes and future projections 4. Resource levels: Developed and developing country scientists 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PAGES」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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