[M-IS01] Environmental, socio-economic, and climatic changes in Northern Eurasia

[MIS01-P01] NORTHERN EURASIA FUTURE INITIATIVE (NEFI), UPDATE

*Pavel Groisman^1,2,3 (1.NC State University Research Scholar at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA、2.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 、3.Hydrology Science & Services Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina, USA)

キーワード：Northern Eurasia, Environment and socio-economic changes, Climate change, NEFI, annual update

NEFI was conceived in 2015 as a successor of the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI; http://neespi.org). In 2016, a NEFI White Paper was posted at http://nefi-neespi.org/. This White Paper was converted and expanded into two peer-reviewed programmatic NEFI Science Plan papers (Monier et al. 2017; Groisman et al. 2017). Being focused on the same region, the difference between two Initiatives stems from their major Science Questions:
NEESPI: How do Northern Eurasia’s terrestrial ecosystems dynamics interact with and alter the biosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, and hydrosphere of the Earth? NEFI: How to provide in Northern Eurasia a sustainable societal development (economy well-being, activities, health, and strategic planning) in changing climate, ecosystems, and societies?
In other words, while NEESPI foci were on understanding of the processes that have and will be occurred over Northern Eurasia, NEFI foci are to answer questions about what should be done for the human well-being in the changing natural and social environments of the region. Currently, NEFI includes 35 international projects devoted to the Arctic, Eurasian Boreal Forest Zone, and the Dry Land Belt of Northern Eurasia (31 of them are new; Figure 1).

Each year, the NEFI active organizes three or more dedicated NEFI Sessions at the AGU, JpGU and SCERT Conferences. NEFI Special Issue of the Environ. Res. Lett. is being published (currently, the Issue has 47 papers accepted and a number of manuscripts are in the review process). The deadline for the article submissions of the NEFI Special Issue submissions is December 30, 2021. NEFI is open for joining of other research groups.

References:

Groisman et al. 2017: Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI): Facing the challenges and pathways of global change in the twenty-first century. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 4:41.

Monier et al. 2017: A Review of and Perspectives on Global Change Modeling for Northern Eurasia. Environ. Res.Lett., 12: 083001.