Biocomplexity - Incubation Activity: Integrated Modeling of the Complementarities and Conflicts Between Ecological Systems and Economic Activities in North Carolina

生物复杂性 - 孵化活动：北卡罗来纳州生态系统与经济活动之间的互补性和冲突的综合建模

• 批准号: 0083327
• 负责人: V. Kerry Smith
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2007-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083327&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biocomplexity; Incubation; Activity; Integrated; Modeling

This incubation activity will investigate the nature of the complementarities and conflicts between the services of ecological systems and economic activities, focusing specifically on the land-water interface for North Carolina's linked rivers and estuaries. Recent concerns about rapid economic growth, ongoing transformations to North Carolina's environmental resources, growing nutrient loadings to coastal waterways, animal agriculture, and the prospect of increased hurricanes and coastal flooding in a rapidly developing landscape have focused attention on the development of integrated research to design policy responses to these issues. This research seeks to develop linkages between ecosystem models and a dynamic computational economic model describing equilibrium locations of heterogeneous households and firms in a spatial context. The ecosystem structures simulate ecological processes and functions based on the land use designation of their cells along with their interface with rivers, wetlands, and coastal estuaries. The research will take advantage of attributes of the study area and the research team drawn from the Research Triangle and external universities. These include: (a) a long history of field research for background data (e.g. the EPA Albemarle-Pamlico Study 1990-96), some relatively undisturbed coastal environments for new monitoring activities, and recent efforts to collect fairly extensive information on key descriptors of the major watersheds; (b) a network of linked natural scientists, engineers, and GIS-based landscape ecologists with a history of collaboration; (c) one of the largest collections (in the US) of environmental economists (who also have a history of collaborating with the natural science community); and (d) a select group of distinguished external scholars with experience in the quantitative and methodological requirements of developing and linking spatial models capable of describing the dynamic interactions of ecological processes and economic activities. A team of natural and social scientists and engineers will work with: V. Kerry Smith and Leonard J. Piedrafesa of NC State University; Nancy Bockstael, University of Maryland; and Thomas Rutherford, University of Colorado. Activities include a conference with commissioned papers and a continuing workshop series where natural and social scientists will interact to define the research. This incubation activity was funded as part of the FY2000 Biocomplexity Special Competition.

这项孵化活动将调查生态系统服务和经济活动之间的互补性和冲突的性质，特别侧重于北卡罗来纳州相连的河流和河口的陆地-水界面。 最近对经济快速增长、北卡罗来纳州环境资源持续转型、沿海水道营养负荷不断增加、畜牧业以及飓风和沿海洪水在快速发展的景观中增加的前景的关注，都集中在综合研究的发展上，以设计对这些问题的政策反应。 本研究旨在建立生态系统模型和动态计算经济模型之间的联系，描述异质家庭和企业在空间背景下的平衡位置。 生态系统结构模拟生态过程和功能的基础上，土地利用指定的细胞沿着与他们的界面与河流，湿地和沿海河口。 研究将利用研究区域的属性和来自研究三角和外部大学的研究团队。 其中包括：（a）实地研究背景数据的历史悠久（如美国环保署Albemarle-Pamlico研究1990-96），一些相对未受干扰的沿海环境，用于新的监测活动，以及最近为收集关于主要流域关键描述符的相当广泛的信息所做的努力;（B）一个有合作历史的自然科学家、工程师和基于地理信息系统的景观生态学家的网络;（c）美国最大的环境经济学家（他们也有与自然科学界合作的历史）的集合之一;以及（d）一组杰出的外部学者，他们在开发和连接能够描述生态过程和经济活动的动态相互作用的空间模型的数量和方法要求方面具有经验。 一个由自然和社会科学家和工程师组成的团队将与北卡罗来纳州州立大学的V·克里·史密斯和伦纳德·J·皮德拉费萨、马里兰州大学的南希·博克斯塔尔和科罗拉多大学的托马斯·卢瑟福合作。 活动包括一个会议与委托论文和一个持续的研讨会系列，自然和社会科学家将互动，以确定研究。 这一孵化活动是作为2000财政年度生物复杂性特别竞赛的一部分提供资金的。