BE MUSES: Biocomplexity in the Bioeconomy: The Natural and Industrial Ecology of Biobased Products

BE MUSES：生物经济中的生物复杂性：生物基产品的自然和工业生态学

• 批准号: 0424700
• 负责人: Robert Anex
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0424700&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MUSES; Biocomplexity; Bioeconomy; Natural; Industrial

This Biocomplexity in the Environment/Materials Use Science, Engineering and Society project focuses on modeling the ecological, economic, and social impacts of a large-scale transition to the use of biomass-derived feedstock for the production of energy, fuel and products. The United States has set ambitious goals of producing from biomass 25% of its chemicals and materials, and 20% of its transportation fuel by 2030. Such a shift to biobased production will have profound impacts throughout the coupled industrial, agricultural and social systems. Very little information is available on the material flow cycles of the envisioned bioeconomy, especially on how those cycles are linked together, and on what the implications of changes in those cycles might be for resource availability, economics, the environment, and options for government policy. This research will use an integrated set of local, regional and global models to study the implications of near- and long-term bioeconomy scenarios. In parallel with physical process and substance flow modeling, agriculture sector economic and environmental modeling, and social impact assessment will be used to explore market structure, production, and social drivers as influences on future material flows in the bioeconomy. Researchers at Dartmouth College and the World Resources Institute will participate on this project. In partnership with the Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) we will use interest in the bioeconomy to motivate basic science education by designing and testing learning modules for high school science classes around key biobased conversion and production concepts. It is expected that results from this project will allow us to better understand: (1) The flows of materials in the bioeconomy; (2) if biobased production requires trade-offs with water quality, climate change, and food production; and if so, the nature and extent of those trade-offs; (3) the ability of agriculture to supply the feedstock needs of large-scale bioproduction; (4) the coupling within the bioeconomy between water quality and climate change brought about by changes in the flow of nitrogen and carbon compounds; (5) the factors that influence farmers' willingness to produce for the bioeconomy; and (6) the impacts of policy mechanisms designed to promote the development of a bioeconomy. This award will be managed by program officers in CMS / ENG, ECS / ENG and DMII / ENG, reflecting the breadth of expertise brought to this broad multidisciplinary topic in biocomplexity.

这个环境/材料使用科学、工程和社会中的生物复杂性项目侧重于模拟大规模过渡到使用生物质原料生产能源、燃料和产品的生态、经济和社会影响。美国已经制定了雄心勃勃的目标，到2030年，生物质将占其化学品和材料的25%，占其运输燃料的20%。这种向生物基生产的转变将对整个耦合的工业、农业和社会系统产生深远的影响。关于设想的生物经济的物质流动循环的信息很少，特别是关于这些循环是如何联系在一起的，以及这些循环的变化对资源可用性、经济、环境和政府政策选择的影响。这项研究将使用一套综合的地方、区域和全球模型来研究近期和长期生物经济情景的影响。在物理过程和物质流建模的同时，农业部门经济和环境建模以及社会影响评估将用于探索市场结构、生产和社会驱动因素对生物经济中未来物质流的影响。达特茅斯学院和世界资源研究所的研究人员将参与这个项目。我们将与真实教学联盟（ATA）合作，利用人们对生物经济的兴趣，围绕关键的生物转化和生产概念，为高中科学课程设计和测试学习模块，从而激发基础科学教育。预计这个项目的结果将使我们更好地理解：(1)生物经济中的物质流动；(2)如果生物基生产需要与水质、气候变化和粮食生产进行权衡；如果是这样，这些权衡的性质和程度；(3)农业提供大规模生物生产所需原料的能力；(4)氮碳化合物流量变化带来的水质与气候变化之间的生物经济耦合；(5)影响农户生物经济生产意愿的因素；(6)促进生物经济发展的政策机制的影响。该奖项将由CMS / ENG、ECS / ENG和DMII / ENG的项目官员管理，反映了生物复杂性这一广泛的多学科主题所带来的专业知识广度。