International Workshop on Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure; Auckland, New Zealand; December 15-17, 2008

可持续的基础设施系统需要更多地了解这些系统的复杂性，包括它们对环境系统和服务的依赖；它们对其他基础设施系统和社会、技术和经济系统的相互依赖；它们在时间和空间上的动态行为；以及对它们所提供服务的需求。这次研讨会将汇集不同的研究人员，在为建筑环境提供可持续基础设施的主题下探索和形成研究倡议。会议定于2008年12月15日至17日，在第三届可持续发展工程与科学国际会议(12月9日至12日)之后举行。研讨会的目标是：1)确定与城市建成环境相关的可持续基础设施研究的优先事项和行动计划；以及2)确定合作研究项目的优先次序，包括建立研究团队、确定资助机会和概述研究目标。研讨会的成果将是：1)建立资助倡议和/或计划的议程，以支持对服务于城市建成环境的可持续基础设施的研究；以及2)开发3？]5明确概述的国际合作研究项目，包括建立研究团队、确定资助机会和概述研究目标。3个美国研讨会的组织者承诺为13名美国参与者招募7名额外的美国研究人员和3名博士生，他们将在学科、专业领域、性别、种族和职业生涯方面有所不同。参加会议的还有另外30名国际研究人员和12名国际博士生。这些个人将来自四个国家(英国、日本、新西兰和澳大利亚)，他们的参与将得到本国政府的支持。该讲习班将为可持续发展科学和工程的研究和应用提供基础知识，并可能影响未来服务于建成环境的城市基础设施的规划和管理。制定研究的优先事项和具体的跨学科研究项目将有助于将资源投向被认为在学术和专业上对发展这一领域至关重要的主题。其成果将促进更好地理解各种学科在发展社会技术系统中的作用，并将使人们更好地理解构成社会技术系统的大型、多尺度、复杂动态系统所固有的风险。具体地说，它应该帮助制定更好的应对气候变化、城市化程度提高、资源利用增加以及资源短缺的影响和管理老化的城市基础设施的措施。讲习班产生的侧重于全球化和可持续性的研究项目应该吸引(和培训)更加多样化、全球一体化和具有竞争力的科学和工程劳动力。国际研究合作将导致课程和课程开发的创新。

Sustainable infrastructure systems require a greater understanding of the complexity of those systems, including their dependence on environmental systems and services; their interdependence on other infrastructure systems, and on social, technical and economic systems; their dynamic behavior over time and space; and the need for the services they provide. This workshop will bring together a diverse blend of researchers to explore and form research initiatives within the theme of Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure for the Built Environment. It is scheduled for Dec. 15-17, 2008, following the Third International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science (Dec 9-12). The workshop objectives are to: 1) identify priorities and an action plan for research into Sustainable Infrastructure related to the urban built environment; and, 2) identify and prioritize collaborative research projects, including establishing research teams, identifying funding opportunities and outlining research objectives. The workshop outcomes will be: 1) an agenda for establishing a funding initiative and/or program to support research into sustainable infrastructure that serves the urban built environment; and 2) development of 3?]5 clearly outlined international collaborative research projects, including establishing research teams, identifying funding opportunities and outlining the research objectives. The 3 US workshop organizers are committed to recruiting 7 additional US researchers and 3 doctoral students for a group of 13 US participants that will be diverse in terms of discipline, area of expertise, gender, race, and career length. Also attending are 25?]30 additional international researchers and 7?]12 international doctoral students. These individuals will come from four countries (UK, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia) and their participation will be supported by their home governments. This workshop will provide fundamentals for the study and application of the science and engineering of sustainability and may affect the planning and management of future urban infrastructure that serves the built environment. The development of priorities for research and of specific interdisciplinary research projects will assist in directing resources into topics which are considered crucial in developing this field, both academically and professionally. The results will promote a better understanding of the role of various disciplines in developing socio?]technical systems and will enable a greater understanding of the risks inherent in the large, multiple?]scale, complex dynamic systems which comprise socio?]technical systems. Specifically, it should assist in developing better responses to climate change, increased urbanization, increasing use of resources, and implications of shortages of resources and management of aging urban infrastructure. The research projects resulting from the workshop that have a focus on globalization and sustainability should attract (and train) a more diverse, globally integrated, and competitive science and engineering workforce. International research collaboration will lead to innovation in course and curriculum development.