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好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性;它们对其他基础设施系统以及社会、技术和经济系统的相互依赖性;它们在时间和空间上的动态行为;以及对他们提供的服务的需求。 该研讨会将汇集各种各样的研究人员，以探索和形成为建筑环境提供可持续基础设施的主题内的研究举措。 它定于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。 研讨会的目标是：1）确定与城市建筑环境相关的可持续基础设施研究的优先事项和行动计划; 2）确定合作研究项目并确定优先次序，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筑环境的可持续基础设施的研究; 2）开发3？] 5.明确概述了国际合作研究项目，包括建立研究团队，确定资助机会和概述研究目标。 3个美国研讨会组织者致力于为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，这些参与者将在学科，专业领域，性别，种族和职业生涯长度方面多样化。 也有25人参加吗？30名国际研究人员和7名？] 12名国际博士生。 这些人将来自四个国家（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。 该研讨会将为可持续性科学和工程的研究和应用提供基础知识，并可能影响为建筑环境服务的未来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用于在学术和专业上发展这一领域的关键主题。 结果将促进更好地了解不同学科在发展社会经济中的作用。技术系统，并将能够更好地了解固有的风险，在大，多？]规模，复杂的动态系统，包括社会？]技术系统。 具体而言，它应协助制定更好的应对措施，以应对气候变化、城市化程度的提高、资源使用的增加、资源短缺的影响以及老化的城市基础设施的管理。 研讨会产生的研究项目侧重于全球化和可持续性，应吸引（和培训）更多样化，全球一体化，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.