Collaborative Research: WSC-Category 1. Sustainability Dynamics for Water Resources in a Rapidly Urbanizing and Climatically Sensitive Region

爱达荷大学和华盛顿州立大学被授予“水、可持续发展和气候1型奖”，以开发组织框架，对华盛顿州斯波坎-科达伦爱达荷走廊的城市化及其对水的影响进行系统评估。该框架的基础是该地区科学家和当地社区之间的合作。该奖项的主要目标将是更好地了解人的方面和水资源之间的联系，作为一个耦合的人-自然系统。这将基于对现有数据和模型的访问和评估，并增加必要的新社会科学数据，以完善、整合和优化已建立的模型。优化模型将开发可被斯波坎-科达伦走廊社区的政策和决策者评估和采用的情景。该项目将采用系统方法来解决水资源和人类活动的复杂交集，包括气候动态、水量/质量、景观动态、分布式和可再生能源、社会/经济因素、文化和人口变化、自然资源法、建筑环境/工程基础设施、交通规划/政策、城市-荒地/农业界面，以及环境变化带来的新威胁(例如野火影响、入侵物种)。将完成的工作将由来自爱达荷大学和华盛顿州立大学以及获取数据并负责管理其资源和社区的州、联邦、市、县和部落机构的研究人员完成。该奖项将建立一个涉及合作伙伴和核心利益相关者的教育和参与计划。更广泛的影响将通过以下三种方式产生：(1)举办促进发现和理解的公共论坛；(2)向整个研究区域和该地区其他社区的利益相关者广泛传播规划工作和产品；(3)通过与决策者探讨政策选择，为社会带来直接利益。该项目将与教育项目合作，为K-12课程和教师培训提供STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）和可持续性产品。与部落的伙伴关系将侧重于将代表性不足的群体纳入研究，并将让土著和非土著研究生参与利益相关者研讨会和教育计划的发展。该项目将与科达伦、斯波坎和科尔维尔部落建立伙伴关系，并让美国原住民研究生参与其中。由于其丰富的文化和历史，这些部落是研究和推广研究项目的重要合作伙伴。

The University of Idaho and Washington State University are awarded a Water, Sustainability and Climate Type 1 award to develop the organizing framework for a systematic assessment of urbanization and its impacts on water in the Spokane, Washington-Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Corridor. The framework is grounded in collaboration between scientists and the local communities in the area. The principal goal of the award will be to accomplish an improved understanding of linkages between human dimensions and water resources as a coupled human-natural system. This will be based on accessing and assessing existing data and models, and adding essential new social science data to refine, integrate, and optimize established models. Optimization models will develop scenarios that can be evaluated and adopted by policy and decision makers in the communities of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Corridor. A systems approach will be used in this project to address the complex intersection of water resources and human activity including climate dynamics, water quantity/quality, landscape dynamics, distributed and renewable energy, social/economic factors, cultural and demographic change, natural resource law, built environment/engineering infrastructure, transportation planning/policies, urban-wildland/agriculture interface, and new threats from changing environments (e.g., wildfire impacts, invasive species). The work that will be accomplished will be performed by researchers from the University of Idaho and Washington State University and the state, federal, city, county and tribal institutions that acquire data and are responsible for the management of their resources and communities.The award will build an education and engagement program that involves partners and core stakeholders in the collaborative effort. Broader impacts will occur in three ways: (1) holding of public fora that advance discovery and understanding, (2) providing broad dissemination of planning efforts and products to stakeholders throughout the study area and in other communities in the region, and (3) transferring direct benefits to society through the exploration of policy options with decision-makers. The project will partner with education programs to provide STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and sustainability products for K-12 programming and teacher training. Partnerships with the tribes will focus on integrating underrepresented groups into the research and will engage indigenous and non-indigenous graduate students in development of stakeholder workshops and education programs. The program will build partnerships with the Coeur d'Alene, Spokane, and Colville Tribes and engage Native American graduate students in the processes. Owing to their rich culture and history these tribes are essential partners in the research and outreach of the research program.