Twin Cities Urban Sustainability Forum

双城城市可持续性论坛（TCUS论坛）将包括一个为期两天的主要专题讨论会，随后将在一年内举办一系列后续讲习班。主要专题讨论会将包括地方、国家和国际发言人，重点围绕五个交叉主题：（1）组织城市可持续性转化研究框架;（2）调整治理，以跨学科方法实现长期可持续性;（3）技术的使用;（4）来自多个部门的学者和从业人员之间的合作形式;（5）城市可持续性研究框架;（6）城市可持续性研究框架;（7）城市可持续性研究框架。（5）将城市生态系统研究与城市可持续发展实践整合为一个转化研究框架。演讲者和与会者（共120 - 160人）将是来自不同领域的学者和从业人员，包括但不限于城市规划，景观建筑，生态，工程和水资源。 后续研讨会将探讨这些主题，以进一步阐明翻译研究的框架，同时将框架付诸实践。研讨会过程本身也将被研究，以获得见解，以制定翻译研究框架。评价工作将包括对研讨会与会者进行会前和会后调查、重要访谈、研讨会说明的内容分析以及与会者观察，以便对研讨会成果进行严格分析，供发表。 拟议中的技术合作与利用论坛以及旨在开展转化研究进程的后续活动，将对促进实现可持续城市的目标具有重大的实际意义。除了为出版物制定转化研究框架的知识价值外，TCUS论坛，包括后续研讨会，本身将是一项主要的外联活动，对双子城地区和其他城市地区的可持续发展工作具有相当大的潜在效益。TCUS论坛的结果将与国家科学院区域城市可持续性系列相结合。调查结果将在一个或多个国家会议上提出，并将纳入城市生态系统棕色袋研讨会和可持续城市生活的新生研讨会。布鲁斯汉密尔顿10/16/10

The Twin Cities Urban Sustainability Forum (TCUS Forum) will include a main two-day symposium to be followed by a series of follow-on workshops that would occur over one year. The main symposium would include a mix of local, national, and international speakers, focused around five cross-cutting themes: (1) organization of a translational research framework for urban sustainability; (2) adaptation of governance for cross-disciplinary approaches to long-term sustainability; (3) use of technology; (4) forms of collaboration among academics and practitioners from multiple sectors; and (5) integration of urban ecosystems research and urban sustainability practice into a translational research framework. Both speakers and participants (120-160 total) will be a mix of academics and practitioners from diverse fields, including but not limited to urban planning, landscape architecture, ecology, engineering, and water resources. The follow-on workshops will explore these themes to further articulate a framework for translational research, while at the same time turning the framework into practice. The workshop process itself will also be studied to gain insights to develop the translational research framework. Evaluation will include pre- and post-surveys of workshop participants, key interviews, content analysis of workshop notes, and participant observation to conduct a rigorous analysis of the workshop outcomes for publication. The proposed TCUS Forum and follow-on activities to develop a translational research process would have major practical significance in facilitating the goal of attaining sustainable cities. In addition to the intellectual merit of developing a translational research framework for publication, the TCUS Forum, including follow-on workshops, would be would itself be a major outreach activity, with considerable potential benefit to sustainability efforts in the Twin Cities region and potentially other urban regions as well. Findings from the TCUS Forum will be integrated with the National Academy of Sciences regional urban sustainability series. Findings will be presented at one or more national conferences and will be incorporated into an Urban Ecosystems Brown Bag Seminar and a Freshman Seminar on sustainable urban living.Bruce Hamilton10/16/10