RCN - SEES: Sustainable Cities - People and the Energy-Climate-Water Nexus

1140384（Ramaswami）。该奖项由NSF的科学，工程和可持续发展教育（SEES）活动资助，旨在应对创造可持续发展世界的挑战。 该项目将在20多所美国大学和2个国家实验室之间建立一个研究合作网络（RCN），以协调可持续城市的总体主题，重点是减少能源使用，碳排放和减轻城市供水和公共卫生的气候风险。美国网络将与国际可持续发展研究网络（澳大利亚，欧盟，亚洲）以及美国和全球城市的从业者和政策制定者网络合作。 RCN活动将导致制定（a）跨学科系统框架，以体现从城市规模到全球规模的人、基础设施和自然系统之间的联系，这些联系影响着城市的可持续性成果，（B）统一方法和国际数据标准，以实施框架，例如报告城市的碳足迹、城市的水脆弱性，或分析塑造城市基础设施和消费模式以实现可持续性的社会行为者，（c）一个由12个全球城市组成的网络，用于在具有不同自然、基础设施、社会经济和文化特征的城市测试框架及其组成部分理论和模型/方法，（d）一个虚拟合作论坛，用于分享研究方法，在20多所美国大学的可持续城市的共同主题领域的经验和教学工具。 RCN将提供基于科学的系统分析工具，这是全球1000多个正在制定能源、水和气候变化可持续发展计划的城市所急需的。该RCN的一个独特之处在于，它广泛整合了城市生态学、工业生态学、大气科学、基础设施工程、建筑学、城市规划、行为科学、公共事务和公共卫生，以实现可持续城市的目标。跨学科整合、跨尺度数据协调和跨城市比较有望推动可持续城市科学的发展。 RCN有可能影响参与美国大学的1200多名学生和协调实地工作的城市网络中的6500万人。通过与诸如环境倡议理事会-美国和世界银行等与世界各地城市合作的政策团体建立网络联系，传播潜力很大。

1140384 (Ramaswami). This award is funded under NSF's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, which aims to address the challenges of creating a sustainable world. This project will develop a research collaboration network (RCN) across 20+ US universities and 2 national labs to coordinate work on the overarching theme of sustainable cities, with focus on reducing energy use, carbon emissions and mitigating climate-risks to water supply and public health in cities. The US network will collaborate with international sustainability research networks (in Australia, EU, Asia) and with a network of practitioners and policymakers in US and global cities. RCN activities will lead to the development of (a) inter-disciplinary systems framework(s) to represent linkages between people, infrastructures and the natural system, from the city-scale to the global scale, that shape sustainability outcomes in cities, (b) harmonized methods and international data standards to operationalize the framework, to report, for example, the carbon footprints of cities, water vulnerability of cities, or to analyze social actors who shape urban infrastructures and consumption patterns toward sustainability, (c) a network of 12 global cities for testing the framework and its component theories and models/methods in cities with different natural, infrastructural, socioeconomic and cultural characteristics, (d) a virtual collaborative forum to share research methods, experiences and teaching tools across more than 20+ US universities on the common thematic area of sustainable cities. The RCN will provide science based systems analysis tools, much needed by more than 1000 cities worldwide that are developing sustainability plans addressing energy, water and climate change. A unique aspect of this RCN is broad-based integration across urban ecology, industrial ecology, atmospheric sciences, infrastructure engineering, architecture, urban planning, behavioral sciences, public affairs and public health toward the goal of sustainable cities. Cross-discipline integration, coordination of data across scales, and cross-city comparisons are expected to advance the science of sustainable cities. The RCN has potential to impact more than 1200 students in participating US universities and 65 million people in the network of cities where field work will be coordinated. Dissemination potential is high through network links with policy groups such as ICLEI-USA and The World Bank who work with cities worldwide.