SEES Fellows: Social-Ecological Resilience of Coastal Shoreline Ecosystems: Developing a Framework for Informed Decision-Making

SEES 研究员：沿海海岸线生态系统的社会生态复原力：制定知情决策框架

• 批准号: 1215825
• 负责人: Steven Scyphers
• 金额: $ 50.34万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-15 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1215825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SEES; Fellows; Social; Ecological; Resilience

This interdisciplinary project will investigate the social, ecological and engineering factors that contribute to coastal resilience and develop a framework for improved communication and informed decision making. The study aims to understand how social, ecological and engineering objectives for coastal shorelines are interlinked with the health of fisheries and fish habitats in order to develop a framework to improve social and ecological resilience. Study sites include Narragansett and Mobile Bays, which are both large, densely-populated estuarine embayments that have experienced dramatic declines in nearshore marine habitats. The research effort will 1) identify and model the fisheries consequences of shifts in habitat composition; 2) investigate the social, cultural and political factors that affect the sustainability of shoreline ecosystems, 3) assess the shoreline protection capacity and habitat complexity of wave-attenuating breakwaters; and 4) incorporate the social, ecological and engineering indices generated by the first three tasks into a decision-making framework. The project will involve collaboration between researchers and practitioners in the academic, government and private sectors, and include a variety of outreach activities to students and the public.Understanding the complexity of factors related to resilience of human and natural communities is of high priority for those tasked with managing resources on a changing planet. In the past, most coastal conservation planning and prioritization has occurred without adequate knowledge or consideration of socio-cultural or engineering impacts. The goal of this research is to provide managers with decision support tools to enable restoration and sustainability efforts that maximize social capital. This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.

这个跨学科项目将调查有助于沿海恢复力的社会，生态和工程因素，并制定一个框架，以改善沟通和知情决策。 该研究旨在了解沿海海岸线的社会，生态和工程目标如何与渔业和鱼类栖息地的健康相互关联，以制定一个框架，提高社会和生态复原力。研究地点包括纳拉甘塞特和移动的海湾，这两个都是大的，人口稠密的河口海湾，经历了戏剧性的下降，在近岸海洋栖息地。 研究工作将：1）确定和模拟生境组成变化对渔业的影响; 2）调查影响海岸线生态系统可持续性的社会、文化和政治因素; 3）评估波浪衰减防波堤的海岸线保护能力和生境复杂性;（4）将前三项工作产生的社会、生态和工程指标纳入决策框架。 该项目将涉及学术界、政府和私营部门的研究人员和从业人员之间的合作，并包括面向学生和公众的各种外联活动。对于那些负责在不断变化的地球上管理资源的人来说，了解与人类和自然社区复原力有关的因素的复杂性是一个高度优先事项。 在过去，大多数沿海保护规划和优先事项的制定都没有充分了解或考虑社会文化或工程影响。 本研究的目标是为管理者提供决策支持工具，使恢复和可持续发展的努力，最大限度地提高社会资本。 该项目得到了NSF科学，工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员）计划的支持，其目标是帮助实现所需的发现，为导致环境，能源和社会可持续性的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。 在SEES研究员的支持下，该项目将使一个有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续发展相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的地位。