Collaborative Research: Water, Energy, and Food Security in the North: Synergies, tradeoffs, and building community capacity for sustainable futures (Sustainable Futures North)

合作研究：北方的水、能源和粮食安全：协同作用、权衡和可持续未来的社区能力建设（北方可持续未来）

• 批准号: 1262722
• 负责人: Henry Huntington
• 金额: $ 12.83万
• 依托单位: Huntington Consulting
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262722&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Water; Energy; Food

The Sustainable Futures North project addresses the question of whether synergies can be found among the related goals of food security, water security, energy security, and resource development in the North American Arctic. Historically, development in one or more of these areas has presented trade-offs in others; for example, petroleum exploration and development is often associated with negative impacts on traditional subsistence species and practices. Similarly, residents of the Bristol Bay region of Alaska are currently embroiled in a debate over the risks and benefits of developing of a copper and gold mine, which would ostensibly provide jobs and economic development opportunities, at the headwaters of a watershed that supports the world?s largest sockeye salmon run. With an eye toward eliciting best practices for community development and resource management that target synergies rather than trade-offs, we plan to combine integrated regional assessments of water, food, and energy systems in three regions of the North: Bristol Bay (Alaska), Baffin Island (Canada), and Kotzebue Sound (Alaska), where people and communities share a variety of challenges relating to climate change, socioeconomic change, and industrial development. The research methods that make up our interdisciplinary toolkit include key informant interviews, integration and analysis of secondary datasets, climate change downscaling, engineering best practice and gap analysis, and rural-urban network analysis. We will link these qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore cause-and-effect relationships between development activities and societal and environmental changes, and will integrate social and ecological datasets with climate change scenarios to project future community responses to climatic and environmental change. The findings of this research will inform a collaborative education and outreach program designed to build capacity through workforce development, STEM internships, and post-secondary curricula and programs in environmental management and engineering.

可持续的期货北部项目解决了一个问题，即在北美北极的粮食安全，水安全，能源安全和资源开发的相关目标中是否可以找到协同效应。从历史上看，这些领域的一个或多个发展中的发展已经在其他领域进行了权衡。例如，石油探索和开发通常与对传统生存物种和实践的负面影响有关。同样，阿拉斯加布里斯托尔湾地区的居民目前也卷入了有关开发铜和金矿的风险和利益的辩论，表面上将提供就业和经济发展机会，在支持世界上最大的Sockeye Salmon跑步的分水岭。为了引起针对协同而不是权衡的社区发展和资源管理的最佳实践，我们计划结合北部三个地区的水，食物和能源系统的综合区域评估：布里斯托尔湾（阿拉斯加），巴芬岛（加拿大），加拿大岛（加拿大）和Kotzebue Sound（Alaska）（Alaska）（Alaska）（Alaska），在这些地区和社区中，人们和社区都会改变各种各样的发展，以融合各种各样的变化。组成我们跨学科工具包的研究方法包括关键的线人访谈，辅助数据集的集成和分析，气候变化降低范围，工程最佳实践和差距分析以及农村城市网络分析。我们将将这些定性和定量研究方法联系起来，以探索发展活动与社会和环境变化之间的因果关系，并将社会和生态数据集与气候变化情景相结合，以将未来的社区对气候和环境变化的反应投影。这项研究的结果将为合作教育和外展计划提供旨在通过劳动力开发，STEM实习以及在环境管理和工程学中的专上课程以及计划来建立能力的信息。