Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Southern Africa's Hydro-Economy and Water Security: SAHEWS

贝尔蒙特论坛-G8 倡议合作研究：南部非洲的水利经济和水安全：SAHEWS

• 批准号: 1342742
• 负责人: Claudia Ringler
• 金额: $ 25.2万
• 依托单位: International Food Policy Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1342742&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; G8; Initiative; Collaborative

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 13-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum and the G8 countries Heads of Research Councils. The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. The G8 Heads of Research Councils developed a funding framework to support multilateral research projects that address global challenges in ways that are beyond the capacity of national or bilateral activities. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in an inaugural call of the International Opportunities Fund, the Belmont Forum and G8HORCs have provided support for research projects that seek to deliver knowledge needed for action to mitigate and adapt to detrimental environmental change and extreme hazardous events that relate to either Freshwater Security or Coastal Vulnerability. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). This award supports research activities that will address important knowledge gaps in water supply, demand and sharing, and in the application of research to the effective management of freshwater security in Southern Africa. Numerous challenges including population growth, drought-induced food shortages, increasing energy demands and a variable climate interact to make Southern Africa especially sensitive to freshwater security threats. Adding to these challenges is a lack of institutional and policy instruments for equitable and sustainable management of supply and demand in the broader hydro-economy. This project will integrate an understanding of short to medium term hydro-meteorological variability and its socioeconomic consequences to develop approaches for improved regional water resources management. Researchers will develop an improved understanding of hydro-meteorological variability and human-environmental interactions to characterize how this variability affects the regional hydro-economy. This will be achieved through careful case study and co-designed research and facilitated high level knowledge exchange. This project will contribute an improved understanding of the global climate-water-food-energy nexus to support decision making and equitable and sustainable freshwater management.

该奖项为参与一个项目的美国研究人员提供支持，该项目由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）和八国集团（G8）国家研究首长理事会（Heads of research council）通过13国全球变化研究计划竞争性地选出。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个世界性的高层组织。全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的主要和新兴资助者。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速进行最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。八国集团研究理事会负责人制定了一个资助框架，以支持以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式应对全球挑战的多边研究项目。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在国际机会基金的首次呼吁下，贝尔蒙特论坛和g8horc共同努力，为研究项目提供支持，这些项目寻求提供行动所需的知识，以减轻和适应与淡水安全或沿海脆弱性有关的有害环境变化和极端危险事件。该奖项为美国研究人员在联盟中合作提供支持，该联盟由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户（如政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）聚集在一起。该奖项支持的研究活动将解决水供应、需求和共享方面的重要知识差距，并将研究应用于南部非洲淡水安全的有效管理。包括人口增长、干旱导致的粮食短缺、不断增长的能源需求和多变的气候在内的众多挑战相互作用，使南部非洲对淡水安全威胁特别敏感。除了这些挑战之外，还缺乏在更广泛的水电经济中公平和可持续地管理供需的体制和政策工具。该项目将整合对中短期水文气象变率及其社会经济后果的理解，以制定改进区域水资源管理的方法。研究人员将改进对水文气象变率和人类环境相互作用的理解，以描述这种变率如何影响区域水文经济。这将通过仔细的案例研究和共同设计的研究以及促进高层次的知识交流来实现。该项目将有助于增进对全球气候-水-粮食-能源关系的了解，以支持决策和公平、可持续的淡水管理。

项目成果

Water resources transfers through southern African food trade: water efficiency and climate signals

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/1/015005
• 发表时间: 2016-01-01
• 期刊: ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Dalin, Carole;Conway, Declan
• 通讯作者: Conway, Declan