Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collabrative Research: Transformation and Resilience on Urban Coasts

贝尔蒙特论坛-G8倡议合作研究：城市海岸的转型和恢复力

• 批准号: 1342966
• 负责人: William Solecki
• 金额: $ 30.87万
• 依托单位: CUNY Hunter College
• 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 2018-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1342966&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; G8; Initiative; Collabrative

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 develop and test a novel integrated framework to examine the interactions between development pathways, socio-environmental systems and policy decision-making in coping with extreme events, such as heat waves and flooding, that are associated with large scale coastal urbanization. Historical transformations have facilitated resilience through the construction of critical urban infrastructures, such as for water and sanitation and air quality. Other more limited changes, such as in social care, have also further facilitated resilience. Integrating lessons learned from the interaction of biophysical, social, and policy dynamics in past transformations and changes is critical to understanding and assessing stress points, thresholds and policies at which urban resilience can change and the implications of these changes for societies. This project will (1) conceptualize resilience, transition and transformation for urban sustainability and security; (2) develop and test an integrated approach for biophysical and social vulnerability assessment; and (3) provide a platform for stakeholders, researchers, and students to interact and contribute to a collective understanding of urban development and risk management priorities and approaches. Case studies in five coastal megacities, including Kolkata, Lagos, London, New York, and Tokyo will be used to test conceptual models and methodological development. This project will contribute toward understanding pathways and trade-offs through which interactions constrain or open opportunities for resilience or transformation of urban systems.

该奖项为参与由 13 个国家的全球变化研究倡议通过贝尔蒙特论坛和八国集团国家研究委员会负责人竞争性选出的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是由全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的世界主要和新兴资助者组成的高级别团体。 它旨在通过调整和调动国际资源，加速开展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首脑制定了一个资助框架，以支持多边研究项目，以超出国家或双边活动能力的方式应对全球挑战。每个伙伴国家都在一个联盟内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨境资金的需求。 这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持最好通过多国方法解决的全球相关主题的优秀研究，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中，贝尔蒙特论坛和 G8HORC 共同为研究项目提供了支持，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相关的有害环境变化和极端危险事件。 漏洞。 该奖项为美国研究人员在联盟中进行合作提供支持，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（例如政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）聚集在一起。 该奖项支持研究活动，开发和测试一个新颖的综合框架，以研究发展路径、社会环境系统和政策决策之间的相互作用，以应对与大规模沿海城市化相关的极端事件，例如热浪和洪水。历史变革通过建设重要的城市基础设施（例如水、卫生设施和空气质量）增强了抵御能力。其他更有限的变化，例如社会关怀方面的变化，也进一步促进了复原力。整合从过去转型和变化中生物物理、社会和政策动态相互作用中吸取的经验教训，对于理解和评估城市韧性可以改变的压力点、阈值和政策以及这些变化对社会的影响至关重要。 该项目将 (1) 概念化城市可持续性和安全的复原力、转型和转型； (2) 开发并测试生物物理和社会脆弱性评估的综合方法； (3) 为利益相关者、研究人员和学生提供一个互动平台，促进对城市发展和风险管理优先事项和方法的集体理解。加尔各答、拉各斯、伦敦、纽约和东京等五个沿海大城市的案例研究将用于测试概念模型和方法开发。该项目将有助于理解相互作用限制或开放城市系统复原力或转型机会的路径和权衡。