SRN: Integrated Urban Infrastructure Solutions for Environmentally Sustainable, Healthy and Livable Cities.

SRN：环境可持续、健康和宜居城市的综合城市基础设施解决方案。

• 批准号: 1444745
• 负责人: Anu Ramaswami
• 金额: $ 1200万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1444745&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SRN; Integrated; Urban; Infrastructure; Solutions

1444745 (Ramaswami)Several hundred cities in the US and abroad, including 40 of the world's most populous cities (the C40 cities) have announced goals that include environmental sustainability, health, climate-resiliency and livability. Engineered infrastructures - defined broadly to include the seven key sectors that provide water, energy, food, sanitation/waste management, transportation (connectivity and access) and public spaces to more than half the world's people living in cities today - are essential in achieving these multi-faceted societal goals. Increasingly, cities are exploring the proposition that movement from large centralized systems toward local or distributed infrastructure, combined with changes in user-behavior and corresponding changes in institutions and policy in all the above sectors - is a critical pathway in achieving the triple goals of environment, health and livability (EHL goals). However, this proposition has never been verified on the ground due to three key gaps in the science of developing EHL focused cities, namely: (i) lack of standard metrics for monitoring EHL urban outcomes; (ii) lack of understanding of the role of social actors - across multiple scales from the household to city/ regional government - in the adoption and stewardship of distributed infrastructure solutions, and (iii) lack of dynamic urban models that can represent the EHL outcomes associated with distributed infrastructure systems and explore city futures. This SRN will bring together a network of universities, cities and industry partners who, jointly, will co-develop the science of sustainability, practical knowledge and policy innovations that will enable urban infrastructure transformation toward environmentally-sustainable, healthy and livable (EHL) cities. Three primary research thrusts will support this transformation of urban infrastructure. Theme 1 of the SRN will develop the science of integrated measurement of environmental sustainability, health and livability (EHL), capturing linkages, synergies and trade-offs, considering human-environment interactions with all the seven infrastructure sectors together. Theme 2 of the SRN will develop new principles for designing integrated social-infrastructural solutions, with engineering and social science fully assimilated across home-, neighborhood- and city-regional scales, drawing upon innovative field experiments underway in the SRN cities (7 U.S. and 4 Asian) linked with test beds in SRN research labs. Finally, Theme 3 will operationalize the new knowledge created in Themes 1 and 2, to describe the dynamic interactions between natural systems, urban design, infrastructures and people in a democratized simulation environment, which expands upon a platform used by cities across the globe to allow multiple stakeholders to explore city futures with distributed infrastructure scenarios based. The SRN will focus on linking research and education with concrete actions in SRN partner cities. By closely working with community, government and industry collaborators, the SRN will operationalize the Network's findings well beyond a research setting, enabling real-world impact. The SRN's focus on the role of distributed infrastructure in urban sustainability and the large data base the SRN will develop as part of the Theme 2 will pave the way for future research endeavors in urban sustainability. Among the SRN's outreach, training and education foci are: (i) training of Public Officials on design and implementation of coupled social-infrastructural solution through collaborations with our partner cities, and nationally- the National League of Cities, City Managers Association; (ii) a Summer REU program that engages Native Indian Students from a network of 6 Tribal Colleges - from the undergraduate level to graduate degrees, and (iii) an innovative interdisciplinary summer school on Integrated Infrastructure Solutions for Sustainable, Healthy and Livable Cities- for students at all 9 SRN Universities, connecting environmental sciences, infrastructure engineering, urban planning, social sciences, public affairs, and public health.

1444745 (Ramaswami)美国和国外的数百个城市，包括世界上人口最多的 40 个城市（C40 城市）已经宣布了包括环境可持续性、健康、气候适应力和宜居性在内的目标。工程基础设施——广义上包括为当今世界一半以上居住在城市的人们提供水、能源、食品、卫生/废物管理、交通（连通性和可达性）和公共空间的七个关键部门——对于实现这些多方面的社会目标至关重要。越来越多的城市正在探索这样一个主张：从大型集中式系统转向本地或分布式基础设施，再加上用户行为的变化以及所有上述部门的机构和政策的相应变化，是实现环境、健康和宜居三重目标（EHL 目标）的关键途径。然而，由于发展以 EHL 为重点的城市的三个关键科学差距，这一主张从未得到实地验证，即：(i) 缺乏监测 EHL 城市成果的标准指标； (ii) 对从家庭到城市/地区政府等多个层面的社会参与者在分布式基础设施解决方案的采用和管理中的作用缺乏了解，以及 (iii) 缺乏能够代表与分布式基础设施系统相关的 EHL 结果并探索城市未来的动态城市模型。该 SRN 将汇集大学、城市和行业合作伙伴网络，共同开发可持续发展科学、实践知识和政策创新，使城市基础设施向环境可持续、健康宜居 (EHL) 城市转型。三个主要研究方向将支持城市基础设施的转型。 SRN 的主题 1 将发展环境可持续性、健康和宜居性 (EHL) 综合衡量科学，捕捉联系、协同作用和权衡，同时考虑人类与环境与所有七个基础设施部门的相互作用。 SRN 的主题 2 将制定设计综合社会基础设施解决方案的新原则，利用在 SRN 城市（7 个美国和 4 个亚洲）与 SRN 研究实验室的测试台相连的创新现场实验，在家庭、社区和城市区域尺度上充分吸收工程和社会科学。最后，主题3将运用主题1和2中创建的新知识，描述民主化模拟环境中自然系统、城市设计、基础设施和人之间的动态相互作用，该环境扩展了全球城市使用的平台，允许多个利益相关者基于分布式基础设施场景探索城市未来。 SRN 将专注于将研究和教育与 SRN 伙伴城市的具体行动联系起来。通过与社区、政府和行业合作者密切合作，SRN 将在研究环境之外运用该网络的发现，从而产生现实世界的影响。 SRN 重点关注分布式基础设施在城市可持续发展中的作用，以及 SRN 将作为主题 2 的一部分开发的大数据库，将为未来城市可持续发展的研究工作铺平道路。 SRN 的外展、培训和教育重点包括： (i) 通过与我们的伙伴城市以及全国城市联盟、城市管理者协会合作，对公职人员进行关于设计和实施耦合社会基础设施解决方案的培训； (ii) 暑期 REU 项目，吸引来自 6 所部落学院网络的印第安原住民学生 - 从本科水平到研究生学位，以及 (iii) 为所有 9 所 SRN 大学的学生开设可持续、健康和宜居城市综合基础设施解决方案的创新跨学科暑期学校，将环境科学、基础设施工程、城市规划、社会科学、公共事务和公共领域联系起来 健康。