SRN: Urban Water Innovation Network (U-WIN): Transitioning Toward Sustainable Urban Water Systems

1444758阿拉伯美国是世界上城市化程度最高的国家之一，超过80%的人口居住在城市。根据2012年盖洛普（Gallup）的一项环境问题民意调查，对水的依赖是美国人对水资源威胁的担忧超过其他任何环境问题的原因，也是近一半美国人对水资源非常担忧的原因。城市水连接着相互耦合的自然建成系统，并支撑着从小城镇到大区域的所有人类住区的长期健康和复原力。的确，人类的一切生命都依赖于水。城市水系统的复杂性挑战了烟囱式思维，需要采用专注于城市水的可持续性研究网络中提出的系统方法。该网络将来自14个机构的观点和资源联系起来，每个机构都有长期的水研究和教育计划，并与美国各地的水和城市可持续性利益相关者保持密切联系。该网络的使命是推进基础知识，建设能力，并建立合作，以找到促进可持续城市水系统的技术和行为解决方案。城市可持续性取决于水资源的供应，其数量和质量足以满足社会经济部门和生态系统的需求。城市的可持续发展还需要水系统能够抵御洪水、极端天气事件和气候变化。城市沿着产生的水污染、水消耗和洪水以及其他压力可能威胁到对地方和全球发展至关重要的自然、社会和经济资产。城市水系统利用并影响自然水资源和生态系统城市水系统利用并影响自然水资源和生态系统，并利用庞大而昂贵的基础设施来满足经济，社会和环境需求。这些基础设施及其影响由一组支离破碎的机构管理，这些机构面临着动员集体行动进行系统组织和管理的挑战。因此，PI提出了一个可持续发展研究网络，城市水创新网络（U-WIN），重点是城市水系统，以建立研究人员，教育工作者，管理人员，政策制定者和利益相关者之间的合作，这对于解决这些复杂，交织的系统中固有的核心挑战至关重要。U-WIN的使命将是推进基础知识，建设能力，并建立必要的合作，以找到促进可持续城市供水系统的技术和行为解决方案。PI将寻求符合包容性、公平和可持续城市发展的解决方案。PI将遵循一个适应性和综合性的研究，教育和推广计划，促进利益相关者的参与，以评估与可持续解决方案相关的可行性，影响和权衡。这一进程将从城市规划和设计中协同用水中获得最大效益。这一进程将从城市规划和设计中协同用水中获得最大效益。PI将与城市可持续发展主任网络（USDN）（http：//www.example.com）合作，该网络包括代表美国和加拿大约5000万居民的城市的100多名地方政府专业人员，Netwerc H2O（www.netwerch2o.eu）将通过与全球50多个城市的联系促进实现我们的目标。usdn.org Netwerc H2O是欧洲市政和地区政府促进可持续水管理实践的协会。受城市供水系统面临的这些挑战的激励，PI为U-WIN网络制定了以下研究目标：1。制定国家城市水管理蓝图，建立一个概念框架，界定各区域可持续城市水系统的基本特征; 2.描述城市发展模式与相互关联的自然/社会经济过程之间的相互作用和反馈，这些过程影响耦合的自然-人类水系统的可持续性; 3.确定可持续的技术，社会经济和管理城市水解决方案，以减少压力，提高弹性和最大限度地提高其他部门的共同利益，并衡量其在时间和空间上的影响和权衡; 4.探索和解释所需的系统性制度框架，成功过渡到可持续的城市水系统在大都市地区在美国鉴于社会的水部门的多样性，该网络将采取多方面的方法，以确保其方法的长期可行性，以城市水的可持续性。该网络的优势之一是所有14个机构的调查人员与当地社区、州和联邦机构以及国家非政府组织建立了强有力的联系。PI打算利用这些合作来发展可转化为宝贵的研究和教育机会的持续关系。重要的是，参与该网络的每个机构都致力于与其院长、研究副院长和教务长密切合作，探索使该网络制度化的各种选择。此外，PI将充分探索城市水资源可持续性中心将提供的成员资格，团队建设和项目开发机会，以维持整个网络的研究和基础设施支持。最后，PI将与美国各地区的水技术孵化器实体密切合作，探索网络内开发的产品、技术和服务的商业化机会。

1444758ArabiThe United States is one of the most urbanized nations in the world with more than 80 % of the population residing in cities. Reliance on water is why Americans express greater concern about threats to water than about any other environmental issue and why nearly half of all Americans worry a great deal about water, according to a 2012 Gallup poll of environmental concerns. Urban water connects coupled natural-built systems and underpins the long-term health and resilience of all human settlements, from small towns to mega-regions. Indeed, all human life depends on water. The complexity of urban water systems defies stovepipe thinking and requires the systems approach proposed in the Sustainability Research Network focused on urban water. The network links perspectives and resources from 14 institutions, each with longstanding programs in water research and education, and close ties to water and urban sustainability stakeholders across the U.S. The mission of the network is to advance the fundamental knowledge, build capacity, and forge collaborations needed to find technological and behavioral solutions that promote sustainable urban water systems. The network seeks solutions that achieve widespread adoption consistent with inclusive, equitable and sustainable urban development.Urban sustainability depends on a supply of water in sufficient quantity and quality to meet the needs of socioeconomic sectors and ecosystems. Sustaining cities also requires water systems to be resilient to flooding, extreme weather events, and climate change. Water pollution, consumption, and flooding produced by cities along with other pressures can threaten the natural, social, and economic assets that are essential for local and global development. Urban water systems draw from and impact natural water resources and ecosystems Urban water systems draw from and impact natural water resources and ecosystems and utilize vast and expensive infrastructures to meet economic, social, and environmental needs. These infrastructures, and their effects, are managed by a fragmented set of institutions that is challenged with mobilizing collective action for systems organization and management. Therefore the PIs propose a Sustainability Research Network, Urban Water Innovation Network (U-WIN), focused on urban water systems to forge the collaborations among researchers, educators, managers, policymakers and stakeholders that will be essential to addressing the core challenges inherent in these complex, interwoven systems. The mission of U-WIN will be to advance the fundamental knowledge, build capacity, and forge collaborations needed to find technological and behavioral solutions that promote sustainable urban water systems. The PIs will seek solutions that achieve widespread adoption consistent with inclusive, equitable and sustainable urban development. The PIs will follow an adaptive and integrative research, education and outreach program that facilitates stakeholder engagement in order to assess the feasibility, impacts and tradeoffs associated with sustainable solutions. The process will derive maximum benefits from using water synergistically in urban planning and design. The process will derive maximum benefits from using water synergistically in urban planning and design. The PIs will team with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) (http://usdn.org) includes over 100 local government professionals representing cities across the U.S. and Canada with about 50 million residents, and Netwerc H2O (www.netwerch2o.eu) will facilitate achieving our goals via linkages with more than 50 cities around the world. Netwerc H2O is an association for European municipal and regional governments promoting sustainable water management practices. Motivated by these challenges confronting urban water systems, the PIs have formulated the following research goals for the U-WIN network; 1. Develop a national Urban Water Management Blueprint by creating a conceptual framework that defines the essential characteristics of sustainable urban water systems across regions; 2. Characterize interactions and feedbacks between urban development patterns and the interconnected natural/socioeconomic processes that impact the sustainability of coupled natural-human water systems; 3. Identify sustainable technological, socioeconomic, and management urban water solutions that reduce pressures, enhance resilience and maximize co-benefits in other sectors, and measure their impacts and tradeoffs across time and space; 4. Explore and explain the systemic institutional frameworks required for successful transitions toward sustainable urban water systems in metropolitan regions across the U.S. Given the diverse nature of the water sector of society, the Network will adopt a multi-faceted approach to ensure the long term viability of its approach to urban water sustainability. One strength of the Network is the robust connection of investigators at all 14 institutions with local communities, state and federal agencies and national NGO's. The PIs intend to utilize these collaborations to develop sustained relationships that can turn into valuable research and educational opportunities. Importantly, each institution involved in the Network is committed to exploring options for institutionalizing the network in close collaboration with their deans, vice presidents for research and provosts. Additionally, the PIs will fully explore membership, team building, and project development opportunities that the Urban Water Sustainability Hub will present as a way to sustain research and infrastructure support for the Network as a whole. Finally, the PIs will explore opportunities for commercialization of products, technologies, and services developed within the Network in close collaboration with water technology incubator entities across regions in the U.S.