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

SRN：城市水创新网络（U-WIN）：向可持续城市水系统过渡

• 批准号: 1444758
• 负责人: Mazdak Arabi
• 金额: $ 1200万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 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 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1444758&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SRN; Urban; Water; Innovation; Network

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.

1444758 Arabithe美国是世界上城市化最多的国家之一，其中80％以上的人口居住在城市中。依靠水是为什么美国人对水威胁的关注比对任何其他环境问题更加关注威胁的原因，以及为什么几乎一半的美国人都担心水的原因。城市水连接了耦合的天然系统，并支撑着从小城镇到大区域的所有人类定居点的长期健康和韧性。确实，所有人类的生命都取决于水。城市供水系统的复杂性违反了stovepipe的思维，并且需要以城市水为重点的可持续性研究网络中提出的系统方法。该网络将14个​​机构的观点和资源联系起来，每个机构都在水研究和教育方面具有长期的计划，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，该网络的使命是促进基本知识，建立能力以及寻找促进可持续城市水系统的技术和行为解决方案所需的基本知识和锻造协作。该网络寻求实现与包容性，公平和可持续城市发展一致的广泛采用的解决方案。城市可持续性取决于足够数量和质量的水供应，以满足社会经济部门和生态系统的需求。维持城市还要求供水系统能够抵御洪水，极端天气事件和气候变化。城市以及其他压力所产生的水污染，消费和洪水可能威胁到本地和全球发展所必需的自然，社会和经济资产。城市供水系统从自然水资源和生态系统中汲取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。这些基础架构及其影响是由一组零散的机构管理的，这些机构面临着动员系统组织和管理的集体行动的挑战。因此，PIS提出了一个可持续性研究网络，城市水创新网络（U-WIN），重点是城市供水系统，以在研究人员，教育工作者，管理人员，决策者和利益相关者之间建立合作，这对于解决这些复杂的，交织的，交织的，交织的系统固有的核心挑战至关重要。 U获胜的使命是提高基本知识，建立能力和锻造协作，以找到促进可持续城市水系统的技术和行为解决方案。 PI将寻求与包容，公平和可持续的城市发展一致的广泛采用的解决方案。 PI将遵循一项自适应和综合研究，教育和外展计划，该计划有助于利益相关者参与，以评估与可持续解决方案相关的可行性，影响和权衡。该过程将在城市规划和设计中协同使用水协同使用最大收益。该过程将在城市规划和设计中协同使用水协同使用最大收益。 PI将与城市可持续发展董事网络（USDN）（http://usdn.org）合作，其中包括100多名代表美国和加拿大城市的地方政府专业人员，拥有约5000万居民，NetWerc H2O（www.netwerch2o.eu）将有助于通过与50个跨越50个社区的纽带实现我们的目标。 Netwerc H2O是欧洲市政和区域政府的协会，促进可持续水管理实践。受到城市供水系统面临的这些挑战的激励，PI已为U-Win Network制定了以下研究目标。 1。通过创建一个概念框架来定义跨地区可持续城市水系统的基本特征来开发国家城市水管理蓝图； 2。表征城市发展模式与影响耦合天然人类水系统可持续性的自然/社会经济过程之间的相互作用和反馈； 3.确定可持续的技术，社会经济和管理城市水溶液，以减少压力，增强韧性并最大程度地提高其他部门的共同利益，并衡量其在时间和空间之间的影响和权衡； 4.探索和解释成功过渡到美国大都市地区可持续城市水系统所需的系统机构框架，鉴于社会水部门的多样性，该网络将采用多方面的方法来确保其城市水可持续性的长期可行性。该网络的一个优势是调查人员在所有14个机构与当地社区，州和联邦机构以及国家非政府组织的牢固联系。 PI打算利用这些合作来建立持续的关系，这些关系可以变成宝贵的研究和教育机会。重要的是，网络中涉及的每个机构都致力于探索与院长密切合作制度化网络的选项，研究和教务长的副总裁。此外，PI将充分探索会员资格，团队建设和项目开发机会，城市水可持续发展中心将提供这些成员，以维持整个网络的研究和基础设施支持。最后，PI将探索网络中产品，技术和服务商业化的机会，与美国各地的水技术孵化器实体密切合作