FEW: River FEWs: Workshop to explore the nexus between food, energy and water in a large international river system ; University of Washington; September, 2015

FEW：河流 FEW：探讨大型国际河流系统中食物、能源和水之间关系的研讨会；

• 批准号: 1541694
• 负责人: Gordon Holtgrieve
• 金额: $ 9.84万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541694&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FEW; River; FEWs; Workshop; explore

This project will convene a three-day workshop to explore natural and social science linkages between food, energy, and water (FEW) systems in large river ecosystems. This workshop will bring together 30-50 persons with scientific and/or policy expertise within one or more elements of the FEWS nexus with the goal of identifying key drivers and linkages, emergent properties, and critical research needs within the context of ecological sustainability. The participants will focus on the Mekong River Basin as an archetypal FEW coupled social-ecological system. More than 60 million people living in the Mekong are highly dependent on the river for food and livelihoods. Wild-caught fish and rice are the primary sources of nutrition, with the productivity of both fisheries and rice agriculture dependent on the natural flood-pulse hydrologic regime. The river is facing potentially large changes to the flood-pulse from mainstream and tributary hydropower development, rapid land use change and climate change. The economic benefits of new energy are expected to be substantial, but the social and environmental impacts are at present poorly understood. Fisheries/agriculture, hydrologic dynamics, and hydropower therefore form the food, water, and energy trilemma in the Mekong and are linked in both space and time. The results of this workshop will create a foundation for understanding the interconnected and interdependent nature of FEW dynamics in the Mekong and other river ecosystems. The project will support both education and diversity by enhancing the scientific capacity of Mekong scientists and underrepresented groups.Large river ecosystems provide numerous and dynamic ecosystem goods and services to people. Despite a general understanding of the types of goods and services derived from rivers and a widespread recognition of their social and economic benefit, there is a distinct lack of conceptual and quantitative frameworks for evaluating the physical, biological, and social dynamics that create ecosystem services and livelihoods. As such, there is limited ability to understand impacts from ecosystem change and to evaluate tradeoffs. This workshop will begin to address these limitations by: 1) developing a conceptual model of how multiple physical, social, and ecological processes connect and structure FEW systems in large rivers; 2) within this framework identify key linkages and flows for maintaining sustainability; 3) evaluate currently available data and capacity for quantifying these processes; and 4) identify key future research needs for addressing research conceptual and data gaps. The principal investigators have identified an initial set of 60 potential invitees, including international representation from a range of institutions active in the Mekong region. These include academic, governmental (US and Mekong), intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. The investigators intend to invite 50-70 participants expecting 30-35 to attend with greater than 40% participation by women and underrepresented minorities. Specific products will include a white paper and journal article describing the current status and frontier of Food Water Energy research in rivers, as well as digital archiving. Development of new collaborations to address critical research questions is a specific goal of the workshop and is strongly anticipated. The broader impacts will include direct engagement of Mekong scientists and policy stakeholders from governmental and non-governmental institutions in all aspect of the workshop to ensure that outcomes are relevant to stakeholder needs and available for uptake in the decision making process. All products from the workshop will be made feely available via the project website, the Mekong portal at the University of Washington, mekong.uw.edu, and through the Florida State University Mekong portal at coss.fsu.edu/mekong. This research will contribute to improved scientific capacity in the region through participation of Mekong scientists in the workshop planning, execution, and publication of workshop outputs.

该项目将召开一个为期三天的研讨会，探讨大型河流生态系统中食物、能源和水(少数)系统之间的自然科学和社会科学联系。这次研讨会将汇集30-50名在FEWS关系的一个或多个要素中具有科学和/或政策专业知识的人员，目的是在生态可持续性的背景下确定关键驱动因素和联系、新特性和关键研究需求。与会者将把重点放在湄公河流域这一典型的少有耦合的社会生态系统上。生活在湄公河上的6000多万人高度依赖这条河的食物和生计。野生捕捞的鱼和稻米是主要的营养来源，渔业和稻米农业的生产力都依赖于自然洪水脉冲水文制度。这条河正面临着主流和支流水电开发、快速土地利用变化和气候变化带来的洪水脉动的潜在巨大变化。新能源的经济效益预计将是巨大的，但目前人们对其社会和环境影响知之甚少。因此，渔业/农业、水文动力学和水电构成了湄公河的食物、水和能源三重困境，在空间和时间上都是相互联系的。这次研讨会的成果将为理解湄公河和其他河流生态系统中少数动态相互关联和相互依存的性质奠定基础。该项目将通过加强湄公河科学家和未被充分代表的群体的科学能力来支持教育和多样性。大型河流生态系统为人们提供大量和有活力的生态系统商品和服务。尽管人们对来自河流的商品和服务的类型有了普遍的了解，对其社会和经济效益也有了广泛的认识，但在评估创造生态系统服务和生计的物理、生物和社会动态方面明显缺乏概念和量化框架。因此，了解生态系统变化的影响和评估权衡的能力有限。本研讨会将通过以下方式着手解决这些限制：1)开发一个概念模型，说明多个物理、社会和生态过程如何连接和构建大河流中的少数系统；2)在这个框架内确定维持可持续性的关键联系和流动；3)评估目前可用于量化这些过程的数据和能力；以及4)确定未来关键的研究需求，以解决研究概念和数据差距。主要调查人员已经确定了最初的60名潜在受邀者，包括来自湄公河地区活跃的一系列机构的国际代表。这些组织包括学术、政府组织(美国和湄公河)、政府间组织和非政府组织。调查人员打算邀请50-70名参与者，预计30-35人参加，妇女和代表性不足的少数族裔参与的比例超过40%。具体产品将包括一份白皮书和一篇期刊文章，描述河流食品水能研究的现状和前沿，以及数字存档。发展新的合作以解决关键的研究问题是研讨会的一个具体目标，并受到强烈的期待。更广泛的影响将包括湄公河科学家和来自政府和非政府机构的政策利益攸关方直接参与研讨会的所有方面，以确保成果与利益攸关方的需要相关，并可供决策进程采纳。研讨会的所有产品都将通过项目网站、华盛顿大学湄公河门户网站mekong.uw.edu和佛罗里达州立大学湄公河门户网站Coss.fsu.edu/MeKong提供。这项研究将通过湄公河科学家参与讲习班的规划、执行和讲习班成果的出版，促进提高该区域的科学能力。

项目成果

Maintaining perspective of ongoing environmental change in the Mekong floodplains

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.01.002
• 发表时间: 2019-04-01
• 期刊: CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
• 影响因子: 7.2
• 作者: Arias, Mauricio E.;Holtgrieve, Gordon W.;Piman, Thanapon
• 通讯作者: Piman, Thanapon