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.

该项目将召集为期三天的研讨会，以探索大型河流生态系统中食品，能源和水（少量）系统之间的自然和社会科学联系。 该研讨会将在几个纽带的一个或多个要素中召集30至50人，具有科学和/或政策专业知识，目的是在生态可持续性的背景下确定关键的驱动力和联系，新兴的财产以及关键的研究需求。 参与者将专注于湄公河盆地，这是一种原型的少数耦合的社会生态系统。居住在湄公河中的超过6000万人高度依赖河流的食物和生计。 野生鱼类和大米是营养的主要来源，渔业和水稻农业的生产力取决于天然的洪水水文制度。 这条河正面临主流和支流水力发电，快速土地使用变化和气候变化的洪水泛滥的大规模变化。 预计新能源的经济利益将是可观的，但是目前的社会和环境影响尚未理解。 因此，渔业/农业，水文动力学和水力发电在湄公河中形成食物，水和能量三元素，并在时空和时间上均连接。 该研讨会的结果将为理解湄公河和其他河流生态系统中很少动态的相互联系和相互依存的本质创造基础。 该项目将通过增强湄公河科学家和代表性不足的群体的科学能力来支持教育和多样性。LargeRiver生态系统为人们提供了许多动态的生态系统商品和服务。 尽管对从河流中衍生的商品和服务的类型有所了解，并且对其社会和经济利益有了广泛的认可，但对于评估创造生态系统服务和生计的物理，生物学和社会动态的概念和定量框架也很明显缺乏。 因此，了解生态系统变化的影响并评估权衡的能力有限。 该研讨会将通过以下方式开始解决这些局限性：1）开发一个概念模型，即多个物理，社会和生态过程如何在大河流中连接和构造很少的系统； 2）在此框架内确定关键的联系和流动以维持可持续性； 3）评估当前可用的数据和量化这些过程的能力； 4）确定解决研究概念和数据差距的关键研究需求。首席研究人员已经确定了最初的60个潜在邀请人，包括来自湄公河地区的一系列机构的国际代表。其中包括学术，政府（美国和湄公河），政府间和非政府组织。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群体的参与度超过40％。特定产品将包括一份白皮书和期刊文章，描述了河流中食品水能研究的现状和前沿以及数字归档。 开发新的合作来解决关键研究问题是研讨会的特定目标，并且是有着预料的。更广泛的影响将包括湄公河科学家和政策利益相关者在研讨会各个方面的政府和非政府机构的政策利益相关者，以确保结果与利益相关者的需求有关，并可以在决策过程中吸收。 车间的所有产品都将通过项目网站，华盛顿大学的Mekong.uw.edu大学的湄公河门户以及佛罗里达州立大学Mekong Portal的coss.fsu.edu/mekong提供。 这项研究将通过湄公河科学家参与研讨会计划，执行和发表研讨会成果的参与，从而提高该地区的科学能力。

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