Coupled Production-Consumption Systems for Climate Change Mitigation: Designing Equitable Food, Energy, and Water Conservation Strategies

1541816 (Watkins)。本次研讨会将汇集来自广泛学科的专家，以改进对粮食、能源和水耦合生产-消费系统的理解和管理为基础，确定减缓气候变化的战略。重点是基于“少数”保护战略的气候变化缓解，并提出以下总体研究问题：我们如何才能最好地设计“少数”保护战略，以减少温室气体排放，避免对个别“少数”部门和环境造成意想不到的后果，使“少数”生产者在财务上可行，并为“少数”消费者所接受？在FEW生产端，需要数据和模型来量化和预测资源使用、温室气体排放以及与满足FEW安全目标的替代方案相关的成本。然而，也有必要认识到，这些目标不是事先定义的，而是基于人类的目标和行为，这些目标和行为是复杂的、异构的，并且随着新信息和替代方案的出现而不断发展。虽然分析社会生态系统的可持续性的技术水平不断提高（例如，复原力），但这些概念还没有应用于少数联系。为了将这一重要方面加入到少数民族关系对话中，本次讲习班将侧重于减少消费和制定考虑到内生社会经济反馈的综合气候变化缓解-适应战略。需要一种综合的减缓-适应方法，因为减缓气候变化的土地、能源和水管理战略必须考虑到在当前温室气体水平下已经发生的变化。此外，向可持续消费的转变将需要了解少数生产系统可能受到的影响。讲习班的成果将通过一份白皮书和一篇确定基于耦合生产-消费系统方法的少数资源保护战略的关键研究前沿的文章广泛传播。

1541816 (Watkins). This workshop will bring together experts from a broad range of disciplines to identify climate change mitigation strategies based on improved understanding and management of coupled food, energy and water (FEW) production-consumption systems. The focus is on climate change mitigation based on FEW conservation strategies, with the following overarching research question: How can we best design FEW conservation strategies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, avoid unintended consequences to individual FEW sectors and the environment, be financially viable for FEW producers, and be acceptable to FEW consumers? On the FEW production side, data and models are needed to quantify and predict resource use, greenhouse gas emissions, and costs associated with alternatives for meeting FEW security goals. However, there is also a need to recognize that these goals are not defined ex ante, but rather are based on human goals and behaviors which are complex, heterogeneous, and continuously evolve as new information and alternatives become available. While the state of the art in analyzing sustainability of socio-ecological systems continues to advance (e.g., resiliency), these concepts have not been brought to bear on the FEW nexus. To add this important dimension to the FEW nexus dialogue, this workshop will focus on reducing consumption and developing integrated climate change mitigation-adaptation strategies accounting for endogenous socio-economic feedbacks. An integrated mitigation-adaptation approach is needed because land, energy, and water management strategies for climate change mitigation must account for changes that will already occur given current greenhouse gas levels. Furthermore, moving towards sustainable consumption will require understanding of how FEW production systems may be affected. Workshop outcomes will be widely disseminated through a white paper and Eos article identifying critical research frontiers for FEW conservation strategies based on a coupled production-consumption systems approach.