FEW: Conference on Environmental Change, Migration, and the Resilience of Regional Food, Water, and Energy Systems

区域范围的粮食、能源和水系统之间的相互依赖性日益受到关注，特别是鉴于最近的自然灾害揭示了支持社区基本需求的基础设施和资源中隐藏的脆弱性。许多科学工作的重点是了解和提高干旱地区或极端贫困地区等特别脆弱地区的少数水资源系统的复原力。 在水资源丰富的地区，如美国中西部，一个高产的农业地区，了解FEW系统的弹性的工作要少得多。随着极端天气事件、沿海洪水和干旱的频繁发生，美国中西部等不太脆弱的地区可能会经历人口增长，部分原因是环境流离失所者的迁入。 这种迁移将通过改变居民的社会经济分布和该地区的工业结构，增加各种土地使用之间的竞争，并加剧对水质和其他生态系统服务的影响，增加对区域少数水系统的压力。考虑到水资源丰富地区少数水系统的重要性，（当地气候变化）和间接气候变化对这些地区的影响至关重要。俄亥俄州州立大学将举办为期两天的会议，调查气候和环境变化对非沿海地区区域FEW系统恢复力的直接和间接影响的影响，水资源丰富的地区，如美国中西部。会议将侧重于确定进一步了解区域FEW系统所需的基础科学和理论，重点是生物物理，经济和社会系统之间的动态耦合。会议的目标是确定跨学科研究的优先事项，这将有助于提高现有FEW系统基础设施和资源可能会因此类迁移以及温度升高和气候变化的直接影响而承受重大压力的地区的复原力和适应能力。计划举行的会议将审查：（a）移徙作为对气候变化的一种适应性反应;（B）生态系统服务和复原力的自然和人工资本;（c）资源复原力的技术和创新;（d）社区复原力的社会和文化方面;（e）区域可持续性和复原力评估的模型和数据。会议将邀请大约50名杰出的研究人员和地方、州和联邦政府机构的代表参加一系列便利的互动会议，讨论当前的知识状况和决策者的需求，他们正在努力应对越来越多的限制条件下的能力建设挑战。会议的结果将被合成为一个路线图，用于在可能对人口增长和变化至关重要的地区开发具有弹性和可持续性的FEW系统所需的研究。

The interdependence among regional-scale food, energy, and water (FEW) systems has gained increasing attention, especially in light of recent natural disasters that have revealed hidden vulnerabilities in the infrastructures and resources supporting basic community needs. Much scientific effort has been focused on understanding and improving the resilience of FEW systems in particularly vulnerable regions, such as arid regions or areas of extreme poverty. Significantly less work has been done to understand the resilience of FEW systems in areas of water abundance, such as the U.S. Midwest, a highly productive agricultural region. As extreme weather events, coastal flooding, and droughts occur more frequently, less vulnerable regions like the U.S. Midwest will likely experience increases in population driven in part by the in-migration of environmentally displaced people. Such migration will increase stresses on regional FEW systems by altering the socio-economic distribution of residents and the industrial mix of the region, increasing competition among various land uses, and exacerbating impacts on water quality and other ecosystem services. Given the importance of FEW systems in water-abundant regions, understanding the interactions between direct (local climate variability) and indirect (in-migration) effects of climate change on such regions is critical.Ohio State University will host a two-day conference to investigate the implications of the direct and indirect effects of climate and environmental change on the resilience of regional FEW systems in non-coastal, water-abundant regions such as the U.S. Midwest. The conference will focus on identifying the basic science and theory that are needed to further understanding of regional FEW systems with an emphasis on the dynamic coupling among biophysical, economic, and social systems. The objective of the conference is to identify priorities for interdisciplinary research that will help to enhance the resilience and adaptive capacity of regions where existing FEW system infrastructures and resources may experience significant pressures due to such migrations coupled with the direct effects of increasing temperature and climate variability. Sessions are planned to examine (a) migration as an adaptive response to climate change; (b) natural and built capital for ecosystem services and resilience; (c) technology and innovation for resource resilience; (d) social and cultural aspects of community resilience; and (e) models and data for regional sustainability and resilience assessment. The conference will engage approximately 50 prominent researchers and representatives of local, state, and federal government agencies, in a series of facilitated, interactive sessions to discuss the current state of knowledge and the needs of decision-makers who are grappling with the challenges of capacity-building under increasing constraints. The results of the conference will be synthesized into a roadmap for the research needed to develop resilient and sustainable FEW systems in regions that may become critically important to a growing and shifting human population.