INFEWS/T1: Increasing regional to global-scale resilience in Food-Energy-Water systems through coordinated management,technology and institutions

对粮食、能源和水（FEW）安全以及增强抵御未来干扰和冲击的能力（即复原力）的关注要求对这些相互关联的资源进行仔细管理。该项目以哥伦比亚河流域（CRB）为中心，包括美国太平洋西北部七个州的部分地区和加拿大的一部分。由于土地利用和人口的快速变化、气候变率以及物理、生物和人类系统之间复杂的相互作用，该项目将开发针对FEW系统的复原力评估。然后，这种理解可以用于从国家和国际角度评估与CRB相关的治理和政策挑战。在整个项目中与利益相关者的接触将提供信息，说明哪些管理策略在现有的政治和社会文化机构中是可行的，以及机构的哪些方面可以放松或改革，以实现创新和更大的复原力。了解食物-能源-水（FEW）系统内部的相互依赖关系对于维持FEW的安全至关重要。需要制定策略来提高FEW系统在多个空间和时间尺度上的整体弹性。本项目考察了以下假设：跨三个部门对物理（如水库、含水层和电池）和非物理（如水市场、社会资本和保险市场）存储系统的协调管理可以提高弹性。总体目标是检查有效的策略，以便在集成的FEW系统之间相互平衡利益并增加弹性。该项目将为FEW系统开发一个可转移的框架，包括1)描述该地区可推广到国家和全球尺度的FEW系统的理论基础；2)整合最先进的计算模型以捕获FEW系统的相互作用；3)使用建模平台识别辅助效益或意外后果。4)利用利益相关者的双向参与来制定新的战略并消除采用新的协调实践的障碍。

Concerns over food, energy and water (FEW) security and an enhanced ability to withstand future disturbances and shocks (i.e., resilience) require careful management of these coupled resources. This project is centered on the Columbia River Basin (CRB) comprising portions of seven states in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and a portion of Canada. The project will develop a resilience assessment facing the FEW systems as a result of rapid changes in land use and human populations, climate variability, and the complex interactions between physical, biological, and human systems. This understanding can then be used to assess the governance and policy challenges associated with the CRB from both national and international perspectives. Engagement with stakeholders throughout the project will provide information on which management strategies are feasible within existing political and socio-cultural institutions, and what aspects of institutions might be relaxed or reformed to enable innovations and greater resilience.Understanding interdependencies within the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) system is critical to maintain FEW security. Strategies are needed to increase the overall resilience of FEW systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales. This project examines the hypothesis that coordinated management of physical (e.g., reservoirs, aquifers, and batteries) and non-physical (e.g., water markets, social capital, and insurance markets) storage systems across the three sectors promotes resilience. The overarching goal is to examine effective strategies to mutually balance benefits and increase resilience across integrated FEW systems. The project will develop a transferable framework for FEW systems involving 1) a theoretical foundation characterizing the region's FEW system that is generalizable to national and global scales, 2) integration of state-of-the-science computational models to capture FEW system interactions, 3) identification of ancillary benefits or unintended consequences using the modeling platforms, and 4) utilization of a two-way stakeholder engagement to develop new strategies and remove barriers to adoption of new coordinated practices.