INFEWS/T3: Social-ecological-technological solutions to waste reuse in food, energy, and water systems (ReFEWS)

INFEWS/T3：食品、能源和水系统废物再利用的社会生态技术解决方案 (ReFEWS)

• 批准号: 1639524
• 负责人: Lilian Alessa
• 金额: $ 269.82万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1639524&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: INFEWS; T3; Social; ecological; technological

In a changing world the systems we have traditionally relied on to deliver food, energy and water are now challenged by increasing risks of disruption from climate, extreme events and deteriorating infrastructure. However, advances in our ability to re-use materials and improve the efficiency of their transformation now allow us to develop innovative solutions toward an integrated production landscape for the food, energy and water system (FEWS). This project uses the coupled agricultural landscapes and communities of the Upper Snake River in the American West to measure the use of energy inputs, internal flows, and outputs of the FEWS (including industrial and urban systems) to determine how best to re-claim and re-use matter and energy flows (ReFEWS). Working closely with a Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG), consisting of community, industry and agency mangers, the research team downscales food, energy and water dynamics so as to apply the best reclamation technologies in right place at the right time. The team then models the costs and trade-offs of applying these technologies at the landscape scale. The ReFEWS project is in direct response to national policy goals that seek to create resilient communities and landscapes as a way to promote sustainable food and energy production, and ultimately security. To ensure that the research advances basic science while ensuring translatable products, the research team uses a three tiered system of academic research, stakeholder engagement and coordinated education and outreach.The research characterizes the efficiency of the socio-metabolism of the Upper Snake FEWS by modeling three components: 1. the optimization parameters of nutrient, energy, and water use and reuse; 2. robustness, or the capacity to modify the FEWS through technological intervention under a range of environmental conditions; 3. and resilience, the ability to sustain configurations of FEWS use and reuse in a watershed over time and in changing social and environmental conditions. Using a systems approach, the research incorporates several key components that must be considered concurrently: a. Human behaviors for acquiring matter and energy; i.e., food, energy, and water resources; b. Infrastructure and systems that support those behaviors, including technological interventions; c. thermodynamic principles governing food, energy, and water use and waste (i.e., entropy); d. The flows of nutrients, energy, or water to minimize system entropy; e. The flow of nutrients and energy out of bounded systems in the form of waste streams and, f. The social controls to encourage or enforce behaviors that minimize system entropy. Research question 1 tests the hypothesis that waste and resource streams from food and agricultural production are greater than waste and resource streams for domestic household consumption, and changes to the agro-ecological sector can have the largest influence on the resilience of the overall FEW system. Research question 2 tests the hypothesis that no single technology is appropriate or sufficient for managing a given waste stream, and integrated recovery systems that account for secondary and tertiary waste products are the most useful for optimizing a FEWS. Research question 3 tests the hypothesis that constraints on minimizing system entropy and waste are not primarily at the technological interface (i.e., a lack of engineering solutions) but at the adoption/social interface.

在一个不断变化的世界中，我们传统上依赖于提供粮食、能源和水的系统现在受到气候、极端事件和基础设施恶化的破坏风险越来越大的挑战。然而，我们在材料再利用和提高材料转化效率方面的能力不断提高，使我们能够开发创新解决方案，实现食品、能源和水系统（FEWS）的综合生产环境。该项目利用美国西部蛇河上游的农业景观和社区来测量FEWS（包括工业和城市系统）的能源投入、内部流量和产出的使用，以确定如何最好地重新要求和重新使用物质和能量流（ReFEWS）。该研究团队与由社区、行业和机构管理人员组成的利益相关者咨询小组（SAG）密切合作，缩小粮食、能源和水动力学的规模，以便在正确的时间在正确的地点应用最佳的复垦技术。然后，该团队对在景观尺度上应用这些技术的成本和权衡进行了建模。ReFEWS项目是对国家政策目标的直接回应，这些目标旨在创造具有复原力的社区和景观，以促进可持续的粮食和能源生产，并最终实现安全。为了确保研究在促进基础科学的同时确保可翻译的产品，研究团队使用了学术研究，利益相关者参与和协调教育和推广的三层系统。研究通过建模三个组成部分来表征上蛇FEWS的社会代谢效率：1.养分、能量和水利用与再利用的优化参数; 2.鲁棒性，或在一系列环境条件下通过技术干预修改FEWS的能力; 3.和复原力，即在一个流域中，随着时间的推移以及在不断变化的社会和环境条件下，维持FEWS使用和再利用配置的能力。使用系统的方法，研究纳入了几个关键组成部分，必须同时考虑：a。人类获取物质和能量的行为;即，食品、能源和水资源; B.支持这些行为的基础设施和系统，包括技术干预;控制食物、能量和水的使用和浪费的热力学原理（即，熵）; d.使系统熵最小化的营养物、能量或水的流动;营养物质和能量以废物流的形式流出有界系统;社会控制，以鼓励或强制的行为，最大限度地减少系统熵。研究问题1检验的假设是，来自粮食和农业生产的废物和资源流大于家庭消费的废物和资源流，农业生态部门的变化对整个少数几个系统的复原力影响最大。研究问题2测试的假设，没有一个单一的技术是适当的或足够的管理一个给定的废物流，综合回收系统，占二次和三次废物产品是最有用的优化FEWS。研究问题3测试了这样一个假设，即最小化系统熵和浪费的约束主要不是在技术界面上（即，缺乏工程解决方案），但在采用/社会界面。

项目成果

Cycling Phosphorus and Nitrogen through Cropping Systems in an Intensive Dairy Production Region

• DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11051005
• 发表时间: 2021-05
• 期刊: Agronomy
• 作者: A. Leytem;P. Williams;S. Zuidema;Audrey M Martinez;Y. Chong;A. Vincent;Aaron Vincent;D. Cronan;A. Kliskey;J. Wulfhorst;L. Alessa;D. Bjorneberg

Land conservation can mitigate freshwater ecosystem services degradation due to climate change in a semiarid catchment: The case of the Portneuf River catchment, Idaho, USA

• DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.260
• 发表时间: 2019-02-15
• 期刊: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
• 影响因子: 9.8
• 作者: Huang, Li;Liao, Felix Haifeng;Baxter, Colden V.
• 通讯作者: Baxter, Colden V.

Contrasting stakeholder and scientist conceptual models of food-energy-water systems: a case study in Magic Valley, Southern Idaho

对比利益相关者和科学家的食物-能源-水系统概念模型：爱达荷州南部魔谷的案例研究

• DOI: 10.18174/sesmo.2020a16312
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling
• 作者: Villamor, Grace B.;Griffith, David L.;Kliskey, Andrew;Alessa, Lilian
• 通讯作者: Alessa, Lilian

Interannual county-level climate-yield relationships for winter wheat on the Columbia Plateau, USA

• DOI: 10.3354/cr01485
• 发表时间: 2017-11
• 期刊: Climate Research
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Wenlong Feng;J. Abatzoglou;J. Hicke;F. Liao

Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research

应用基于地方的社会生态研究解决水资源短缺问题：未来研究的见解

• DOI: 10.3390/su10051516
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Sustainability
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Castro, Antonio;Quintas-Soriano, Cristina;Brandt, Jodi;Atkinson, Carla;Baxter, Colden;Burnham, Morey;Egoh, Benis;García-Llorente, Marina;Julian, Jason;Martín-López, Berta
• 通讯作者: Martín-López, Berta