2017 FEW Nexus Summit: Integrated Science, Engineering, and Policy: a Multi Stakeholder Dialogue

关于整合科学、工程和政策的几个Nexus研讨会：多方利益相关者对话第1部分：非技术描述对能源和食品不断增长的需求清楚地表明，有必要更好地管理我们有限的食物、能源和水资源(仅有的)。农业、能源生产、家庭和工业之间对水的竞争继续加剧，导致水资源短缺和必须解决的权衡问题。虽然水资源短缺可以通过废水回用和海水淡化工厂部分解决，但这些方法和它们的技术对我们土壤的质量和健康带来了不明的威胁，全球30%的淡水储存在土壤中。综合资源管理是这些紧密相连的基本资源的基本工具：必须界定和量化它们之间的相互联系(少数几个关联)，以便能够全面了解因对其管理和使用作出不同选择而产生的权衡。该研讨会将提高未来研究的整合水平，培养国家研究团队，并在为创建食品-能源-水科学共同体而进行的投资基础上再接再厉。它将把少数几个Nexus资源中的领先利益相关者与科学、工程和政策学科的教师聚集在一起，帮助确定替代用途之间的系统级冲突，并在少数Nexus社区的研究议程上提供投入。这将有助于促进科学和工程学科之间的新合作，以便更可持续地管理地方、国家和国际各级的少数资源，以应对社会挑战。第2部分：技术说明。研讨会的总体目标是巩固少数几个Nexus科学共同体，并为少数几个关联生物物理、社会和政策研究创建一个国家平台，以应对少数几个Nexus的主要挑战。讲习班的主要成果之一将是确定新的研究和数据收集方法，以加强纵向研究，对与复原力、脆弱性和降低风险相关的过程进行建模和监测。联结层面的工作组将建立协同研究小组，制定联合的几项研究提案，提交给国家和国际供资机构。这些小组将为科学、政策、技术和教育问题制定一个共同的Nexus路线图，这些问题对于可持续管理少数资源至关重要。这样的路线图对于正确规划和了解有限资源之间的权衡是必不可少的。这一路线图将通过一个可访问的电子门户制定，该门户旨在促进今后与利益攸关方的接触，并将知识转化为行动。它还将成为进一步调查的基础，因为它提供了对由于其实施而产生的新知识的洞察。NEXT NEXUS科学界将提供一个平台，NEXUS社区将从中分享和交流思想，借鉴国际、国家和地方的NEXT NEXNEXE努力，并促进交流思想和发展共享数据和信息的伙伴关系。这将为未来几项Nexus研究奠定基础，并允许公共、私营和科学部门的利益相关者参与研究，为决策和政策制定提供信息。

FEW Nexus Workshop on Integrated Science, Engineering, and Policy: A Multi Stakeholder DialoguePart 1: Non-Technical Description.The growing demands for energy and food make clear the necessity of better management of our limited food, energy, and water (FEW) resources. Competition for water continues to grow among agriculture, energy production, domestic and industrial uses, leading to water shortages and tradeoffs that have to be addressed. While water deficits can be partially met through wastewater reuse and desalination plants, these methods and their technologies carry unclear threats to the quality and health of our soils, wherein 30 percent of global freshwater is stored. Integrated resources management is an essential tool for these tightly interconnected, essential resources: their interlinkages (the FEW Nexus) must be defined and quantified to enable a holistic understanding of the tradeoffs resulting from different choices about their management and use. This workshop will improve the level of integration of future research, foster national research teams, and build on the investments made toward the creation of a Food-Energy-Water community of science. It will bring together leading stakeholders in the FEW resources Nexus with faculty in science, engineering, and policy disciplines to help identify systems-level conflicts among alternative uses and provide input on the research agenda of the FEW Nexus community. This will help foster new cooperation among science and engineering disciplines for more sustainable management of FEW resources at local, national and international levels to address societal challenges.Part 2: Technical Description.The overall workshop goal is the consolidation of a FEW Nexus Community of Science and creation of a national platform for FEW nexus biophysical, social and policy research to address key challenges in the context of the FEW Nexus. Among the primary workshop outcomes will be the identification of new research and data collection approaches to enhance longitudinal research to model and monitor the processes associated with resilience, vulnerability, and risk reduction. Working groups in the nexus dimensions will establish synergistic research teams to develop joint FEW research proposals for submission to national and international funding agencies. These groups will develop a common Nexus roadmap of science, policy, technology, and education issues critical to the sustainable management of FEW resources. Such a road map is essential for the proper planning and understanding of the tradeoffs among FEW resources. This road map will be developed through an accessible e-portal that is designed to facilitate future engagement with stakeholders and translate knowledge into action. It will also become the foundation of further investigations by providing insight toward new knowledge generated as a result of its implementation. The FEW Nexus community of science will provide a platform from which the Nexus community will share and exchange ideas, draw on international, national, and local FEW nexus efforts, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and development of partnerships for sharing data and information. This will lay the foundation for future FEW Nexus research and allow public, private and scientific sector stakeholders to participate in research to inform decision and policy making.