EAGER: FEWSTERN: US-China Food-Energy-Water Systems Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Network

渴望：FEWSTERN：美中食品-能源-水系统跨学科环境研究网络

基本信息

批准号：
1739474
负责人：
Frank Loeffler
金额：
$ 30万
依托单位：
University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-05-15 至 2021-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1739474&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
EAGER FEWSTERN US China Food

项目摘要

Food production and quality are closely linked to use of energy and water and overall ecosystem health. As demand for food, energy, and water all increase due to increased population and changes in diet, it is essential to consider the balance of energy, water, and land resource uses to achieve food and nutrition security, economic goals, and essential ecosystem functions and services. Typical research projects are rather narrowly-focused and carried out by individual disciplines. However, in order to address broad challenges and enable sustainable solutions, collaboration among different disciplines is essential. This grant aims to increase the understanding among different academic disciplines in the US and China of approaches for addressing increasingly important challenges related to competition among food, energy, and water systems (FEWS). Typically, development of technologies, policies, and management systems for food, energy, and water systems are done without considering various tradeoffs that may occur, competing demands for resources for each of these basic human needs, and potential conflicts in policies that regulate each of them. The goal of this project is to enable networking and meetings among different science and engineering disciplines to identify food, energy, and water systems to be studied holistically so that increases in productivity and efficiency can be achieved for systems that provide for increasing demands for these resources. The project will enable scientists and engineers to develop teams to address specific FEW systems and to develop interdisciplinary concepts.This project will support activities that will enable innovative ideas to be developed through interactions among different disciplines involved in various aspects of food, energy and water research. These will range from technological to social and policy innovations for FEWS program development beyond national borders, and contribute concepts for local, national and global solutions to achieve sustainable intensification of natural resource exploitation and use. The project will establish a US-China crosscutting research coordination network to (i) identify transdisciplinary environmental grand challenge research opportunities at the FEWS nexus, (ii) develop a framework to overcome hurdles to interdisciplinary research both between and among collaborating US and China researchers, and (iii) establish model platforms for education, training, communication and efficacy evaluations of the outputs of international cooperation. Over a 2-year period of strategic research planning, identification of grand challenges, and teaming workshops, FEWSTERN will generate technical whitepapers and guidance documents supporting international collaboration and research. US and Chinese graduate students will communicate project outcomes and goals via social media outlets. Novel system level research will generate opportunities for academia-industry partnerships at the FEWS nexus.

粮食生产和质量与能源和水的使用以及整体生态系统健康密切相关。由于对粮食，能源和水的需求都由于人口增加和饮食变化而增加，因此必须考虑能源，水和土地资源使用的平衡，以实现粮食和营养安全，经济目标以及基本的生态系统功能和服务。典型的研究项目是相当狭窄的，并由单个学科进行。但是，为了应对广泛的挑战并实现可持续解决方案，不同学科之间的协作至关重要。该赠款旨在提高美国和中国在不同学科之间的理解，以应对与食品，能源和水系统之间竞争有关的日益重要的挑战（很少）。通常，在不考虑可能发生的各种权衡的情况下，对食品，能源和供水系统进行技术，政策和管理系统的开发，对这些基本人类需求中的每一个的资源需求以及规范每个人的政策的潜在冲突。该项目的目的是使不同的科学和工程学科之间的网络和会议能够确定整体研究的食品，能源和水系统，以便可以提高生产率和效率，以实现提供对这些资源需求增加的系统。该项目将使科学家和工程师能够开发团队来解决特定的少数系统并开发跨学科的概念。该项目将支持通过参与食品，能源和水研究各个方面的不同学科的互动来发展创新思想的活动。这些范围从技术发展到国家边界以外的少数计划发展的技术和政策创新，并为本地，国家和全球解决方案贡献概念，以实现自然资源开发和使用的可持续性加强。该项目将建立一个美中横切研究协调网络，以（i）确定几个Nexus的跨学科环境挑战研究机会，（ii）开发一个框架，以克服美国和中国研究人员之间和合作之间的跨学科研究的障碍，以及（III）建立教育，培训，交流，交流和效率评估的模型平台。在为期两年的战略研究计划，确定巨大挑战和团队研讨会中，很少有人会生成支持国际协作和研究的技术白皮书和指导文件。美国和中国的研究生将通过社交媒体传达项目成果和目标。新颖的系统级别的研究将为几个Nexus的学术界与行业伙伴关系带来机会。