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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个生态系统健康密切相关。随着人口的增加和饮食的变化，对食物、能源和水的需求都在增加，因此必须考虑能量、水和土地资源使用的平衡，以实现食物和营养安全、经济目标以及基本的生态系统功能和服务。典型的研究项目相当狭隘，由个别学科进行。然而，为了应对广泛的挑战并实现可持续的解决方案，不同学科之间的合作至关重要。这笔赠款旨在增进美国不同学科和中国之间对应对与食品、能源和水系统(FEW)之间的竞争相关的日益重要的挑战的方法的了解。通常，食品、能源和水系统的技术、政策和管理系统的开发没有考虑到可能发生的各种权衡，这些基本人类需求对资源的竞争需求，以及监管这些需求的政策中的潜在冲突。该项目的目标是在不同的科学和工程学科之间建立网络和召开会议，以确定要进行整体研究的食品、能源和水系统，以便为满足对这些资源日益增长的需求的系统实现生产率和效率的提高。该项目将使科学家和工程师能够组建团队来解决特定的少数系统和开发跨学科的概念。该项目将支持通过食品、能源和水研究的不同方面的不同学科之间的互动来开发创新想法的活动。这些将包括技术、社会和政策创新，以促进跨国界FEWS项目的发展，并为地方、国家和全球解决方案提供概念，以实现自然资源开发和利用的可持续集约化。该项目将建立美国-中国交叉研究协调网络，以(I)确定FEWS纽带的跨学科环境重大挑战研究机会，(Ii)制定一个框架，以克服美国和中国合作研究人员之间进行跨学科研究的障碍，以及(Iii)建立国际合作成果的教育、培训、交流和效果评估的示范平台。在为期两年的战略研究规划、重大挑战识别和团队合作研讨会期间，FEWSTERN将生成支持国际合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交流项目成果和目标。新的系统层面的研究将为FEWS纽带的学术界和产业界伙伴关系创造机会。