RCN: Building A Community of Practice for Household Water Insecurity Research

家庭用水不安全研究协调网络将推动家庭供水和水不安全的概念化，以应对更广泛的社会和环境挑战。HWISE将建立一个实践和合作社区，重点放在关键分析和理论进步上，同时制定研究方案和标准化评估，以记录、基准和了解家庭层面水不安全的原因和结果。水不安全的广义定义是，个人或家庭无法从支持水流动、质量和服务的进程中受益，以支持人类的能力和福祉。这个RCN将使美国社会受益，它将把分析和方法的努力集中在美国数百万面临严重和长期水不安全的最脆弱人群面临的关键问题上。HWISE网络由来自多个学科的科学家组成，旨在加强合作，改善研究人员和政策实践者之间的互动，以造福社会，并建立公开可用的基础设施。除了传统的调查、地理空间和定性研究工具和数据外，RCN还将建立一个公共HWISE门户，以传播RCN的所有产品，并提供访问新形式的社会、视觉和叙事数据基础设施的途径。该RCN通过对关键水安全问题的强有力评估，推进可持续和社会公平的水政策和干预措施的目标。RCN明确关注家庭用水不安全的原因和后果，并将研究成果转化为对从业人员、社区和决策者有意义和有用的产品。HWISE网络通过跨学科对话推进概念创新，这必然要求跨学科科学界开发和评估研究方法，以推进跨地点比较，包括美国家庭水不安全的挑战。RCN将整合地理空间方法和数据，使该网络处于有利地位，有助于对家庭用水决策进行前所未有的高分辨率、时空和跨文化理解，并为测试关于水-社会相互作用的新假设奠定基础。为了实现这些目标，HWISE RCN将在战略场所组织专题研讨会、网络活动、基于会议的活动、研究能力建设活动、网络间交流和特别会议，以加强和支持学术和政策社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Household Water Insecurity (HWISE) Research Coordination Network (RCN) will advance the conceptualization of domestic water provisioning and water insecurity in relation to broader social and environmental challenges. HWISE will build a community of practice and collaboration that focuses on key analytics and theoretical advances coupled with the development of research protocols and standardized assessments to document, benchmark, and understand the causes and outcomes of water insecurity at the household level. Water insecurity is broadly defined as the situation wherein individuals or households cannot benefit from the processes that support water flows, quality, and services in support of human capabilities and well-being. This RCN will benefit U.S. society by focusing analytical and methodological efforts on a critical issue facing millions of the country's most vulnerable people facing acute and chronic water insecurity. The HWISE network is comprised of scientists from many disciplines and is designed to enhance collaboration, improve the interaction between researchers and policy-practitioners to benefit society, and build publicly available infrastructure. The RCN will host a public HWISE Portal to disseminate all RCN products and provide access to new forms of social, visual, and narrative data infrastructure, in addition to traditional survey, geospatial, and qualitative research instruments and data.This RCN advances the goal of sustainable and socially equitable water policy and interventions through the robust evaluation of key water security problems. The RCN gives explicit attention to the causes and outcomes of household water insecurity and translates research outcomes into meaningful and useful products for practitioners, communities, and decision-makers. The HWISE Network advances conceptual innovation through an interdisciplinary dialogue, which necessarily demands that the interdisciplinary scientific community develop and evaluate research methods to advance cross-site comparisons, including the challenge of household water insecurity in the United States. The RCN will integrate geospatial methods and data, making the network well positioned to contribute to an unprecedented high-resolution, spatio-temporal, cross-cultural understanding of household water decision-making and providing the groundwork to test new hypotheses about water-society interactions. To achieve these objectives, the HWISE RCN will organize thematic workshops, networking activities, conference-based events, research capacity-building activities, inter-network exchanges, and special sessions in strategic venues that enhance and support of academic and policy communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.