Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Food-Water-Energy Nexus: Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in Cities

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究食物-水-能源关系：治理城市食物、水和能源关系的创新举措

• 批准号: 1829224
• 负责人: Karen Seto
• 金额: $ 36.66万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829224&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Food

Many cities across the globe are facing difficult challenges managing their food, water and energy systems. The challenges stem from the fact that the issues of food, water and energy are often tightly connected with each other, not only locally but also globally. This is known as the Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus. An effective solution to a local water problem may cause new local problems with food or energy, or cause new water problems at the global level. On a local scale, it is difficult to anticipate whether solutions to one issue in the nexus are sustainable across food, water and energy systems, both at the local and the global scale. Innovative solutions that encompass the nexus are particularly important to enable cities to better manage their food, water and energy systems and understand the benefits and tradeoffs for different solutions. This award supports U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 29-country initiative through the joint Belmont Forum- Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe. The Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a multilateral initiative designed to support research projects that bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. The call seeks to develop more resilient, applied urban solutions to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders. The rapid urbanization of the world's population underscores the importance of this focus. International partners were invited to develop solutions for this challenge. The funds requested will be used to support U.S. participants to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., civil society, NGOs, and industry). Participants from other countries are funded through their national funding organizations. Improved governance of the interactions between food, water and energy in cities can provide significant benefits in addressing some of the most complex global problems, including climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as help achieve other developmental goals such as food security and health. This research will advance knowledge about urban governance at the different levels related to the food-energy-water nexus using natural and semi-natural landscape techniques and approaches, by developing new concepts and approaches to understand how to assess, govern and build solutions and policies. The project will involve remote sensing data of water and land-use change as well as high performance computing to create the various scenarios and test the different solutions. The project will develop a framework and tools to assess changes in the food-energy-water nexus, their related trade-offs and the building of innovative capabilities in cities for developing innovative solutions to the food-energy-water nexus.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.

地球仪上的许多城市都面临着管理食物、水和能源系统的艰巨挑战。这些挑战源于这样一个事实，即粮食、水和能源问题不仅在地方上而且在全球范围内往往彼此密切相关。这就是所谓的食物-水-能源（FWE）关系。 一个地方水问题的有效解决方案可能会引起新的地方性粮食或能源问题，或在全球范围内引起新的水问题。在地方一级，很难预测在地方和全球一级，对这一关系中的一个问题的解决办法是否可持续地贯穿整个粮食、水和能源系统。 包含这一关系的创新解决方案对于使城市能够更好地管理其粮食、水和能源系统以及了解不同解决方案的利弊尤为重要。 该奖项支持美国研究人员参与一个由29个国家倡议通过联合贝尔蒙特论坛-联合规划倡议（JPI）城市欧洲竞争性选择的项目。 可持续城市化全球倡议/粮食-水-能源关系是一项多边倡议，旨在支持研究项目，汇集地球仪各地分散的研究和专门知识，为粮食-水-能源关系挑战找到创新解决方案。 该呼吁旨在制定更具弹性的实用城市解决方案，以使更广泛的利益攸关方受益。世界人口的迅速城市化突出了这一重点的重要性。邀请国际伙伴为这一挑战制定解决方案。 申请的资金将用于支持美国参与者在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的财团中进行合作，并将自然科学家，社会科学家和研究用户（例如，民间社会、非政府组织和行业）。 来自其他国家的参与者通过其国家供资组织获得资助。改善对城市中粮食、水和能源之间相互作用的治理，可以为解决气候变化和生物多样性丧失等一些最复杂的全球性问题带来重大惠益，并有助于实现粮食安全和健康等其他发展目标。这项研究将利用自然和半自然景观技术和方法，通过制定新的概念和方法，了解如何评估、管理和制定解决方案和政策，增进对与粮食-能源-水关系有关的各级城市治理的了解。 该项目将涉及水和土地使用变化的遥感数据以及高性能计算，以创建各种情景并测试不同的解决方案。 该项目将开发一个框架和工具，以评估粮食-能源-水关系的变化，其相关的权衡和城市创新能力的建设，以开发粮食-能源-水关系的创新解决方案。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Quantification of the food-water-energy nexus in urban green and blue infrastructure: A synthesis of the literature

• DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106658
• 期刊: Resources, Conservation and Recycling
• 作者: Fanxin Meng;Qiuling Yuan;R. Bellezoni;J. A. P. de Oliveira;S. Cristiano;AA Shah;Gengyuan Liu

Understanding and conceptualizing how urban green and blue infrastructure affects the food, water, and energy nexus: A synthesis of the literature

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125825
• 发表时间: 2021-01-11
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
• 影响因子: 11.1
• 作者: Bellezoni, Rodrigo A.;Meng, Fanxin;Seto, Karen C.
• 通讯作者: Seto, Karen C.