Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Food-Water-Energy Nexus: Enabling adaptive integration of technology to enhance community resilience

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究食物-水-能源关系：实现技术的适应性整合以增强社区的复原力

• 批准号: 1830036
• 负责人: Ni-Bin Chang
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 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: 2018-07-15 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1830036&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. This project aims to generate actionable information by analyzing the distributed production and storage of materials and energy flows into, out of, and within a community/city given their consumption patterns and supply chains associated with various FWE nexuses. This project will develop a multi-scale modeling framework to address the inter-relationship between multiple stressors affecting the food-water-energy nexus in 3 urban environments, Amsterdam, Orlando, and Paris. The models will investigate the impacts of increasing metropolitan populations, rapid land use change, shifting social, economic and governance norms, escalating climate variability, and changing ecosystem services within each of the investigated FWE nexus to elucidate the resultant water, carbon, and ecological footprint for each location. This information should ultimately enable us to understand the trade-offs and balances between various drivers and their impacts on each segment on the nexus which will help to develop scenarios that can optimize the sustainability of the food-water-nexus components for each location. This information will be used to understand the role of key technologies in different types of nexuses associated with different urban planning scenarios affect the final sustainable solution; and how different social networks help evaluate the acceptance of these potential technologies across different cultural contexts. This knowledge can then be used to understand both the physical and social resilience of the location and community to potential scenarios.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。该项目的目的是，根据社区/城市的消费模式和与各种FWE关系相关的供应链，分析流入、流出和在社区/城市内的材料和能源的分布式生产和储存，从而产生可采取行动的信息。 该项目将开发一个多尺度的建模框架，以解决在3个城市环境中，阿姆斯特丹，奥兰多和巴黎影响食物-水-能源关系的多种压力源之间的相互关系。 这些模型将调查大都市人口增加，土地利用快速变化，社会，经济和治理规范变化，气候变异性升级以及每个调查的FWE关系中生态系统服务变化的影响，以阐明每个位置的水，碳和生态足迹。 这些信息最终将使我们能够了解各种驱动因素之间的权衡和平衡及其对关系中每个部分的影响，这将有助于制定可以优化每个地点粮食-水-关系组成部分的可持续性的情景。 这些信息将用于了解关键技术在与不同城市规划情景相关的不同类型的关系中的作用，这些关系影响最终的可持续解决方案;以及不同的社交网络如何帮助评估这些潜在技术在不同文化背景下的接受程度。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。