Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Food-Water-Energy Nexus: The Moveable Nexus: Design-led urban food, water and energy management innovation in new boundary conditions of change

全球许多城市都面临着管理食物、水和能源系统的严峻挑战。这些挑战源于这样一个事实，即粮食、水和能源问题往往彼此紧密联系，不仅是地方问题，而且是全球问题。这就是所谓的食物-水-能源(FWE)关系。当地水问题的有效解决可能会在当地造成新的粮食或能源问题，或者在全球范围内造成新的水问题。在地方范围内，很难预测在粮食、水和能源系统内，无论是在地方还是在全球范围内，一个问题的解决办法是否可持续。围绕这一联系的创新解决方案对于使城市能够更好地管理其食品、水和能源系统并了解不同解决方案的好处和权衡尤为重要。该奖项支持美国研究人员参与一个由29个国家通过联合贝尔蒙论坛-联合规划倡议(JPI)欧洲城市计划竞争性选择的项目。可持续城市化全球倡议(SUGI)/粮食-水-能源联系是一个多边倡议，旨在支持将全球各地零散的研究和专业知识汇集在一起的研究项目，以找到应对粮食-水-能源联系挑战的创新解决方案。这一呼吁寻求开发更具弹性、更实用的城市解决方案，以造福更广泛的利益相关者。世界人口的快速城市化突显了这一重点的重要性。邀请国际合作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财团中进行合作，财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户(如公民社会、非政府组织和工业界)聚集在一起。来自其他国家的参与者通过其国家资助组织获得资助。这个项目寻求开发几个系统，将健康食品的本地化生产纳入其中。健康食品的生产和消费受到未来气候变化和当前饮食的制约：该项目旨在通过设计健康食品生产的本地化战略并在遥远的未来气候影响范围内对其进行测试来缓解这些限制。这种产品的本地化规模在每个地点都有所不同，从单一屋顶到整个大都市地区。设计成果将被用作整个可能解决方案领域的基石，并被用来激励其他地方参与这些问题。与利益攸关方研讨会方案相结合的是开发分析决策支持工具--M-NEX。每次相继举办的讲习班都增加了这一工具的复杂性和细节，其目的是支持当地粮食生产的规划和一体化决策。该项目使用基于研究的设计方法，在世界六个不同地区开发鼓舞人心的城市解决方案。在每个项目中产生的新知识将逐步用于开发分析决策支持工具，该工具将帮助在未来的城市设计和开发中整合一些解决方案。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。

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 projects seeks to develop a FEW system incorporating the localized production of healthy food. The production and consumption of healthy food is constrained by both future climate change and current diets: the project aims to mitigate these by designing strategies for the localization of healthy food production and test these within the context of far-future climate impacts. The scale at which this production is localized differs in each location, spanning scales from a single rooftop to an entire metropolitan region. The design outputs will be used as cornerstones of the entire field of possible solutions and are used to inspire other places to engage with these issues. Integrated within the program of stakeholder workshops is the development of an analytical decision-support tool, the M-NEX. Each successive workshop adds complexity and detail to the tool which aims to support decision-making in the planning and integration of local food production. The project uses a research-based design approach to develop inspiring urban solutions in six differing regions across the world. The new knowledge generated in each of these projects will be used incrementally to develop an analytical decision support tool that will help integrate FEW solutions in future urban designs and developments.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.