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、水和能源问题往往彼此紧密相连，不仅在地方，而且在全球。这就是所谓的食物-水-能源（FWE）关系。对局部水问题的有效解决可能会导致新的局部食物或能源问题，或在全球范围内引起新的水问题。在地方范围内，很难预测在地方和全球范围内，对一个问题的解决方案在粮食、水和能源系统中是否可持续。包含这些联系的创新解决方案对于使城市更好地管理其粮食、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个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛-欧洲城市联合规划倡议（JPI）竞标选出的项目。可持续城市化全球倡议(SUGI)/粮食-水-能源联系是一项多边倡议，旨在支持研究项目，将全球零散的研究和专业知识汇集在一起，为粮食-水-能源联系挑战找到创新解决方案。该呼吁旨在制定更具弹性、更适用的城市解决方案，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办法。所要求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联盟中进行合作，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。其他国家的参与者通过其国家资助组织获得资助。该项目旨在发展一个少数系统，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限制：该项目旨在通过设计健康食品生产本地化战略并在遥远未来气候影响的背景下对这些战略进行测试来减轻这些限制。这个生产的本地化规模在每个地方都是不同的，从单个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，并用于激励其他地方参与这些问题。与利益相关者研讨会计划相结合的是分析决策支持工具M-NEX的开发。每个连续的研讨会都增加了工具的复杂性和细节，旨在支持规划和整合当地粮食生产的决策。该项目采用基于研究的设计方法，在全球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，这将有助于在未来的城市设计和开发中整合FEW解决方案。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.