SUGI: Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative Food-Water-Energy Nexus Coordination

SUGI：可持续城市化全球倡议粮食-水-能源关系协调

• 批准号: 1832510
• 负责人: Erica Key
• 金额: $ 81.65万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2022-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832510&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SUGI; Sustainable; Urbanization; Global; Initiative

This project, led by the Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub at the University of Colorado, is to coordinate and support the Belmont Forum's Collaborative Research Action Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. The Initiative involves fifteen major, international, transdisciplinary, research teams with operations in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa: all working towards solutions on urban sustainability challenges that intersect with key aspects of food, water and energy systems. Twelve of the fifteen projects have a US partner or are US led. Activities organized and carried out by the University of Colorado Future Earth Hub provide connections and support that enables cross-project integration as well as training scientists in best practices in transdisciplinary research. Work also includes providing mechanisms for working across projects to strengthen research outcomes, supporting cross-team synthesis activities, and developing integrated multi-media communications campaigns to deliver targeted communication products to key audiences. Broder impacts of the work include increasing the diversity of university students engaged in sustainability science by providing them with a multiple year program of engagement with Belmont Forum-funded food-water-energy nexus research groups. The University of Colorado Hub of the Future Earth Secretariat is an organization that helps support and coordinate the work of transdisciplinary research teams. This project builds on the Hub's already-developed organizational structure and successes in coordinating and translating research science in sustainability into impactful traditional and innovative multimedia public outreach materials. For this project, the Hub will bring its organizational and staffing strengths to bear on coordinating activities and providing important synthesis venues for the fifteen research teams involved in the Belmont Forum's Collaborative Research Action Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. The Colorado Hub of Future Earth will provide organizational support for workshops and other in-person interaction events to enhance internal research team and cross-project communications to ensure the research being carried out has maximum impact and there is transmission of information and findings between research teams. Coordination efforts involve surveys to identify challenges and issues that resonate within and between groups to promote shared learning. Resulting webinars and workshops create a learning forum that involves and benefits all parties. The Hub also provides training in best practices in transdisciplinary research and the co-development of research and policy. The Hub, in its facilitation role, will also support up to five synthesis grants, with each award supporting up to three synthesis meetings. In the final year, a capstone meeting of the research teams will be held where they will report on and integrate key research findings and lessons learned. The capstone event will also be used to assess, from the perspective of each team and on the part of the project overall, the effectiveness of the program and its impact.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.

该项目由科罗拉多大学未来地球全球秘书处中心领导，旨在协调和支持贝尔蒙特论坛关于粮食-能源-水关系的可持续城市化全球合作研究行动倡议。 该倡议涉及十五个主要的国际跨学科研究团队，其业务遍及北美、欧洲、亚洲、拉丁美洲和非洲：所有团队都致力于解决与粮食、水和能源系统关键方面相交叉的城市可持续发展挑战。十五个项目中有十二个有美国合作伙伴或由美国主导。科罗拉多大学未来地球中心组织和开展的活动提供了联系和支持，实现跨项目整合，并培训科学家进行跨学科研究的最佳实践。工作还包括提供跨项目工作机制以加强研究成果、支持跨团队综合活动以及开发综合多媒体传播活动以向关键受众提供有针对性的传播产品。 布罗德这项工作的影响包括通过为从事可持续科学的大学生提供与贝尔蒙特论坛资助的食品-水-能源关系研究小组的多年合作项目来增加他们的多样性。科罗拉多大学未来地球中心秘书处是一个帮助支持和协调跨学科研究团队工作的组织。该项目建立在该中心已经开发的组织结构以及在协调可持续发展科学研究并将其转化为有影响力的传统和创新多媒体公共宣传材料方面取得的成功的基础上。对于该项目，该中心将利用其组织和人员优势来协调活动，并为参与贝尔蒙特论坛粮食-能源-水关系可持续城市化全球合作研究行动倡议的十五个研究团队提供重要的综合场所。科罗拉多州未来地球中心将为研讨会和其他面对面互动活动提供组织支持，以加强内部研究团队和跨项目沟通，确保正在进行的研究产生最大影响，并在研究团队之间传递信息和研究结果。协调工作包括进行调查，以确定在群体内部和群体之间产生共鸣的挑战和问题，以促进共享学习。由此产生的网络研讨会和研讨会创建了一个让各方参与并受益的学习论坛。该中心还提供跨学科研究最佳实践以及研究与政策共同发展的培训。该中心还将发挥其促进作用，支持最多五项综合拨款，每个奖项最多支持三场综合会议。 在最后一年，研究团队将举行一次总结会议，他们将在会上报告并整合关键研究成果和经验教训。顶点活动还将用于从每个团队的角度和整个项目的角度评估该计划的有效性及其影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。