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.

该项目由位于科罗拉多大学的未来地球全球秘书处中心牵头，旨在协调和支持贝尔蒙特论坛关于粮食-能源-水关系的合作研究行动可持续城市化全球倡议。 该倡议涉及在北美、欧洲、亚洲、拉丁美洲和非洲开展业务的15个主要的国际跨学科研究团队：所有这些团队都致力于解决与粮食、水和能源系统的关键方面相互交叉的城市可持续性挑战。15个项目中有12个有美国合作伙伴或由美国领导。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，使跨项目整合以及培训科学家在跨学科研究的最佳做法。工作还包括提供跨项目合作机制，以加强研究成果，支持跨团队综合活动，并制定综合多媒体宣传活动，向主要受众提供有针对性的宣传产品。 这项工作的更广泛影响包括增加从事可持续发展科学的大学生的多样性，为他们提供一个与贝尔蒙特论坛资助的食品-水-能源关系研究小组合作的多年计划。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发展的组织结构以及在协调和将可持续性研究科学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，该中心将发挥其组织和人员优势，协调活动，并为参与贝尔蒙特论坛关于粮食-能源-水关系的合作研究行动可持续城市化全球倡议的15个研究小组提供重要的综合场所。未来地球科罗拉多中心将为研讨会和其他面对面的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输信息和发现。协调工作包括开展调查，以查明在各群体内部和群体之间产生共鸣的挑战和问题，促进共同学习。由此产生的网络研讨会和讲习班创造了一个学习论坛，涉及并有利于所有各方。该中心还提供跨学科研究最佳做法的培训以及研究和政策的共同发展。该中心发挥其促进作用，还将支持最多五项综合赠款，每项赠款最多支持三次综合会议。 在最后一年，将举行一次研究小组的高峰会议，他们将在会上报告和整合主要的研究结果和经验教训。该奖项还将用于从每个团队的角度和项目整体的角度评估项目的有效性及其影响。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。