INFEWS/T3 RCN: EngageINFEWS - A Research Coordination Network for Community and Stakeholder Engagement Critical to Food, Energy, and Water Systems

专注于食品、能源和水系统（infws）创新的科学努力必然要求科学家与非科学家密切合作，以产生有益的、适当的和可用的可持续性成果。涉及社区、工业、部落组织、非政府组织、政府机构和其他利益相关者的科学方法被称为“社区参与研究”或“利益相关者参与”。engageinfws研究协调网络（RCN）汇集了不同的科学家和非科学家群体，为食品、能源和水系统（FEWS）科学领域的社区参与研究开发并记录了一套有凝聚力的最佳实践。engageinfws旨在推进社区参与研究的知识，并帮助食品、能源和水系统（FEWS）科学满足对FEWS感兴趣的各种利益相关者的需求。该RCN的结果将有助于确保人类社区配备尽可能好的工具，以应对影响粮食、能源和水系统（FEWS）的慢性和急性社会和环境变化。社区和利益相关者参与的研究旨在为非科学家参与科学工作的学术创造一个富有成效和协作的空间。由engageinfws研究协作网络（RCN）开发的框架考虑了协作治理原则如何在开发和理解在社区内或与社区合作以改进FEWS研究的最佳实践方面发挥作用。本RCN的首要假设是，社区和涉众参与的适当方法是由特定FEWS项目的环境决定的，并且根据每个环境而有所不同。engageinfws由两个框架问题提供信息：1)如何将社区和利益相关者的参与最好地整合到跨学科的FEWS项目中？2) infws团队如何进行富有成效的社区和利益相关者参与，以支持研究和教育活动？engageinfws RCN的首要目标是开发一套跨FEWS工作的当前和最佳实践。这个目标是通过engageinfws网络成员共同创建的框架来实现的，这个框架是迭代的、跨学科的、反思的和可评估的。这包括创建一个长期的、可持续的努力，可以与现有的FEWS计划一起工作，以确保研究能够响应受FEW系统动态、脆弱性和变化影响最大的人和机构的需求、关注和优先事项。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。

Scientific efforts that focus on innovations at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems (INFEWS) necessarily require that scientists work closely with non-scientists to produce beneficial, appropriate, and useable sustainability outcomes. Scientific approaches that involve communities, industry, tribal organizations, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, and other stakeholders have been called "community-engaged research" or "stakeholder engagement." The EngageINFEWS research coordination network (RCN) brings together a diverse group of scientists and non-scientists to develop and document a cohesive set of best practices for community engaged research at the intersection of food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) science. EngageINFEWS aims to advance knowledge of community-engaged research and to help food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) science serve the needs of various stakeholders interested in FEWS. Results of this RCN will serve to ensure that human communities are equipped with the best possible tools to respond to both chronic and acute social and environmental changes impacting food, energy, and water systems (FEWS). Community- and stakeholder-engaged research seeks to create a productive and collaborative space for scholarship that involves non-scientists in scientific work. The framework developed by the EngageINFEWS research collaborative network (RCN) considers how principles of collaborative governance may be useful in developing and understanding best practices for working both in and with communities to improve FEWS research. The overarching hypothesis of this RCN is that appropriate approaches to community and stakeholder engagement are determined by the context of specific FEWS projects and differ based on each context. EngageINFEWS is informed by two framing questions: 1) How are community and stakeholder engagement best integrated into interdisciplinary FEWS projects? 2) How can INFEWS teams conduct productive community and stakeholder engagement to support research and educational activities? The overarching goal of the EngageINFEWS RCN is to develop a set of current and best practices across FEWS efforts. This goal is being achieved using a framework co-created by EngageINFEWS network members that is iterative, interdisciplinary, reflexive, and evaluative. This includes creating a long term, sustainable effort which can work with and alongside existing FEWS initiatives to ensure that research is responsive to the needs, concerns, and priorities of the people and institutions that are most affected by FEW system dynamics, vulnerabilities, and change.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.