The Nature of Cities Summit--A movement for transdisciplinary green cities; Paris, June 2019

城市本质峰会——跨学科绿色城市运动；

• 批准号: 1904006
• 负责人: Diane Pataki
• 金额: $ 4.94万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1904006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Nature; Cities; Summit; movement; transdisciplinary

Ecosystem scientists have played a small role in the planning and design of cities. This is limiting advances in understanding of how cities develop and function. Ecological features like biodiversity, energy flow, nutrient cycling, hydrology and pollution loads, remain poorly understood, especially to those responsible for urban design. The flow of scientific information to urban planning, design, and policy professionals has been relatively slow. Scientific advances that may contribute to solving pressing urban problems have not been adequately incorporated into policy and practice. To improve communication between urban ecological science and the practitioners that plan, design, and manage cities, the PIs propose to bring scientists and professionals together at a unique international summit about the ecology of cities.This summit is uniquely designed to equally advance both scientific understanding of cities as well as better urban societal outcomes. The PIs wish to ensure participation from a broad range of U.S. students, ecosystem scientists, and practitioners in urban ecological planning and design. They seek to broaden participation in urban ecological research and urban practice by funding attendance from members of underrepresented groups, researchers from predominantly undergraduate institutions, and practitioners who lack the funds to attend an international summit. The intended scientific outcomes are to ensure that urban ecological research addresses the most pressing uncertainties in meeting social and environmental challenges in modern cities. There is great potential for integrating cutting edge ecosystem science into many elements of city creation and management, yet currently, there are very few avenues for doing so. This summit presents a rare opportunity to create meaningful and lasting collaborations between scientists, planners, designers, artists, developers, community leaders, and elected officials who share these goals.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.

生态系统科学家在城市的规划和设计中发挥了很小的作用。这限制了对城市如何发展和运作的理解。生物多样性、能量流动、养分循环、水文和污染负荷等生态特征仍然知之甚少，尤其是那些负责城市设计的人。科学信息流向城市规划、设计和政策专业人员的速度相对缓慢。可能有助于解决紧迫的城市问题的科学进步尚未充分纳入政策和实践。为了促进城市生态科学与规划、设计和管理城市的从业者之间的交流，PI提议将科学家和专业人士聚集在一个独特的关于城市生态的国际峰会上。这个峰会的独特设计既促进了对城市的科学理解，也促进了更好的城市社会成果。PI希望确保广泛的美国学生，生态系统科学家和城市生态规划和设计从业者的参与。他们寻求扩大参与城市生态研究和城市实践，资助出席代表性不足的群体，主要是本科院校的研究人员，以及缺乏资金参加国际峰会的从业人员。预期的科学成果是确保城市生态研究解决现代城市在应对社会和环境挑战方面最紧迫的不确定性。将尖端生态系统科学融入城市创建和管理的许多要素中具有巨大的潜力，但目前这样做的途径很少。本次峰会为科学家、规划师、设计师、艺术家、开发商、社区领袖和有共同目标的民选官员之间建立有意义和持久的合作提供了一个难得的机会。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。