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

生态系统科学家在城市规划和设计中发挥了很小的作用。这限制了人们对城市发展和功能的理解。生物多样性、能量流、养分循环、水文和污染负荷等生态特征，尤其是那些负责城市设计的人，仍然知之甚少。科学信息流向城市规划、设计和政策专业人员的速度相对较慢。可能有助于解决紧迫城市问题的科学进步尚未充分纳入政策和实践。为了加强城市生态科学与规划、设计和管理城市的实践者之间的交流，pi提议将科学家和专业人士聚集在一起，举办一次关于城市生态的独特国际峰会。本次峰会的独特目的是促进对城市的科学理解以及更好的城市社会成果。ppi希望确保广泛的美国学生、生态系统科学家和实践者参与城市生态规划和设计。他们通过资助代表性不足的群体成员、主要来自本科院校的研究人员和缺乏资金参加国际峰会的实践者，寻求扩大对城市生态研究和城市实践的参与。预期的科学成果是确保城市生态研究解决现代城市社会和环境挑战中最紧迫的不确定性。将前沿生态系统科学整合到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。这次峰会为科学家、规划师、设计师、艺术家、开发者、社区领袖和民选官员之间建立有意义和持久的合作提供了难得的机会。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。

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.