Collaborative Research: Accel-Net: Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA)

1927468(格林)1927167(麦克普森)。世界各地的城市和城市化地区都暴露在极端天气事件和海平面上升的影响之下。他们面临风险，因为他们的基础设施经常年久失修，不再适合更激烈或更频繁的极端事件，或者无法跟上城市人口的快速增长。传统的工程基础设施，如雨水排水系统或海堤，通常只设计用于一个目的，很少能适应不断变化的条件。以保护自然的生态系统为基础的解决方案，在已建成的基础设施中纳入生态元素，甚至模仿自然，在面对不断变化的条件时提供灵活性，并为社会提供多重好处，往往成本相对较低。以自然为基础的人类世城市复原力解决方案(Natura)项目连接了26个网络，以加强世界学者和实践者之间的联系，并改善全球城市可持续性的前景。Natura交流知识，共享数据，并加强研究学科之间和研究与实践之间的沟通，以增进对如何为日益增长的极端天气事件的威胁做好准备的理解。作为这种知识共享的重要组成部分，学习交流将培养下一代研究人员和从业者在广泛的社会、生态和技术背景下合作应用基于自然的解决方案的能力。Natura国际网络将研究科学家(生态学家、工程师和社会科学家)和城市从业者(如来自市、县或州政府的官员、非政府组织成员和社区领袖)聚集在一起，他们致力于设计和实施应对极端事件挑战的解决方案。Natura将把专注于欧洲、南非、中国、北美和南美以及全球的21个网络与5个正在进行研究和实施基于自然的解决方案的美国网络联合起来。Natura将推进基于自然的解决方案的理论和研究，确定并填补全球不同社会-生物物理背景下的研究空白，以了解基于自然的解决方案在哪里是独一无二的，或者可以更普遍地应用于应对城市复原力挑战。通过全体会议、专题工作组、区域节点和综合写作研讨会，该项目将实现综合和数据共享、网络协调的目标。职业生涯早期的研究人员和从业者将由Natura赞助，对网络合作伙伴进行为期五周的访问。此外，Natura将通过与全球网络的学习交流来培训博士后学者和研究生。通过与合作伙伴的合作，国际学生将被邀请参加由美国网络主办的这些交流活动。通过国际网络对网络合作加速研究(AccelNet)计划旨在加快科学发现的进程，并为多团队国际合作培养下一代美国研究人员。AccelNet计划支持美国研究网络和海外互补网络之间的战略联系，这些网络将利用研究和教育资源来应对需要重大协调国际努力的重大科学挑战。这个项目是由环境生物学分部(BIO/DEB)共同资助的。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

1927468 (Grimm) 1927167 (McPhearson). Cities and urbanized regions worldwide are exposed to extreme weather events and rising seas. They are at risk because their infrastructure often is in disrepair, no longer appropriate for more intense or frequent extreme events, or unable to keep up with rapid urban population growth. Traditional engineered infrastructure, such as stormwater drainage systems or sea walls, is usually designed for only one purpose and seldom can adapt to changing conditions. Solutions that are based on nature-preserving protective ecosystems, incorporating ecological elements or even mimicking nature in built infrastructure, offer flexibility in the face of changing conditions and provide multiple benefits to society, often at relatively low cost. The NATure-based solutions to Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA) project links 26 networks to enhance connectivity among the world's scholars and practitioners and improve the prospects for global urban sustainability. NATURA exchanges knowledge, shares data, and enhances communication among research disciplines and across the research-practice divide to advance understanding of how to prepare for the growing threat of extreme weather events. As an important part of this knowledge sharing, learning exchanges will build capacity of the next generation of researchers and practitioners to work together on applications of nature-based solutions in a wide range of social, ecological, and technological contexts.The NATURA international network of networks brings together research scientists (ecologists, engineers, and social scientists) and city practitioners (such as officials from city, county, or state governments, members of non-governmental organizations, and community leaders) who work on devising and implementing solutions to the challenge of extreme events. NATURA will unite 21 networks focused in Europe, South Africa, China, North and South America, and globally with 5 U.S.-based networks that are conducting research and implementing nature-based solutions. NATURA will advance theory and research on nature-based solutions, identifying and filling research gaps across diverse global social-biophysical contexts to understand where nature-based solutions are unique or can be more generally applied to meet urban resilience challenges. Through all-hands meetings, thematic working groups, regional nodes, and synthesis writing workshops, the project will accomplish the goals of synthesis and data sharing, and network coordination. Early-career researchers and practitioners will be sponsored by NATURA to pay five-week visits to network partners. Further, NATURA will train postdoctoral scholars and graduate students through learning exchanges to networks around the globe. Through collaboration with partners, international students will be invited to participate in these exchanges, hosted by US networks. The Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program is designed to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. This project was co-funded by the Division of Environmental Biology (BIO/DEB).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.