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

1927468（格林）1927167（麦克弗森）。世界各地的城市和城市化地区都面临极端天气事件和海平面上升的威胁。它们面临风险，因为它们的基础设施往往年久失修，不再适合应对更强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，通常只为一个目的而设计，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，在建筑基础设施中融入生态元素，甚至模仿自然，在面对不断变化的条件时提供灵活性，并为社会带来多重效益，往往成本相对较低。“基于自然的人类世城市韧性解决方案”（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，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的交流，跨越研究与实践的鸿沟，促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。作为这一知识共享的重要组成部分，学习交流将建立下一代研究人员和实践者的能力，使他们能够在广泛的社会、生态和技术背景下共同致力于基于自然的解决方案的应用。NATURA国际网络网络将研究科学家（生态学家、工程师和社会科学家）和城市实践者（如市、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，共同设计和实施应对极端事件挑战的解决方案。NATURA将联合欧洲、南非、中国、北美和南美的21个网络，以及全球5个以美国为基地的网络，这些网络正在进行研究和实施基于自然的解决方案。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些方面是独特的，或者可以更普遍地应用于应对城市弹性挑战。通过全体会议、专题工作组、区域节点和综合写作讲习班，该项目将实现综合和数据共享以及网络协调的目标。早期职业研究人员和从业人员将由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，培养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）计划旨在加速科学发现的进程，并为下一代美国研究人员进行多团队国际合作做好准备。AccelNet项目支持美国研究网络与国外互补网络之间的战略联系，将利用研究和教育资源来应对需要重大国际协调努力的重大科学挑战。本项目由环境生物学部（BIO/DEB）共同资助。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。

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.