A Proposed Workshop on Interdisciplinary Sustainable Solutions for Urban Systems in a Changing Climate

这是一笔赠款，用于支持一个SUS讲习班。城市可持续性的研究通常涉及多个学科，但这项工作往往在几个重要方面受到限制。首先，关于城市可持续性的许多研究都侧重于适用于大型城市系统的解决方案，而没有解决小型或城市边缘社区居民的问题。其次，学术研究人员可能倾向于在没有社区和行业利益相关者参与的情况下开展工作。第三，许多艺术和人文学科的研究学科没有被纳入可持续发展的研究团队。本次研讨会旨在填补这些空白。它将：探索新的解决方案，以应对水、能源和气候适应方面的可持续发展挑战；研究可持续性解决方案如何随城市系统的规模而变化；寻找新的方法将艺术和人文学科的研究人员整合到可持续发展的研究团队中；并研究研究人员与来自企业、社区和非政府组织的利益相关者的深度整合如何改变研究。本次研讨会将制定可实施的战略，以创建和维持一个大规模的研究网络，通过许多学科、市政当局、非政府组织和商业伙伴之间的深度整合，解决各种规模城市的城市可持续发展问题。研讨会将确定在解决能源、水和气候适应等一系列不同类型城市系统的可持续性问题的研究方法和知识方面的关键差距，指导未来的可持续性研究，以改善未来气候变化时期更多人的生活。最后，早期的职业研究人员将获得人际网络和职业发展机会，这种模式通过接触学术界之外得到加强。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。

This is a grant in support of a SUS workshop Research on urban sustainability often engages multiple disciplines, but this work is often limited in several important dimensions. First, much research on urban sustainability focuses on solutions that work for very large urban systems, leaving the problems of people in small or urban-fringe communities unaddressed. Second, scholarly researchers may tend to carry out work without engaging stakeholders in communities and industry. Third, many research disciplines in arts and the humanities are not integrated into sustainability research teams. This workshop targets to fill those gaps. It will: explore new solutions to sustainability challenges in water, energy, and climate adaptation; study how sustainability solutions must vary with the scale of an urban system; identify novel ways to integrate researchers from arts and the humanities into sustainability research teams; and study how research is altered by deep integration of researchers with stakeholders from business, communities, and NGOs. This workshop will develop implementable strategies to create and sustain a large scale research network that tackles urban sustainability in cities of all sizes with deep integration between researchers in many disciplines, municipalities, NGOs, and business partners. The workshop will identify critical gaps in research methodology and knowledge for solving sustainability problems in energy, water, and climate adaptation in a range of different types of urban systems, directing future sustainability research to improve the lives of more people in the coming time of climate change. Finally, early career researchers will gain networking and career development opportunities in a mode that is enhanced by reaching outside the academy.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.