Future Cities, Livable Futures: Toward a Sustainable Model for Urban-Watershed Systems

随着全球人口的持续增长，城市必须应对城市流域、城市和周边土地的挑战和机遇，这些土地为河流等特定水体提供径流。为了有效地做到这一点，城市必须采用一种系统的方法，将科学、工程、设计、规划和政策的观点结合起来，同时吸收沿着水边的市民的意见。“未来城市，宜居的未来：迈向城市流域系统的可持续发展模式”研讨会将于2019年8月16日和17日在达拉斯-沃斯堡（DFW）大都市的德克萨斯大学阿灵顿举行，讨论解决这些复杂问题的方法。与会者将有机会讨论和评估交通和相关基础设施系统，气候变化，经济和人口增长对Trinity河流域的环境影响，从各种学科的角度来研究城市流域系统的复杂性。Trinity河流域的未来将被重新设想为未来美国城市流域管理和规划的相关模型。该研讨会将提供一个很好的平台，介绍围绕城市流域管理的跨学科对话，探索最佳实践，并解释和更好地理解相互作用形成城市流域系统的不同因素。该讲习班将形成跨学科的研究伙伴关系，旨在制定一项关于建立和管理可持续城市流域系统的研究倡议，该讲习班将采用一种独特的参与性方法，并采用设计和系统思维，探讨不同利益攸关方的需求以及水文和人造系统对城市流域造成的具体限制，同时也审查这些需求和制约因素如何加剧社会不平等和经济差距。这种方法将开始与跨部门介绍最佳做法，并导致一个动手重新想象的未来的Trinity河流域系统。通过参与者的投入，主要研究人员将确定活动和研究领域，这些活动和研究领域将使利益相关者和合作者参与未来的努力，对DFW地区和美国其他城市未来的城市流域发展产生积极影响。系统科学将被应用于破译不同的社会，环境和经济因素，模式和行为的城市流域相互作用，形成一个复杂的系统。网络分析也将用于研究作为动态系统的城市流域，以模拟相互作用并构成城市-流域关系的异质因素。根据会议收集的信息，研讨会的领导者将更好地了解动态系统中环境，社会和经济变量之间的相互作用。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。

As the global population continues to grow, cities must address the challenges and opportunities of urban watersheds, urban and surrounding lands that contribute runoff to a particular water body such as a river. To do this effectively, cities must use a systemic approach that integrates perspectives of science, engineering, design, planning, and policy, while incorporating input from citizens along the water's edge. The "Future Cities, Livable Futures: Toward a Sustainable Model for Urban-Watershed Systems" workshop will be held at the University of Texas at Arlington in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex on August 16 and 17, 2019, to discuss approaches to these complex problems. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss and evaluate the environmental impacts from transportation and related infrastructure systems, climate change, and economic and population growth on the Trinity River Watershed from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to examine the complexities of urban-watershed systems. The future of the Trinity River Watershed will be re-envisioned as a relevant model for future urban watershed management and planning across the United States. The workshop will provide a great platform to introduce cross-disciplinary dialogues around urban-watershed management, explore best practices, and explain and better understand the different factors that interact to form an urban-watershed system. This workshop will result in an interdisciplinary research partnership targeted at developing a research initiative on the creation and stewardship of sustainable urban watershed systems.This workshop will incorporate a unique participatory approach with design and systems thinking to explore the needs of different stakeholders and the concrete constraints that hydrological and human-made systems impose on urban watersheds, while also examining the manner in which these needs and constraints reinforce social inequity and economic disparity. This approach will begin with cross-sector presentations on best practices and lead to a hands-on re-imagination of the future of the Trinity River Watershed system. With inputs from participants, the principal investigators will identify activities and research areas that will engage stakeholders and collaborators in future endeavors with positive impacts on future urban watershed development in the DFW region and other cities in the United States. Systems sciences will be applied to decipher how different social, environmental, and economic factors, patterns, and behaviors of the urban watershed interact to form a complex system. Network analysis will also be used for the study of the urban watershed as a dynamic system in order to simulate the heterogeneous factors that interact and constitute urban-watershed relationships. Based on the information gathered from the conference, the workshop leaders will better understand the interactions among environmental, social, and economic variables within a dynamic system.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.