CoPe Conference: Anticipating Economic Growth of Northern New England Coastal Communities: Portland, ME - Fall 2020

不断变化的北极环境给沿海的新英格兰带来了风险和机遇。北极冰川融化通过航运、贸易、资源开采、渔业和旅游业等新的经济活动将北方港口连接起来，尽管它加速了海平面上升、恶劣天气和其他生态变化。更具弹性的地区预计会有更多来自更脆弱地区的移民。虽然许多社区正在制定侧重于基础设施规划、自然资源管理和应急反应等具体问题的当地沿海适应计划，但将经济、人口和生态力量全面联系在一起的社区较少。在缅因州波特兰举行的研讨会将讨论新英格兰北部较小城市和城镇成长为未来充满活力、可持续和适应性强的2100年沿海城市所需的弹性城市规划和景观设计。加强科学、商业、政府、非营利组织和社区团体之间的伙伴关系，将推动对有远见的未来的探索，并扩大为沿海气候适应提供信息的研究和教育倡议的范围。研讨会的中心目标是确定哪些类型的数据和知识将帮助社区将增量调整与对涉及城市化、迁入和科学和工程中的变革性范式的不确定未来的更综合愿景相结合。研讨会讨论将突出建筑环境和更加多样化的经济和人口未来对社会生态复原力的影响，从而拥抱不确定性和预期变革性变化。主要成果将是一系列学生实习项目，通过将学生学习作为一项跨越国界的活动，让社区和私营企业参与海岸线和人文科学。研讨会的成果将使社会受益，通过了解沿海地区对环境变化和灾害的适应能力如何与城市化和经济增长协同作用。该奖项反映了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。

The changing Arctic environment brings both risk and opportunity to coastal New England. Arctic ice melt connects northern ports through new economic activities such as shipping, trade, resource extraction, fishing, and tourism, even as it accelerates sea level rise, severe weather, and other ecological changes. More resilient locales can expect increased migration from more vulnerable areas. While many communities are developing local coastal adaptation plans focused on specific problems such as infrastructure planning, natural resource management, and emergency response, fewer are comprehensively linking economic, demographic, and ecological forces. A workshop in Portland, Maine will consider the resilient urban planning and landscape design needed for smaller cities and towns of northern New England to grow into the future vibrant, sustainable, and adaptable coastal cities of 2100. Stronger partnerships among scientific, business, governmental, non-profit, and neighborhood groups will advance the exploration of visionary futures and expand the scope of research and educational initiatives that inform coastal climate adaptation.A central workshop goal is to determine what types of data and knowledge will help communities align incremental adjustments with more integrated visioning of uncertain futures involving urbanization, in-migration, and transformative paradigms in science and engineering. Workshop discussions will highlight the built environment and implications of more diversified economic and demographic futures for socio-ecological resilience, thereby embracing uncertainty and anticipating transformative change. A primary outcome will be a collection of student internship projects engaging communities and private industry in coastlines and people science through student learning as a boundary spanning activity. Workshop outcomes will benefit society by developing an understanding of how coastal resilience to environmental variability and hazards might synergize with urbanization and economic growth.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.