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新英格兰沿海带来了风险和机遇。北极冰融化通过航运、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。更有弹性的地区可能会有更多来自更脆弱地区的移民。虽然许多社区正在制定当地沿海适应计划，重点关注基础设施规划、自然资源管理和应急响应等具体问题，但很少有社区将经济、人口和生态力量全面联系起来。缅因州波特兰的一个研讨会将考虑弹性城市规划和景观设计，这些规划和景观设计需要新英格兰北部的小城市和城镇在2100年成长为未来充满活力、可持续和适应性强的沿海城市。科学、商业、政府、非营利组织和社区团体之间更强有力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计划的范围。研讨会的一个中心目标是确定哪些类型的数据和知识将帮助社区将渐进式调整与更综合的愿景结合起来，以应对不确定的未来，包括城市化、移民和科学与工程领域的变革范例。研讨会讨论将重点强调建筑环境以及更多样化的经济和人口未来对社会生态弹性的影响，从而拥抱不确定性并预测变革。主要成果将是一系列学生实习项目，通过学生学习作为跨界活动，吸引社区和私营企业参与海岸线和人文科学。讲习班的成果将使人们了解沿海地区抵御环境变化和灾害的能力如何与城市化和经济增长协同作用，从而使社会受益。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。

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.