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CAREER: Environmental Impacts of Closed Loop Food Production: Aquaponics as a Case Study

职业：闭环食品生产的环境影响：鱼菜共生作为案例研究

基本信息

批准号：
1942110
负责人：
Andrea Hicks
金额：
$ 50.97万
依托单位：
University of Wisconsin-Madison
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-02-01 至 2025-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1942110&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Environmental Impacts Closed Loop

项目摘要

New food production technologies are needed to feed the increasing global population, which is predominantly expected to inhabit urban areas. One option is aquaponically produced protein and vegetables. Aquaponic food production (where seafood and plants are grown in a closed loop system) is an innovation in food production, particularly with respect to growing food in urban areas. The main goal of this CAREER project is to generate new insights on the sustainability of aquaponics as a food production technology, while engaging students, aquaponic producers, and the general public around the issue of food sustainability. This project will quantify the life-cycle sustainability impacts of shifting food production to aquaponics with respect to the relevant food, energy, and water systems. These insights are critical to evaluating sustainable food production technologies for a growing urban world population.This project will 1) generate comprehensive data and new insight of the environmental and economic impact of aquaponics production at commercial scale across different plant and seafood species, 2) create new life cycle assessment impact categories specifically suited to aquatic food production systems, 3) optimize placement of aquaponic facilities, and 4) develop a new integrated model to be used by researchers and aquaponic facilities for determining their environmental and economic impacts of production. This work involves analysis across multiple scales, species, functional units, impact categories, and boundaries of aquaponic food production, in order to holistically determine the relative sustainability impacts of this novel food production system. This approach is targeted to result in fundamental new ways of conducting life cycle analysis and techno-economic assessment for these systems, which is critical for reducing the impact of future large-scale systems and avoiding potential unintended consequences or burden shifting as the technology is optimized and employed to feed a greater number of people with fewer resources.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.

需要新的粮食生产技术来养活不断增加的全球人口，预计这些人口主要居住在城市地区。一种选择是水产养殖生产的蛋白质和蔬菜。水耕共生食品生产（海鲜和植物在闭环系统中生长）是食品生产的一种创新，特别是在城市地区种植食品方面。这个职业项目的主要目标是对作为食品生产技术的鱼菜共生的可持续性产生新的见解，同时让学生，鱼菜共生生产商和公众围绕食品可持续性问题进行参与。该项目将量化将粮食生产转变为鱼菜共生对相关粮食，能源和水系统的生命周期可持续性影响。这些见解对于评估可持续粮食生产技术以满足日益增长的城市世界人口的需求至关重要。该项目将1）生成不同植物和海产品商业规模的鱼菜共生生产的环境和经济影响的全面数据和新见解，2）创建专门适用于水产食品生产系统的新生命周期评估影响类别，3）优化鱼菜共生设施的布局，4）开发一个新的综合模型，供研究人员和鱼菜共生设施用于确定其生产的环境和经济影响。这项工作涉及跨多个尺度，物种，功能单元，影响类别和鱼菜共生食品生产的边界进行分析，以全面确定这种新型食品生产系统的相对可持续性影响。这一方法的目标是为这些系统的生命周期分析和技术经济评估找到根本性的新方法，这对于减少未来大规模的该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得的。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来提供支持。