IRES Track 1: Nature-Based Solutions Research in Urban Latin America: International Research Experience for Students (NBS-RULA-IRES)

IRES 轨道 1：拉丁美洲城市基于自然的解决方案研究：学生的国际研究经验 (NBS-RULA-IRES)

• 批准号: 2107545
• 负责人: Nancy Grimm
• 金额: $ 29.23万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2107545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Track; Nature; Based; Solutions

Cities all over the world are looking for innovative ways of envisioning and implementing nature-based solutions to complex urban development challenges in the context of global climate change. Latin American cities offer unique opportunities for North American students to build critical skills for working across diverse social and political cultures while learning from scientists and professionals about ways of advancing more resilient and sustainable cities. In collaboration with the NATURA (NATure-based solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene) project, this International Research Experience for Students (IRES) project supports the training and development of 15 students in cross-cultural and international research approaches that advance a scientific and cultural understanding of the benefits of nature-based solutions in urban areas. For three years, this program will bring together a cohort of five U.S. undergraduate and graduate students annually to spend ten weeks learning from host city professionals and scientists about creative solutions that respond to local needs in Guayaquil (Ecuador, 2022), Santiago (Chile, 2023), and Hermosillo (México, 2024). Furthermore, students will participate in an interdisciplinary, bilingual, online spring-semester course co-taught with faculty from their host country, to develop their research proposals and become familiar with the local context prior to departure. Training a new generation of students capable of tackling climate change and urbanization requires crucial social competencies not traditionally taught in universities, such as collaboration skills and the ability to communicate and navigate across different disciplines and sectors in society. Students in this IRES project are developing these skills through direct field experience with a collaborative research team to understand and intervene in the environmental and social challenges of urbanization and climate change across diverse cultural contexts in Latin American cities. In Latin America, where many cities face climatic and other environmental threats compounded by rapid urbanization and growth, the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) offers an alternative development pathway with the potential to satisfy social, ecological, and infrastructural needs. Despite their promise, NBS have not been broadly incorporated into academic research nor into regional planning agendas. We propose an International Research Experience for Students (IRES) program that will be linked to the NATURA (NATure-based solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene) project, focusing on working with local practitioners and scientists in Latin American cities to study, envision, and develop innovative NBS to urban challenges. The main objective of the proposed program is to help students learn to work across diverse social and political cultures so that they may be effective change agents in the Anthropocene. This IRES program will bring a cohort of five undergraduate and graduate students each year for ten weeks to Guayaquil (Ecuador, 2022), Santiago (Chile, 2023), and Hermosillo (México, 2024), with Bogotá (Colombia) and San José (Costa Rica) as alternates. As part of their training, US graduate students will participate in an interdisciplinary, bilingual, online spring-semester course co-taught with faculty from their host country, which will help them to develop their research proposals and become familiar with the local context prior to departure. Mentors at the host institutions, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil (ESPOL), Universidad Mayor in Santiago (UM), Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora in Hermosillo (ITSON), Universidad de LaSalle in Bogotá (ULS), and Universidad de Costa Rica in San José (UCR) are, or will become, collaborators of NATURA and are already leading research on NBS in these cities. In this proposal, we emphasize student creativity and fit with the local context; hence, each year potential research topics will change in response to specific needs. Graduate students will write research proposals as part of their applications and further refine them in the course; undergraduate students will develop small projects within the context of graduate student or host research during their stay. As part of the IRES program, all students will have experience with transdisciplinary, collaborative research on environmental and social challenges in Latin American cities. Ancillary benefits to U.S. students will include cultural understanding and language learning, and projects that potentially integrate with their dissertation or honors research and contribute to the overall knowledge-to-action efforts in the host city, all of which will contribute to the development of a globally engaged U.S. workforce in climate sciences research and practice.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.

世界各地的城市都在寻找创新的方式来设想和实施基于自然的解决方案，以应对全球气候变化背景下复杂的城市发展挑战。拉丁美洲城市为北美学生提供了独特的机会，使他们能够培养在不同社会和政治文化中工作的关键技能，同时向科学家和专业人士学习如何推进更具弹性和可持续性的城市。在与NATURA（基于自然的解决方案，在人类世的城市韧性）项目合作，这个国际研究经验的学生（IRES）项目支持培训和发展的15名学生在跨文化和国际研究方法，推进科学和文化的理解自然为基础的解决方案在城市地区的好处。三年来，该计划将汇集五名美国本科生和研究生，每年花十周的时间从主办城市的专业人士和科学家那里学习创造性的解决方案，以满足瓜亚基尔（厄瓜多尔，2022年），圣地亚哥（智利，2023年）和埃莫西约（梅西科，2024年）的当地需求。此外，学生将参加与东道国教师共同教授的跨学科，双语，在线春季学期课程，以制定他们的研究计划，并在出发前熟悉当地环境。培养能够应对气候变化和城市化的新一代学生需要具备传统上大学不教授的关键社会能力，例如协作技能以及跨社会不同学科和部门的沟通和导航能力。这个IRES项目的学生通过与合作研究团队的直接实地经验来开发这些技能，以了解和干预拉丁美洲城市不同文化背景下城市化和气候变化的环境和社会挑战。在拉丁美洲，许多城市面临着气候和其他环境威胁，快速的城市化和增长加剧了这些威胁，自然解决方案（NBS）的部署提供了一种替代发展途径，有可能满足社会，生态和基础设施需求。尽管国家统计局前景看好，但它并没有被广泛纳入学术研究或区域规划议程。我们提出了一个国际学生研究经验（IRES）计划，该计划将与NATURA（基于自然的人类世城市弹性解决方案）项目相关联，重点是与拉丁美洲城市的当地从业者和科学家合作，研究，设想和开发创新的NBS以应对城市挑战。该计划的主要目标是帮助学生学习在不同的社会和政治文化中工作，使他们成为人类世的有效变革者。该IRES计划将每年将一批五名本科生和研究生带到瓜亚基尔（厄瓜多尔，2022年），圣地亚哥（智利，2023年）和埃莫西约（梅西科，2024年），为期十周，博戈塔（哥伦比亚）和圣何塞（哥斯达黎加）作为候补。作为培训的一部分，美国研究生将参加一个跨学科，双语，在线春季学期课程，与东道国的教师共同授课，这将帮助他们制定研究计划，并在出发前熟悉当地环境。主办机构的导师，瓜亚基尔的Escuela上级Politécnica del文学的（ESPOL），圣地亚哥的Universidad Mayor（UM），埃莫西约的Instituto Tecnológico de索诺拉（ITSON），博戈塔的LaSalle大学（ULS）和圣何塞的哥斯达黎加大学（UCR）都是或将成为NATURA的合作者，并且已经在这些城市领导NBS的研究。在这项建议中，我们强调学生的创造力和适合当地的背景;因此，每年潜在的研究课题将根据具体需求而变化。研究生将撰写研究提案作为其应用程序的一部分，并在课程中进一步完善它们;本科生将在研究生的背景下开发小项目或在逗留期间主持研究。作为IRES计划的一部分，所有学生都将在拉丁美洲城市的环境和社会挑战方面进行跨学科的合作研究。对美国学生的辅助好处将包括文化理解和语言学习，以及可能与他们的论文或荣誉研究相结合的项目，并有助于主办城市的整体知识到行动的努力，所有这些都将有助于发展全球参与气候科学研究和实践的美国劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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。