DISES: Toward resilient and adaptive community-driven management of groundwater dependent agricultural systems

DISES：对依赖地下水的农业系统进行弹性和适应性社区驱动的管理

• 批准号: 2108196
• 负责人: Landon Marston
• 金额: $ 160万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2108196&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Toward; resilient; adaptive; community

Groundwater for irrigation is foundational to the viability of numerous US farming communities, as well as the national and global food supplies they support. Yet, this natural resource is being overexploited in many areas, threatening the social and economic viability of those that depend on it. Irrigators in western Kansas and south-central Colorado are developing community-level rules regulating groundwater use and management in an effort to preserve the aquifer and their livelihoods – a novel experiment in self-governance of groundwater commons. The initial success of these self-governance regimes has prompted their rapid spread, facilitated by a transfer of experience and rule design from one community to another, resulting in the adoption of relatively similar rules across the communities. However, questions remain regarding the long-term effectiveness, resilience, and adaptability of these similar self-governance regimes under shocks, such as drought or volatile commodity markets. This work will explore these questions and help groundwater dependent agriculture communities create more effective, resilient, and adaptive groundwater management strategies. The project team will strive to not only bring timely findings to a pressing societal need but also to train undergraduate and graduate students in interdisciplinary science so they are positioned to help solve the vexing sustainability issues that confront society. The project will provide an empirical basis for new theory explaining how individuals and institutions contribute to socio-environmental system effectiveness, resilience, and adaptability. Specifically, the work will answer important, but understudied, questions related to the processes, dynamics, and vulnerabilities of groundwater self-governance regimes. The work will tightly integrate research in both natural and social sciences to advance theory on how the spread of self-governance arrangements, and their interplay with natural and social factors, collectively influence the sustainability and resilience of groundwater-dependent communities. Foundational to the research plan is the convergence of social and environmental data that will underpin a novel integrated model representing complex, dynamic interactions and feedback between social (irrigators and institutions) and environmental (aquifer and land) realms. The overall goal is to develop new theory of how socio-environmental and institutional diversity (or lack thereof) determines the effectiveness, resilience, and adaptability of groundwater self-governance regimes under current conditions and in response to social and environmental change. Achieving this goal will advance broader understanding and theory of common-pool resource management and chart paths forward for groundwater dependent agriculture communities.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.

灌溉地下水是众多美国农业社区以及他们支持的国家和全球粮食供应的基础。然而，这种自然资源在许多领域都被过度开发，威胁着那些依靠它的人的社会和经济可行性。堪萨斯州西部和中南部科罗拉多州的灌溉者正在制定有关地下水使用和管理的社区级规则，以保护含水层及其生计 - 这是一种在地下水自治的新实验。这些自治制度的最初成功促使了它们的迅速传播，这是通过从一个社区转移到另一个社区的经验和规则设计来准备的，从而导致了整个社区中相对相似的规则。但是，关于这些类似的自治制度（例如干旱或波动性商品市场）的长期有效性，韧性和适应性的问题仍然存在。这项工作将探讨这些问题，并帮助地下水依赖的农业社区创造更有效，依赖和自适应地下水管理策略。项目团队将不仅努力为紧迫的社会需求带来及时的发现，而且还培训了跨学科科学的本科生和研究生，因此他们有能力帮助解决社会面临的烦人的可持续性问题。该项目将为新理论提供经验基础，解释个人和机构如何促进社会环境系统的有效性，韧性和适应性。具体而言，这项工作将回答重要但可以理解的问题，即与地下水自治制度的过程，动态和脆弱性有关的问题。这项工作将紧密整合自然科学和社会科学的研究，以提高理论关于自治安排的传播以及它们与自然和社会因素的相互作用如何共同影响地下水依赖性社区的可持续性和韧性。研究计划的基础是社会和环境数据的融合，该数据将支持一个新颖的集成模型，该模型代表了社会（灌溉者和机构）与环境（含水层和土地）之间的复杂，动态互动以及反馈。总体目标是开发新的理论，说明社会环境和制度多样性（或缺乏）如何决定地下水自治制度在当前条件下以及对社会和环境变化的响应的有效性，韧性和适应性。实现这一目标将促进广播公司的理解和对普通池资源管理的理解和理论，并为地下水依赖农业社区带来图表路径。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子的优点和更广泛的影响来审查标准，被认为是通过评估来获得的支持。

项目成果

Are we saving water? Simple methods for assessing the effectiveness of groundwater conservation measures

我们节约用水了吗？

• DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108408
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Agricultural Water Management
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Whittemore, Donald O.;Butler, James J.;Bohling, Geoffrey C.;Wilson, Blake B.
• 通讯作者: Wilson, Blake B.

Market-oriented solutions for groundwater commons through collective-action

通过集体行动以市场为导向的地下水共享解决方案

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acc8ec
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Environmental Research Letters
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Allen, Jonah J.;Smith, Steven M.
• 通讯作者: Smith, Steven M.

Net Inflow: An Important Target on the Path to Aquifer Sustainability

• DOI: 10.1111/gwat.13233
• 发表时间: 2022-08-13
• 期刊: GROUNDWATER
• 影响因子: 2.6
• 作者: Butler, J. J.;Bohling, G. C.;Wilson, B. B.
• 通讯作者: Wilson, B. B.

The importance of fit in groundwater self-governance

地下水自治中适应性的重要性

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9a5e
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Environmental Research Letters
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Marston, Landon T.;Zipper, Sam;Smith, Steven M.;Allen, Jonah J.;Butler, James J.;Gautam, Sukrati;Yu, David J.
• 通讯作者: Yu, David J.

Alleviating water scarcity by optimizing crop mixes

通过优化作物组合缓解水资源短缺

• DOI: 10.1038/s44221-023-00155-9
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Nature Water
• 作者: Richter, Brian D.;Ao, Yufei;Lamsal, Gambhir;Wei, Dongyang;Amaya, Maria;Marston, Landon;Davis, Kyle Frankel
• 通讯作者: Davis, Kyle Frankel