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.

用于灌溉的地下水是美国众多农业社区生存的基础，也是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地区被过度开采，威胁到依赖它的人的社会和经济生存能力。堪萨斯西部和科罗拉多中南部的灌溉者正在制定社区一级的地下水使用和管理规则，以保护含水层和他们的生计--这是地下水公共自治的一个新实验。这些自治制度的初步成功促使其迅速传播，并通过经验和规则设计从一个社区向另一个社区的转移，导致在各社区采用相对类似的规则。然而，在干旱或商品市场波动等冲击下，这些类似的自治制度的长期有效性、复原力和适应性仍然存在问题。这项工作将探索这些问题，并帮助依赖地下水的农业社区制定更有效，更有弹性和适应性的地下水管理策略。项目团队将努力不仅将及时的发现带到迫切的社会需求，而且还培养跨学科科学的本科生和研究生，使他们能够帮助解决社会面临的棘手的可持续发展问题。该项目将为解释个人和机构如何促进社会环境系统有效性、复原力和适应性的新理论提供经验基础。具体而言，这项工作将回答重要的，但研究不足，有关的过程，动态和地下水自治制度的脆弱性的问题。这项工作将紧密结合自然科学和社会科学的研究，以推进关于自治安排的传播及其与自然和社会因素的相互作用如何共同影响依赖地下水的社区的可持续性和复原力的理论。研究计划的基础是社会和环境数据的融合，这将支撑一个新的综合模型，该模型代表社会（灌溉者和机构）和环境（含水层和土地）领域之间复杂，动态的相互作用和反馈。总体目标是发展新的理论，社会环境和机构的多样性（或缺乏）如何决定的有效性，弹性和适应性的地下水自治制度在当前条件下，并在社会和环境的变化。实现这一目标将促进更广泛的理解和理论的公共池资源管理和图表路径为地下水依赖的农业community.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

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.

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

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.