SRS RN: Shared destinies: Hydro-social infrastructures for community involvement and sustainability in fragmented border regions

边境地区面临着独特的可持续性挑战。这项可持续区域系统规划拨款的重点是影响美墨边境三个主要地区的水问题，包括圣地亚哥/蒂华纳、埃尔帕索/城Juárez和里约热内卢格兰德/巴霍布拉沃河谷下游地区。该项目旨在绘制这些区域的研究资源、社区合作伙伴和社会基础设施，参与者将与边境利益相关者合作，确定与水有关的可持续性问题并将其优先考虑。来自德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校、德克萨斯大学格兰德谷分校和加州大学圣地亚哥分校的研究人员将在每个地点合作举办两个两国双语研讨会，以吸引社区合作伙伴，并划定水问题、障碍和资产。该小组还将进行一项调查，为水资源问题、障碍和资产提供更广泛、更定量的视角。最后，研究人员将系统地收集和分析这些环境中有关水的现有数据、文献、报告等。通过这些活动，研究小组将与跨越复杂关系、不平等、文化和语言差异以及政治分裂的边境地区的民间社会和政府共同产生知识。可持续性挑战在诸如国际边界等连接点加剧，在这些地方，不同的人、商品、价值观和规则聚集在一起进行交流和中介。边界上的城乡集聚区构成了一个人口众多、快速增长的独特区域单元群体。美墨边境是世界上贫富差距最大的地区之间人口最密集的地带，也是规模最大、发展最活跃、压力最大的地区之一。该规划项目将通过描绘三个关键的边界动态来促进可持续性领域，包括因繁荣和能力而明显分开的人口之间的相互社会环境联系，共享和管理共同资源的跨界合作，以及政府、文化、语言和数据部门之间的协调。特别是，“公地”这一关键的科学和公共概念将在边界站点受到挑战并得到进一步发展，这些站点代表着因繁荣和其他内在联系的能力而划分的人口。总的来说，这项研究工作将建立一个关于可持续区域系统的全面合作研究项目。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。

Border agglomerations face distinctive sustainability challenges. This Sustainable Regional Systems planning grant is focused on water issues affecting three major zones along the U.S.-Mexico border that involve the San Diego/Tijuana, El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, and lower Rio Grande/Bajo Bravo Valley agglomerations. The project aims to map research resources, community partners, and the social infrastructure of these zones, and the participants will work collaboratively with border stakeholders to identify and prioritize water-related sustainability issues. Researchers from the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and the University of California, San Diego will collaborate on two binational, bilingual workshops in each site to engage community partners and to delineate water issues, barriers, and assets. The team also will conduct a survey to offer a broader and more quantitative perspective on water issues, barriers, and assets. Finally, the researchers will pursue a systematic collection and analysis of existing data, literature, reports, etc. on water in these settings. Through these activities, the research team will co-generate knowledge with civil society and government across a border region defined by complex relations, inequalities, cultural and linguistic differences, and political division.Sustainability challenges intensify at linkage sites, such as international borders, where differentiated people, goods, values, and rules come together for exchange and intermediation. Urban-rural agglomerations at borders constitute a populous, rapidly growing cohort of distinctive regional units. The U.S.-Mexico border, the most populated seam between regions of differing wealth in the world, has amongst the largest, most dynamically growing, and most stressed agglomerations. This planning project will contribute to the field of sustainability by delineating three critical border dynamics including the mutual socio-environmental linkage of populations that are divided markedly by prosperity and capacities, the transboundary cooperation in sharing and management of common resources, and the coordination across divisions of government, culture, language, and data. In particular, the key scientific and public concept of “commons” will be challenged and further developed at border sites that represent populations divided by prosperity and other capacities that are inherently linked. Overall, this research work will build towards a fully co-produced research project on sustainable regional systems.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.