SRS RN: Transforming Rural-Urban Systems: Trajectories for Sustainability in the Intermountain West

SRS RN：城乡系统转型：西部山区可持续发展的轨迹

• 批准号: 2115169
• 负责人: Melinda Morgan
• 金额: $ 1499.97万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-15 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115169&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SRS; RN; Transforming; Rural; Urban

Catastrophic wildfires, dwindling water supplies, and rapid urban population growth are some of the most pressing challenges of the Intermountain West (IMW). However, the current services and resources available to urban and rural systems (URS) in the IMW leave communities ill-equipped to face these issues. The Transforming Rural-Urban Systems: Trajectories for Sustainability in the Intermountain West Research Network (TRUSTS-RN) is a transdisciplinary research effort representing diverse communities, sectors, disciplines, and backgrounds aimed at improving regional sustainability. Using a convergent research and education plan, the Network focuses on how headwaters and headwater dependent systems, regional food-energy-water systems, and innovative institutions and approaches to governance can be integrated to help direct URS along trajectories that result in a sustainable future for humans and the environment. Network research projects and educational activities are designed to co- produce knowledge with regional partners and utilize a novel framework for Guided Transformation (GT) that incorporates diverse perspectives, includes Indigenous and place-based knowledge, and values community and environmental well-being. Over the course of five years, the Network aims to: (1) improve understanding of inter-linked URS system feedbacks, processes and actors; (2) create a diverse and engaged network of IMW partners to advance understanding of community needs and explore sustainable solutions; (3) train a new cohort of scientists and leaders with expertise in convergent, complex systems thinking; and (4) record and share the processes for developing sustainable URS through a GT framework.This Network uses a convergent research approach to explore how a GT framework can be employed to build synergistic system connectivity across urban-rural gradients to promote sustainable cities, landscapes, and livelihoods across the IMW. The TRUSTS-RN’s diverse academic disciplines and non- academic partnerships will embrace and integrate western and Indigenous cultural knowledge and use a system-of-systems research approach to advance the theory and applied knowledge of the dynamics, resilience, and transformational opportunities of URS. In so doing, the Network will increase traditional and western knowledge of regional sustainability with cultural open-mindedness and scientific granularity, while identifying and addressing real-world ecosystem issues and community challenges. Through broad cross-disciplinary integration, the Network targets creation of impact through fundamental and use-inspired science projects, advancing sustainability science through regional-scale implementation of projects in the IMW. The Network intends to advance GT theories for collaboratively and equitably transforming URS structures and processes towards sustainability.This project is co-funded by the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This project is also co-funded by the HSI Program which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

灾难性的野火、日益减少的供水和快速的城市人口增长是Intermountain West（IMW）面临的一些最紧迫的挑战。然而，目前IMW的城乡系统可获得的服务和资源使社区没有能力面对这些问题。改造农村-城市系统：山间西部研究网络（TRUSTS-RN）的可持续发展轨迹是一项跨学科的研究工作，代表了不同的社区，部门，学科和背景，旨在提高区域可持续性。该网络采用一项趋同的研究和教育计划，重点关注如何将源头和依赖源头的系统、区域粮食-能源-水系统以及创新的机构和治理方法整合起来，以帮助引导URS沿着轨道发展，从而为人类和环境创造一个可持续的未来。网络研究项目和教育活动旨在与区域合作伙伴共同产生知识，并利用一个新的指导转型框架，该框架纳入了不同的观点，包括土著和基于地方的知识，并重视社区和环境福祉。在五年的时间里，该网络的目标是：（1）提高对城市轨道交通系统相互联系的反馈、进程和行为者的理解;（2）建立一个由国际海事妇女组织伙伴组成的多样化和参与性网络，以促进对社区需求的理解，探索可持续的解决方案;（3）培养一批具有融合、复杂系统思维专门知识的新科学家和领导人;（4）记录和分享通过GT框架发展可持续URS的过程。该网络采用聚合研究方法，探索如何利用GT框架建立跨城乡梯度的协同系统连接，以促进整个IMW的可持续城市，景观和生计。TRUSTS-RN的不同学科和非学术合作伙伴关系将接受和整合西方和土著文化知识，并使用系统的系统研究方法来推进URS的动态，弹性和转型机会的理论和应用知识。在这样做的过程中，该网络将增加传统和西方的区域可持续性知识，具有文化开放性和科学粒度，同时确定和解决现实世界的生态系统问题和社区挑战。通过广泛的跨学科整合，该网络的目标是通过基本和实用的科学项目产生影响，通过在IMW区域范围内实施项目来推进可持续性科学。该网络旨在推进GT理论，以合作和公平的方式将URS结构和流程转变为可持续发展。该项目由刺激竞争力研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该项目也由HSI计划共同资助，该计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建立HSI的能力。实现这些目标，鉴于不同的性质和背景下的HSIs，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（一）参与学生学习，（二）关于如何有效地多样化和增加STEM的参与，以及（三）提高我们对如何在HSIs建立机构能力的理解。HSI计划所支持的项目也将从这些方法中汲取经验，以产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF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。

项目成果

The Three Colorado Rivers: Hydrologic, Infrastructural, and Economic Flows of Water in a Shared River Basin

科罗拉多三河：共享河流流域的水文、基础设施和经济水流

• DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12997
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
• 作者: Rushforth, Richard R.;Zegre, Nicolas P.;Ruddell, Benjamin L.
• 通讯作者: Ruddell, Benjamin L.

Human–river relationships depend on human–human relationships: River and watershed organizations in three western US states

人与河流的关系取决于人与人的关系：美国西部三个州的河流和流域组织

• DOI: 10.1002/rra.4136
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: River Research and Applications
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Flint, Courtney G.;Holdaway, Bailey M.;Rogers, Caitlyn S.
• 通讯作者: Rogers, Caitlyn S.

Respectful Tribal Partnership: What Philanthropy Can Learn From the Navajo Nation’s Collaborative Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

相互尊重的部落伙伴关系：慈善事业可以从纳瓦霍族部落对 COVID-19 危机的协作应对中学到什么

• DOI: 10.9707/1944-5660.1611
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The Foundation Review
• 作者: Petersen, Nancy;Chief, Karletta;Massaro, Toni M.;Tulley, Nikki;Tulley-Cordova, Crystal;Vold, Jonelle
• 通讯作者: Vold, Jonelle

Mapping local food self-sufficiency in the U.S. and the tradeoffs for food system diversity

绘制美国当地粮食自给自足情况以及粮食系统多样性的权衡

• DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102687
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Applied geography
• 影响因子: 4.9
• 作者: Bingham, D. R.;Rushforth, R. R.;Stevens, B.;Ruddell, B. L.
• 通讯作者: Ruddell, B. L.

It takes a team: Tackling water quality challenges and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation

需要一个团队：应对纳瓦霍族部落的水质挑战和 COVID-19

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Water Resources IMPACT Magazine
• 作者: Hoover, J.