SRS-RN Planning Grant: Integrated and Convergent Sea Level Adaptation for Urban and Rural Systems in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Regions

拟议的规划赠款将解决位于墨西哥湾沿海地区（GCR）沿着的城乡联系系统应对海平面上升（SLR）的挑战。大湖区的城市和农村地区是由相互依存的节点组成的地理连续体的一部分，这些节点通过协同联系相互连接，其中城市地区依靠农村地区获得自然资源，农村地区依靠城市地区获得服务。SLR威胁到大湖区将城市和农村社区联系在一起的纽带。与世界上大部分地区相比，大中华地区大部分地区的单点激光测距率相当高，而且地势较低的海岸平原。此外，弱势少数群体在该区域的城市和农村人口中占很大比例，造成社会高度脆弱。在大湖区，典型的SLR应对战略在城市和农村地区的实施往往有所不同。这项规划赠款的目的是建立一个综合的SLR适应战略，使城市和农村社区能够合作维持将它们联系在一起的自然和物质基础设施。所提议的方法将由专家的综合研究和利益攸关方参与共同产生的知识和想法驱动。该项目团队将汇集一个包容性和多样化的研究人员，社区领导人和决策者谁通常不互动的群体。该小组将创造趋同的研究成果，并促进利益攸关方的关系，以建立一个合作的轨道1可持续区域系统研究网络（SRS-RN）的建议。这项工作的执行将遵循三个阶段的轨迹：（1）将使用在线高性能Charrette来协调合作研究人员和利益相关者，并组装网络的基础，（2）将使用亲自Charrette来共同产生拟议SRS-RN的研究优先事项和假设，（3）一个集中的专家讲习班将整合这些努力并综合产出产品。这项规划补助金是一个独特的机会，（a）合并跨学科团队，专注于城乡联系的共性，（B）确定不同利益相关者的优先事项，需求和激励措施，（c）在这些社区建立知识和信任，以及（d）制定研究目标，假设和创新研究网络结构的方法。网络活动的重点将是纳入少数选区，团体，和机构，一直被排除在历史上的SLR响应conversation.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The proposed planning grant will address the challenge of responding to sea level rise (SLR) in linked urban-rural systems located along the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Region (GCR). Urban and rural areas in the GCR are part of a geographical continuum composed of interdependent nodes connected by synergistic linkages, wherein the urban areas depend on the rural areas for natural resources and the rural areas depend on the urban areas for services. SLR threatens the links that bind urban and rural communities together in the GCR. Compared with much of the world, the rate of SLR is quite high across much of the GCR and its landscape is a relatively low-lying coastal plain. Moreover, disadvantaged minority groups compose a large fraction of both the urban and rural population in this region, yielding a high degree of social vulnerability. The typical SLR response strategies in the GCR are often practiced differentially across urban versus rural areas. The aim of this planning grant is to build a consolidated SLR adaptation strategy that enables urban and rural communities to collaboratively sustain the natural and physical infrastructure that links them together. The proposed approach will be driven by convergent research of experts and by co-production of knowledge and ideas from stakeholder engagement. The project team will bring together an inclusive and diverse group of researchers, community leaders, and policy makers who do not normally interact. This group will create convergent research outputs and foster stakeholder relationships to build a collaborative Track 1 Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS-RN) proposal. The execution of this effort will follow a trajectory with three phases: (1) an on-line high-performance charrette will be used to coordinate partnering researchers and stakeholders, and assemble the foundations of the network, (2) an in-person charrette will be used to co-produce research priorities and hypotheses for the proposed SRS-RN, (3) a concentered expert workshop will integrate these efforts and synthesize the output products. This planning grant is a unique opportunity to (a) coalesce interdisciplinary teams, focus on the commonalities at the urban-rural linkages, (b) identify priorities, needs, and incentives of diverse stakeholders, (c) build knowledge and trust across these communities, and (d) formulate the research objectives, hypotheses, and methods for an innovative research network structure. Network activities will focus on the inclusion of minority constituencies, groups, and institutions that have been historically excluded from the SLR response conversation.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.