SRS-RN: Land Use in Regional Sustainability Transitions: Establishing a Network of Research and Practice to Support Governance in Linked Urban and Rural Systems of Massachusetts

SRS-RN：区域可持续转型中的土地利用：建立研究和实践网络以支持马萨诸塞州城乡关联系统的治理

• 批准号: 2115335
• 负责人: Seth Tuler
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-11-01 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115335&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SRS; RN; Land; Use; Regional

The goal of this project is to promote sustainability and resilience in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through integrated land use planning and management. Using land for one purpose, such as energy generation, can have implications for other purposes, such as sustainable food systems and forest ecosystems. Regional landscapes reflect complex political, economic, social, and cultural forces. Over time, choices made by local, state, regional, and national actors create mosaics of land use with a range of costs and benefits. Future land use choices will affect strategies that are essential to achieve regional sustainability and climate resilience, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions; ensuring food security; supporting healthy economies and communities; and maintaining and enhancing natural environments. However, collaboration and coordination of land use planning and management across actors, regions, and scales is challenging. This project will advance sustainability and climate resilience goals in Massachusetts, support undergraduate and graduate education, and serve as a model for integrated land use governance in other regions with connected urban and rural communities. This project will explore the challenges and opportunities of integrated governance by investigating how land use choices mediate trade-offs, synergies, risks, benefits, and equity among sectors, scales, and communities. To achieve this goal, Tuler and colleagues will expand existing partnerships and lay the foundation for a Massachusetts Integrated Landscape and Land Use Research for Sustainability (MILLURS) Network to support integrated land use planning and management. The Network will be comprised of diverse policymakers, civil society stakeholders, and researchers whose work at multiple scales intersects with land use planning in urban and rural communities. The planning grant aims to 1) characterize the connections among governmental and civil society actors whose efforts impact land use choices; 2) identify the structures and knowledge systems that have common goals or are barriers to integration; 3) co-develop models and identify measures for integrated land use governance goals; and 4) propose a structure for future work and identify potential pilot programs, research questions, and educational activities to accomplish in future efforts. This work will advance the science of sustainable urban-rural regional systems through the lens of land use by drawing together lessons emerging from the MILLURS Network and insights from three streams of scholarship and practice: multi-level governance; integrated knowledge systems and tools for sustainability and resilience; and analytic-deliberative processes to support co-learning and governance among diverse stakeholders. This project will advance collaborative governance by initiating collaboration among sectors where communication and coordination for governance and climate resilience is weak.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.

该项目的目标是通过综合土地利用规划和管理，促进马萨诸塞州联邦的可持续性和复原力。将土地用于一种目的，如发电，可能会对其他目的产生影响，如可持续的粮食系统和森林生态系统。区域景观反映了复杂的政治、经济、社会和文化力量。随着时间的推移，地方、州、地区和国家行为者做出的选择造成了土地使用的马赛克，带来了一系列的成本和收益。未来的土地使用选择将影响对实现区域可持续性和气候复原力至关重要的战略，例如减少温室气体排放；确保粮食安全；支持健康的经济和社区；以及维护和改善自然环境。然而，跨行为者、区域和规模的土地利用规划和管理的协作和协调是具有挑战性的。该项目将推进马萨诸塞州的可持续发展和气候适应目标，支持本科生和研究生教育，并成为其他城乡社区互联互通的地区土地利用综合治理的典范。该项目将通过调查土地使用选择如何协调各部门、规模和社区之间的权衡、协同效应、风险、收益和公平，来探索综合治理的挑战和机遇。为了实现这一目标，Tuler和他的同事们将扩大现有的合作伙伴关系，并为马萨诸塞州可持续发展综合景观和土地利用研究(MILLURS)网络奠定基础，以支持综合土地利用规划和管理。该网络将由不同的政策制定者、民间社会利益攸关方和研究人员组成，他们在多个尺度上的工作与城市和农村社区的土地利用规划相交。规划赠款旨在1)确定其努力影响土地使用选择的政府和民间社会行为者之间的联系；2)确定具有共同目标或阻碍一体化的结构和知识系统；3)共同开发模型和确定综合土地利用治理目标的措施；4)为未来的工作提出一个结构，并确定潜在的试点计划、研究问题和教育活动，以便在未来的工作中完成。这项工作将从土地利用的角度推动可持续城乡区域系统的科学研究，方法是汇集土地利用、土地利用和土地利用网络的经验教训以及三个学术和实践流派的见解：多层次治理；促进可持续性和复原力的综合知识体系和工具；以及支持不同利益攸关方共同学习和治理的分析--审议进程。该项目将通过启动在治理和气候适应能力方面的沟通和协调较弱的部门之间的合作来推进协作治理。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。