SRS RN: Integrated Food, Energy, Water Units for Disaster Resilient Sustainable Regional Systems

SRS RN：用于抗灾可持续区域系统的综合粮食、能源、水单位

• 批准号: 2115442
• 负责人: Debalina Sengupta
• 金额: $ 14.95万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 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: 2021-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115442&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SRS; RN; Integrated; Food; Energy

Repeated national and state emergencies from natural disasters have created unprecedented disruptions in human lives in the United States. Typical process development tends to focus on individual scientific discovery towards technology commercialization. Varying needs of regional rural-urban interconnected systems under disaster conditions require a convergence of scientific and evidence-based co-production of knowledge with societal and ecological considerations to create resilient technological interventions to the disaster cycle. This SRS-RN planning grant aims to build toward a research program that will develop a new class of multi-faceted resilient systems to facilitate rural-urban connected communities in sustainably managing their basic needs of food, energy, and water (FEW) while enhancing ecological and community resilience to disasters. The planning grant will bring together a diverse group of experts from academic and non-academic institutions and relevant stakeholder groups for developing the specific co-produced research questions, convergence approach, and meaningful team formation with intensive stakeholder engagement activities.The regional system for this planning grant is geographically comprised of disaster-prone and disaster-impacted areas including combinations of urbanized areas, urban clusters, and/or rural areas for the states of Texas (TX), Louisiana (LA) and Mississippi (MS). Communities, municipalities, local, regional, state, and federal governments, social capital organizations, educational and research institutions, technology providers, and ecological advocacy groups will be considered as components of regional systems. Disasters to be considered include hurricane-related impacts (flooding and storm surge) and long-term climate-related impacts. Food, energy, and water networks, with a focus on combined FEW needs, and social networks will be the networks of study. The team for this planning grant has representation from three public university systems in the Gulf Coast (TX, LA and MS) to engage the geographically relevant stakeholders in vulnerable and critical ecological regions. Non-academic partners include the AIChE RAPID Manufacturing Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Argonne National Laboratory, and an international partner, Observer Research Foundation. The team has expertise in technology, economics, governance, and policy domains for sustainability and resilience. Specific focus areas include process systems, FEW Nexus, regional bioproducts, ecological systems, development economics, and urban planning. Three jointly planned and executed workshops, road-mapping activities, in-person stakeholder meetings, surveys, webinars, and outreach will be held during the next year. Activities from this phase are targeted to support detailed concept development for 1) enhanced methodologies for design of disaster-resilient integrated technological systems in the area of food, energy, and water, 2) strategies and methods of adaptation, restoration, implementation, informing governance and policy makers, protection of human and environmental health, and economic robustness in times of national emergencies/crises, and 3) education and development of culturally diverse and inclusive communities (and workforce) for disaster-resilient 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.

自然灾害造成的国家和州的紧急情况一再发生，给美国人民的生活造成了前所未有的破坏。典型的工艺开发往往侧重于个人科学发现，以实现技术商业化。在灾害条件下，区域城乡互联系统的需求各不相同，需要将科学和循证知识的共同生产与社会和生态考虑相结合，以制定对灾害周期具有复原力的技术干预措施。该SRS-RN规划拨款旨在建立一个研究计划，该计划将开发一种新的多方面弹性系统，以促进城乡连接的社区可持续地管理其对食物，能源和水的基本需求（FEW），同时增强生态和社区对灾害的抵御能力。规划补助金将汇集来自学术和非学术机构以及相关利益相关者团体的多元化专家组，以制定具体的共同制作的研究问题，融合方法，以及有意义的团队组建，并开展密集的利益相关者参与活动。该规划补助金的区域系统在地理上由灾害易发和受灾害影响的地区组成，包括城市化地区，城市群，和/或德克萨斯州（TX）、路易斯安那州（LA）和密西西比州（MS）的农村地区。社区、市政当局、地方、地区、州和联邦政府、社会资本组织、教育和研究机构、技术提供者和生态倡导团体将被视为区域系统的组成部分。需要考虑的灾害包括与飓风有关的影响（洪水和风暴潮）和与气候有关的长期影响。粮食、能源和水网络，重点放在少数人的综合需求上，以及社交网络将是研究的网络。该规划补助金的团队有来自墨西哥湾沿岸（德克萨斯州，洛杉矶和MS）的三个公立大学系统的代表，以吸引脆弱和关键生态区域的地理相关利益相关者。非学术合作伙伴包括AIChE快速制造研究所、大自然保护协会、阿贡国家实验室和国际合作伙伴观察者研究基金会。该团队拥有技术、经济、治理和政策领域的专业知识，以实现可持续性和复原力。具体的重点领域包括过程系统、FEW Nexus、区域生物产品、生态系统、发展经济学和城市规划。明年将举行三次联合规划和执行的讲习班、路线图活动、利益攸关方面对面会议、调查、网络研讨会和外联活动。这一阶段的活动旨在支持以下方面的详细概念发展：（1）加强粮食、能源和水领域抗灾综合技术系统的设计方法，（2）适应、恢复、执行、向治理和决策者提供信息、保护人类和环境健康以及在国家紧急情况/危机时保持经济活力的战略和方法，以及3）教育和发展文化多样性和包容性的社区（和劳动力），以建立具有抗灾能力的可持续区域系统。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。