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

由自然灾害引发的国家和州突发事件一再发生，给美国的人类生活造成了前所未有的干扰。典型的过程开发倾向于将重点放在个人科学发现上，而不是技术商业化。在灾害条件下，区域城乡互联系统的不同需要要求将科学和循证的共同知识生产与社会和生态考虑结合起来，以创造对灾害周期具有复原力的技术干预措施。这项SRS-RN规划拨款旨在建立一个研究计划，该计划将开发一类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(少数)的基本需求，同时增强生态和社区对灾难的韧性。规划拨款将汇集来自学术和非学术机构和相关利益相关者团体的不同专家小组，以开发共同产生的具体研究问题、融合方法和有意义的团队组建，并开展密集的利益相关者参与活动。该规划拨款的区域系统在地理上由灾害多发和受灾害影响的地区组成，包括德克萨斯州(德克萨斯州)、路易斯安那州(洛杉矶)和密西西比州(密西西比州)城市化地区、城市群和/或农村地区的组合。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、技术提供商和生态倡导团体将被视为区域系统的组成部分。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。食物、能源和水网络，重点放在结合较少的需求上，而社交网络将是研究的网络。这一规划赠款的团队有来自墨西哥湾沿岸三个公立大学系统(德克萨斯州、洛杉矶和密苏里州)的代表，以吸引脆弱和关键生态区域的地理相关利益攸关方参与。非学术合作伙伴包括AIChE快速制造研究所、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，以实现可持续性和弹性。具体的重点领域包括过程系统、少数关联、区域生物产品、生态系统、发展经济学和城市规划。明年将举办三个联合规划和执行的讲习班、道路绘制活动、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)食品、能源和水领域抗灾综合技术系统设计的改进方法，2)适应、恢复、实施、向治理和政策制定者提供信息的战略和方法，在国家紧急情况/危机时期保护人类和环境健康，以及3)教育和发展具有文化多样性和包容性的社区(和劳动力)，以促进抗灾可持续区域系统。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。

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.