SRS RN: Convergent Innovations in Regional CirCULAR Economies (CIRCULAR)

SRS RN：区域循环经济的融合创新 (CIRCULAR)

• 批准号: 2115453
• 负责人: Thomas Theis
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 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: 2021-12-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115453&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SRS; RN; Convergent; Innovations; Regional

A research network organized around the goal of creating and implementing circular economy solutions could address growing social, economic, and environmental impacts facing regional systems. Using a case study based upon the city of Chicago and its surrounding urban-rural linkages, research network planning will explore the underlying system structures and interactions that give rise to unsustainable resource consumption and waste generation. The planning will also identify potential solutions grounded in the emerging field of circular economy. The planning team will engage interdisciplinary researchers and non-academic partners in a process to co-create a research agenda for transforming regional systems towards circular economy. The group also will explore convergent research mechanisms for the deep integration of knowledge, methods, tools, and expertise from diverse perspectives that can advance the study of regional circular economies. Finally, the team will devise a collaborative platform on which the scientific community and key stakeholders can share knowledge, translate findings, and enhance diversity and engagement.A planning activity will be undertaken to analyze how different actors in a regional circular economy affect the stocks, flows, depletion and regeneration of various types of capital, and how explicit identification of these flows might shape potential innovations. New thinking, technologies, and business models will be explored to tackle the circular economy challenge from the front end of the supply chain by re-designing products and developing resource sharing models and from the back end by closing material loops. The creation of circular economy business opportunities, especially in marginalized urban and rural communities, will be addressed through convergent approaches encompassing multi-capital flows, data science, and public policies with participatory co-design methods. This approach elevates the knowledge and experiences of diverse participants to that of subject matter experts so that any innovations developed will result in resource conservation and will meet community needs. The team's community partners are leaders in developing and implementing new models that seek to broaden the influence of circular economy-based solutions. Throughout the efforts of this planning activity, the importance of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion to the project's framing of circular economy will be emphasized.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.

围绕创建和实施循环经济解决方案的目标组织的研究网络可以解决区域系统面临的日益增长的社会，经济和环境影响。研究网络规划将利用基于芝加哥市及其周围城乡联系的案例研究，探讨导致不可持续的资源消耗和废物产生的基本系统结构和相互作用。 该规划还将确定基于新兴循环经济领域的潜在解决方案。规划团队将邀请跨学科研究人员和非学术合作伙伴共同创建一个研究议程，将区域系统转变为循环经济。 该小组还将探索趋同的研究机制，从不同的角度深度整合知识，方法，工具和专业知识，以促进区域循环经济的研究。最后，该团队将设计一个合作平台，科学界和主要利益相关者可以在此平台上分享知识，转化研究成果，提高多样性和一致性。将开展规划活动，分析区域循环经济中的不同参与者如何影响各种类型资本的存量，流量，消耗和再生，以及明确识别这些流量如何塑造潜在的创新。我们将探索新的思维、技术和商业模式，通过重新设计产品和开发资源共享模式，从供应链的前端和通过关闭材料循环的后端应对循环经济挑战。创造循环经济商业机会，特别是在边缘化的城市和农村社区，将通过融合的方法来解决，包括多方资本流动，数据科学和公共政策以及参与式共同设计方法。这种方法将不同参与者的知识和经验提升为专题专家的知识和经验，以便开发的任何创新都将导致资源保护并满足社区需求。该团队的社区合作伙伴是开发和实施新模式的领导者，旨在扩大基于循环经济的解决方案的影响力。在整个规划活动中，将强调公正、公平、多样性和包容性对项目循环经济框架的重要性。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。