Coastal Sustainability: Clean, Safe, Smart, and Equitable Communities

沿海可持续发展：清洁、安全、智能和公平的社区

• 批准号: 2123085
• 负责人: Geoffrey Trussell
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 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: 2021-05-01 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2123085&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Coastal; Sustainability; Clean; Safe; Smart

This project will organize and host a virtual workshop to identify the parameters for a potential future convergence accelerator track on nature-based solutions to support coastal sustainability. Human communities and economies are concentrated along the world’s coastlines. Yet ongoing changes in climate continue to drive complex interactions between geophysical and social-ecological systems that amplify environmental threats facing coastal communities and their economies. Sustaining human coastal communities has become an urgent societal priority. The Coastal Sustainability workshop will leverage nature-based solutions and develop a framework that identifies the interactions and "friction points" to determine what suite of nature-based solutions are best suited for a given coastal community and what the barriers are to their implementation. The workshop organizers intend to support an inclusive process that considers the existing inequities in the hidden coast – non-oceanfront regions where rural, minority, and/or impoverished communities reside. The goal is to shape the co-development of convergent research that is stakeholder-driven, inclusive, and focused on implementation of sustainability solutions that promote clean, safe, smart, and equitable coastal communities. The framework that the workshop seeks to create will be shaped by substantial stakeholder engagement during collaborative discussion and analysis of factors (including Ecological and Geophysical, Cognitive and Social, Technological, and Economic). The goal is to identify and create opportunities within a landscape of uncertainty: in management practice, in scientific and societal understanding, and in cognition of threats and opportunities. The workshop will collaboratively identify the basis of uncertainties around development and implementation of nature-based coastal sustainability solutions as well as mechanisms for overcoming them. This process will facilitate the identification, assessment, and optimization of viable and implementable sustainability solutions across a variety of coastal communities. The synthesis report that will result from the workshop will provide a blueprint that outlines the specific inflection points where investment in convergent research will be most effective in accelerating sustainable outcomes for communities.Nature-based solutions are most likely to be effective when communities co-create them in collaboration with expert practitioners, ensuring that the solutions are tailored to meet specific community needs. This workshop plans to actively engage with diverse community organizations, government officials, and broad range of technical experts across many disciplines to ensure that the resulting framework is inclusive of all necessary voices. Diverse groups have been shown to outperform homogeneous groups in problem solving and assembling diverse stakeholders is expected to improve the creativity of the solutions explored and create new avenues for scientific collaboration. By bringing together individuals and organizations from around the country that do not typically interact directly, this workshop seeks to facilitate relationship-building and partnerships that has the potential to extend beyond the Convergence Accelerator topic ideation process, helping to also advance the science and practice of coastal sustainability.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.

该项目将组织和主办一个虚拟研讨会，以确定今后可能的基于自然的解决方案趋同加速轨道的参数，以支持沿海可持续性。人类社区和经济都集中在沿着世界海岸线。然而，持续的气候变化继续推动地球物理和社会生态系统之间的复杂相互作用，加剧了沿海社区及其经济面临的环境威胁。维持人类沿海社区已成为一个紧迫的社会优先事项。沿海可持续性研讨会将利用基于自然的解决方案，并制定一个框架，确定相互作用和“摩擦点”，以确定哪一套基于自然的解决方案最适合特定的沿海社区，以及实施这些解决方案的障碍是什么。讲习班组织者打算支持一个包容性的进程，考虑到农村、少数民族和/或贫困社区居住的隐蔽沿海-非海滨地区-现有的不平等。其目标是共同开发融合研究，该研究由利益相关者驱动，具有包容性，并专注于实施可持续发展解决方案，促进清洁，安全，智能和公平的沿海社区。研讨会寻求创建的框架将在合作讨论和因素分析（包括生态和地球物理，认知和社会，技术和经济）期间由大量利益相关者参与形成。目标是在不确定的环境中识别和创造机会：在管理实践中，在科学和社会理解中，以及在对威胁和机会的认知中。研讨会将合作确定围绕基于自然的沿海可持续性解决方案的开发和实施的不确定性的基础以及克服这些不确定性的机制。这一进程将有助于确定、评估和优化各种沿海社区可行和可实施的可持续性解决方案。研讨会的综合报告将提供一份蓝图，概述在哪些具体的转折点上，对融合研究的投资将最有效地加速社区的可持续成果，当社区与专家从业者合作共同创造基于自然的解决方案时，这些解决方案最有可能有效，确保解决方案适合社区的具体需求。该研讨会计划积极与不同的社区组织，政府官员和许多学科的广泛技术专家合作，以确保最终框架包含所有必要的声音。多样化的群体已被证明在解决问题方面优于同质群体，聚集不同的利益相关者有望提高所探索的解决方案的创造性，并为科学合作创造新的途径。通过汇集来自全国各地的个人和组织，通常不直接互动，这个研讨会旨在促进关系的建立和伙伴关系，有可能超越融合加速器主题构思过程，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。