NNA Collaboratory: Collaborative Research: Arctic Cities: Measuring Urban Sustainability in Transition (MUST)

导航新北极（NNA）是美国国家科学基金会的十大构想之一。NNA项目解决快速变化的北极地区的融合科学挑战。这项北极研究需要为国家、更大地区和全球的经济、安全和复原力提供信息。NNA支持从地方到国际规模的新研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正式和非正式教育的努力，并在适当情况下整合知识的共同生产。该奖项通过解决以下NNA重点领域的社会系统、自然环境和建筑环境之间的相互作用，实现了这一目标的一部分：北极居民、数据和观测、教育、全球影响和弹性基础设施。北极城市面临着社会和经济转型、基础设施恶化、环境变化以及治理系统压力等多重挑战。为了有效应对，市长、市议会、机构领导人、当地公民和居民以及其他利益相关者需要一套明确的指标，以帮助他们了解北极条件的变化，并为制定基础设施和治理战略提供指导，以实现未来的繁荣和促进可持续性。这个NNA合作实验室项目评估了城市可持续性的许多问题，并编制了一套关于北极条件的指标，这些指标提供了关于几个问题变化的数据，包括自然环境、能源和社会文化问题。有了这些指标，政策制定者和利益相关者可以制定有效的治理体系，设计和建设基础设施，以应对北极城市地区不断变化的自然环境和经济的挑战。这个NNA合作实验室扩展了许多城市关于北极自然条件的各种主题指标数据库。该合作实验室通过开发包括历史数据在内的北极条件新指标，培养自然、社会和城市规划科学方面的理论和检验假设，从而能够检查城市可持续性各个组成部分之间的动态趋势和关系。通过组织北极研究界之间的合作，促进北极城市及其周边地区现在和未来发生的自然、社会和建筑环境转型的融合研究，该合作实验室推进了围绕北极城市可持续性的长期研究议程和平台。指标引入了一个带有明确度量和假设的共享词汇表，使学者和其他跨学科人员能够相互作用，同时为理论构建和检验提供基础。合作实验室还与土著和其他社区合作，对不同的北极城市地区进行案例研究，以检查城市一级的数据，了解各种可持续性要素之间的相互联系。因此，该NNA合作实验室通过提供工具来衡量进展，确定最迫切需要的领域，选择可验证的最佳实践，检查机会成本，并确定外部参与者可以产生最大影响的地方，从而提高政策制定者和利益相关者促进可持续性的能力。该项目由NNA计划和国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）支持。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF’s 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. This Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by addressing interactions among social systems, natural environment, and built environment in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents, Data and Observation, Education, Global Impact, and Resilient Infrastructure. Arctic cities face multiple challenges from social and economic transformations, deteriorating infrastructure, a changing environment, and pressures on their governance systems. To respond effectively, mayors, city councils, agency leaders, local citizens and residents, and other stakeholders need a clear set of indicators to help them understand changes in Arctic conditions and provide guidance in devising infrastructure and governance strategies to achieve future prosperity and spur sustainability. This NNA Collaboratory project assesses numerous issues of urban sustainability and compiles a set of metrics on Arctic conditions that provides data about changes in several issues, including the natural environment, energy, and socio-cultural issues. With these indicators, policymakers and stakeholders can develop effective governance systems and design and build infrastructure to meet the challenges of a shifting natural environment and economy in Arctic urban areas. This NNA Collaboratory expands upon a database of indicators on various topics in numerous cities on natural conditions in the Arctic. The Collaboratory cultivates theories and test hypotheses in the natural, social, and urban planning sciences by developing new indicators for Arctic conditions that include historical data, enabling examination of dynamic trends and relationships among the various components of urban sustainability. The Collaboratory advances a long-term research agenda and platform around Arctic urban sustainability by organizing collaborations among the Arctic research community and facilitating convergence research on the natural, social, and built environment transitions taking place in and around Arctic cities now and in the future. Indicators introduce a shared vocabulary with explicit measures and assumptions that allow scholars and others across disciplines to interact while providing a foundation for theory building and testing. Working with Indigenous and other communities, the Collaboratory also engages in case studies of divergent Arctic urban areas to examine city-level data for interlinkages among assorted elements of sustainability. Consequently, this NNA Collaboratory improves the ability of policymakers and stakeholders to promote sustainability by providing tools to measure progress, identify areas of most urgent need, select verifiable best practices, examine opportunity costs, and determine where external actors can have the greatest impact.This project is supported by the NNA Program and the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE).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.