Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Residual Risk of Extreme Floods: a challenge for achieving sustainable development goals

该奖项为参与由55个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛发起的全球变化研究项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个研究资助组织的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法来应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作提供支持。这些小组将建立跨学科网络，为可持续发展途径制定创新的解决办法，并设法评估经济、技术、机构与环境、气候、生物多样性和人类福祉之间的积极和消极相互联系，以了解通往可持续世界的潜在途径。该项目将建立一个国际专家网络和一个实践社区，以解决洪水破坏的剩余风险，帮助为可持续发展提供信息。在过去的几十年里，人类对洪水的暴露程度有所增加，但许多人没有意识到他们居住在洪水风险区。极端洪水剩余风险（rrefflood）项目旨在通过创建一个关注剩余风险及其管理之间相互作用的网络，帮助管理这一风险，并增加与公众的沟通。项目成员将共同设计一个框架，将剩余风险纳入地方规划工作，创建一个平台，促进基础知识和工具的进步，以减少剩余洪水风险，并确定有利于世界各国的研究需求。该项目将促进提高与气候变化有关的有效规划和管理能力的机制，并将确定向居民和利益相关者传达剩余洪水风险的有效途径，以减少自然灾害的不利影响。国际科学界将通过增加一个新的关于剩余洪水风险的专家网络而得到加强；该网络将促进交流互鉴，改进全球实践方法。因此，rrefflood项目将围绕全球洪水风险创建一个新的社区，并通过全球研究和社区支持参与可持续发展的途径。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。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will establish transdisciplinary networks to develop innovative solutions for sustainable development pathways and seek to assess the positive and negative inter-linkages between the economy, technology, institutions with the environment, climate, biodiversity, and human well-being to understand potential pathways to a sustainable world.The project will create an international network of experts and a community of practice to address the residual risk of flooding damage to help inform sustainable development. The exposure of human populations to flooding has increased in the last several decades, but many people are unaware that they reside in flooding risk zones. Residual risk of extreme floods (RREflood) project aims to help manage this risk and increase communication with the public by creating a network focused on the interplay among residual risk and its management. The project members will collaboratively design a framework to integrate residual risk in local planning efforts, create a platform to facilitate advances in basic knowledge and tools to reduce residual flood risk, and identify research needs that will be beneficial to countries worldwide. This project will promote mechanisms to raise capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management and will identify effective ways to communicate the residual flood risk to residents and stakeholders, with the goal to reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters. The international scientific community will be enhanced by the addition of a novel network of experts on residual flood risk; this network will facilitate exchanges and mutual learning to improve methods in global practice. The RREFlood project will thus create a new community around global flood risk and engage in pathways to sustainability through global research and community support.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.