CAS-Climate: Workshop on Resilience Research and Practice in the Gulf Region

这笔赠款是为了支持一个为期三天的讲习班，将学者和利益攸关方聚集在一起，目的是建立一个以海湾地区气候复原力研究和实践为重点的实践共同体。气候变化正在影响海湾地区数百万人的生活和生计，从佛罗里达州的尖端到得克萨斯州海岸。在这片广袤的土地上，休斯顿等城市中心和沿海小镇都嵌套在地球上生物多样性和生产力最高的生态系统中。休斯顿是美国第四大城市，也是最具多样性的城市之一。海湾地区也有不成比例的人，他们被认为是社会上容易遭受灾害的人。气候变化、不断演变的人口动态、老化的基础设施能力和状况以及快速的工业和技术变化加剧了这些长期压力。墨西哥湾沿岸地区将成为变化的风向标，随着气候影响的增加，该地区将为整个国家提供成功或失败的适应范例。研讨会为研究人员、政策制定者和社区提供了一个共同努力的机会：1)塑造研究以进行共同设计和研究转换，以便优先考虑社区利益相关者的需求，以及2)将研究成果转化为可操作的知识。研讨会的跨学科互动将有助于确定研究社区以及研究和实践的交叉点的需求。在STEM和人文学科中，有许多研究人员专注于与墨西哥湾沿岸地区气候适应能力有关的问题。然而，它们并不在特定地区的跨学科或研究与行动网络中联系在一起。这意味着研究人员缺乏对其他研究人员可能正在做的与他们自己相关的工作的认识，研究推进之间缺乏协调，使利益相关者能够更有效地互动和使用复原力研究的知识输出。此外，墨西哥湾沿岸地区在城市中心和农村地区之间的界面具有独特的多样性，复原力研究必须解决这些挑战，以及在理解该地区人类与自然系统的相互作用方面存在的其他主要差距。讲习班的目标是促进有意义的交流，并允许对一系列相关学科的领导人提出的想法进行重点讨论，以得出环境和城市系统交界处的复原力研究倡议的趋同说明书。该研讨会将通过以下方式启动跨学科研究关系：1)在介绍性社会环境建模方面的早期职业教师和城市/州一级和政策专业人员的专业发展；2)满足在快速气候变化和由此产生的生态系统和工程服务压力之间的复杂相互作用方面接受跨学科培训的工作人员日益增长的需求；3)发展一个由学者、政府代表和社区组织组成的网络，专注于在整个海湾地区建设复原力。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。

This grant is in support of a three-day workshop to bring together scholars and stakeholders for the purpose of building a community of practice focused on climate resilience research and practice in the Gulf Region. Climate change is affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the Gulf Region, from the tip of Florida to the Texas coast. Across this vast swath, urban centers such as Houston, the fourth largest and one of the most diverse cities of the US, and small coastal towns, are all nested within one of the planet’s most biodiverse and productive ecosystems. The Gulf Region also contains a disproportionate number of people who are considered socially vulnerable to disasters. These chronic stressors are worsened by climate change, evolving population dynamics, aging infrastructure capacity and condition, and rapid industrial and technological change. The Gulf Coast region will be bellwether of change, providing either successful or failed adaptation examples for the entire nation as climate impacts increase. The workshop provides an opportunity for researchers, policymakers, and communities to work together towards: 1) shaping research to undertake co-design and research translation so that needs of community stakeholders are prioritized, and 2) moving research findings into actionable knowledge.Workshop cross-disciplinary interactions will help identify needs in the research community and at the intersection of research and practice. There are many researchers in the STEM and humanities disciplines that are focused on questions relating to climate resilience in the Gulf Coast region. They are not, however, linked in region-specific interdisciplinary or research-to-action networks. This means that there is lack of awareness among researchers about work other researchers might be doing that is relevant to their own, and there is lack of coordination among research thrusts such that stakeholders might be able to more efficiently interact and use the knowledge outputs of resilience research. Moreover, the Gulf Coast region is uniquely diverse in its interfaces between urban centers and rural areas, and resilience research must address these challenges, among other major gaps that exist in the understanding of the interactions of human and natural systems in this region. Workshop sessions target engendering meaningful communication and allowing for focused discussion of ideas presented by leaders in a range of relevant disciplines, to result in a convergent prospectus of resilience research initiatives at the interface of environmental and urban systems. This workshop will initiate transdisciplinary research relationships through: 1) Professional development of early career faculty and city/state level and policy professionals in introductory socio- environmental modeling, 2) Meeting the increasing demand for workers with interdisciplinary training in navigating the complex interplay between rapid climate change and resulting stresses in ecosystem and engineered services, 3) Developing of a network of scholars, government representatives, and community organizations focused on building resilience across the Gulf Region.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.