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

CAS-气候：海湾地区复原力研究与实践研讨会

• 批准号: 2202061
• 负责人: Fernanda Leite
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2202061&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAS; Climate; Workshop; Resilience; Research

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.

这笔赠款用于支持为期三天的研讨会，将学者和利益相关者聚集在一起，以建立一个专注于海湾地区气候适应能力研究和实践的实践社区。气候变化正影响着从佛罗里达到德克萨斯海岸的海湾地区数百万人的生活和生计。在这片广袤的土地上，休斯顿（美国第四大城市，也是最多样化的城市之一）等城市中心和沿海小镇都坐落在地球上最具生物多样性和生产力的生态系统之一中。海湾地区也有不成比例的人被认为在社会上易受灾害影响。气候变化、人口动态变化、基础设施能力和条件老化以及快速的工业和技术变革加剧了这些慢性压力源。随着气候影响的增加，墨西哥湾沿岸地区将成为变化的领头羊，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，进行共同设计和研究翻译，以便优先考虑社区利益相关者的需求；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界和研究与实践交叉领域的需求。有许多STEM和人文学科的研究人员专注于墨西哥湾沿岸地区气候适应能力的相关问题。然而，它们并没有与特定区域的跨学科或从研究到行动的网络联系起来。这意味着研究人员对其他研究人员可能正在做的与他们自己相关的工作缺乏认识，并且研究重点之间缺乏协调，从而利益相关者可能能够更有效地互动并使用弹性研究的知识输出。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上具有独特的多样性，韧性研究必须解决这些挑战，以及在理解该地区人类和自然系统相互作用方面存在的其他主要差距。讲习班会议的目标是产生有意义的交流，并允许对一系列相关学科的领导人提出的想法进行集中讨论，从而在环境和城市系统的界面上形成弹性研究倡议的汇合说明书。本次研讨会将通过以下方式建立跨学科研究关系：1)为早期职业教师、城市/州一级和政策专业人员提供专业发展，介绍社会环境模型；2)通过跨学科培训，满足对工人日益增长的需求，引导快速气候变化与生态系统和工程服务中产生的压力之间的复杂相互作用；3)发展学者、政府代表和社区组织网络，专注于建立整个海湾地区的复原力。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。