Planning: Building Community Resilience in the Food-Energy-Water and Society Nexus

该规划奖支持阿拉斯加农村地区解决食品、能源和水（FEW）安全问题的社区伙伴关系的发展。PI团队将与社区成员进行虚拟和面对面的会面，以建立信任，并讨论偏远农村环境中少数族裔安全面临的当地挑战。通过一系列研讨会、会议和磋商，项目小组和社区成员将探讨基础设施、村庄建筑环境以及影响安全和复原力的社会因素等问题。这个参与性项目为以社区为基础的粮食、能源和水安全研究奠定了基础。在规划方面的支持下，研究小组将成立顾问委员会，并开展一系列参与活动，与社区建立关系，帮助研究人员更好地了解居民的需要和关注。将举办一系列正式和非正式的会议和工作坊，为居民提供多种参与机会。两场研讨会将重点关注6至9岁儿童对食物、能源和水的看法。根据这些活动和咨询委员会的信息，PI团队将开发一个基于地点的挑战-解决方案矩阵，并通过社区投入对其进行完善。最终的矩阵将作为海报分发给社区成员。该矩阵将成为以社区为中心的研究建议的基础，以解决规划过程中确定的最突出的几个问题。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 planning award supports development of a community partnership addressing food, energy, and water (FEW) security concerns in rural Alaska. The PI team will meet with community members both virtually and in person to build trust and discuss the local challenges to FEW security in a remote rural context. Through a series of workshops, meetings, and consultations, the PI team and community members will explore issues such as infrastructure, the built environment of the village, and social factors that affect security and resilience. This participatory project lays the foundation for a community-based study of food, energy and water security. With planning support, the PI team will form an advisory board and conduct a series of engagement activities to build a relationship with the community and help the researchers better understand residents’ needs and concerns. A series of formal and informal meetings and workshops will be held, providing residents with multiple opportunities to participate. Two workshops will focus on perceptions of food, energy and water among children ages six through nine. Informed by these activities and the advisory board, the PI team will develop a place-based challenge-solution matrix, which will be refined through community input. The final matrix will be distributed to community members as a poster. This matrix will be the basis for a community-centered research proposal addressing the most salient FEW questions identified during the planning process.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.