Planning Grant: Building a Community Learning Ecosystem For Climate Change Resilience in Northern Colorado

规划拨款：在科罗拉多州北部建立一个社区学习生态系统，以增强气候变化的抵御能力

• 批准号: 2228170
• 负责人: Lucinda Shellito
• 金额: $ 29.6万
• 依托单位: University of Northern Colorado
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228170&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Building; Community; Learning

The planning grant builds capacity for an intentional Climate Resilience Learning Ecosystem in northern Colorado that helps students and faculty at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) connect with local community members and institutions. Through these connections, those involved will build deeper understanding of climate change and its regional impacts in order to address imminent local challenges presented by climate change. Climate change solutions and adaptations require local buy-in to address issues within the community, and future generations (i.e., undergraduate students) will need an understanding of how climate disrupting events (e.g., drought, wildfire, flood, heatwaves) impact diverse people, disciplines, and systems. Continuing to sustain human civilization critically depends on individuals from all backgrounds understanding what is happening in our natural and social environments and empowering them to make decisions that will ensure a sustainable future. However, there is presently a lack of structure for effective collaboration across academia, social institutions, and communities, inhibiting targeted action on projects that promote long-term sustainability. The proposed Climate Resilience Learning Ecosystem is a community-based approach that identifies problems and solutions within local spheres of influence to build climate change resilience.The goal of this learning ecosystem is to strengthen society-wide climate change education, resilience and adaptation through community projects and stakeholder engagement by answering the question: what does climate resilience look like for our community? To this end, the work has three primary objectives: (1) identify how to prepare students to work with community stakeholders on local projects that build community resilience to climate change impacts and ability to adapt; (2) build expertise about climate change resilience among faculty from a broad array of disciplines; (3) develop resources for community members to empower them to make decisions and take action around climate change challenges. The resources, activities, and outcomes developed through this process will contribute to activities and the body of knowledge concerning the efficacy and framework for building a learning ecosystem, and how a learning ecosystem can contribute to climate resilience.This work involves three phases. In Phase 1, the PIs work with a community facilitator to map the local community landscape for building inclusive connections across disciplines and communities. Phase 2 involves local situational analysis with community groups to identify climate-related issues that the PIs have the capacity to address. Phases 1 and 2 lay the groundwork for a summer institute (Phase 3) that brings together UNC faculty, students, and local community groups to learn from each other, identify strategies for addressing local climate challenges, and evaluate the need for an implementation grant. This project engages students, faculty, and community members from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and levels of professional development with the goal of developing and documenting a learning ecosystem to support collaborative climate resilience projects and solutions. These activities form the foundation of future climate sustainability and interaction of currently disparate sectors and groups in northern Colorado. The fledgling learning ecosystem community supported by this project will ultimately have a clear vision of how they want to move forward into the future. Most importantly, participants will understand how climate change will impact them individually and collectively in the northern Colorado community and how the community can work together to build resilience.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.

该规划拨款为科罗拉多州北方的故意气候适应能力学习生态系统建立能力，帮助北方科罗拉多大学的学生和教师与当地社区成员和机构建立联系。通过这些联系，参与者将更深入地了解气候变化及其区域影响，以应对气候变化给当地带来的紧迫挑战。气候变化的解决方案和适应措施需要当地的支持，以解决社区和子孙后代（即，本科生）将需要了解气候破坏事件（例如，干旱，野火，洪水，热浪）影响不同的人，学科和系统。继续维持人类文明在很大程度上取决于来自各种背景的个人了解我们的自然和社会环境中正在发生的事情，并使他们能够做出确保可持续未来的决定。然而，目前学术界、社会机构和社区之间缺乏有效合作的结构，阻碍了促进长期可持续性的项目的有针对性的行动。拟议的气候适应学习生态系统是一个以社区为基础的方法，旨在确定当地影响范围内的问题和解决方案，以建立气候变化适应能力。该学习生态系统的目标是通过社区项目和利益相关者的参与，通过回答以下问题，加强全社会的气候变化教育，适应能力和适应能力：我们社区的气候适应能力是什么样的？为此，这项工作有三个主要目标：（1）确定如何让学生做好准备，与社区利益攸关方合作开展地方项目，建立社区对气候变化影响的复原力和适应能力;（2）在来自广泛学科的教师中建立关于气候变化复原力的专业知识;（3）为社区成员开发资源，使他们能够围绕气候变化挑战做出决定并采取行动。通过这一进程开发的资源、开展的活动和取得的成果将有助于开展活动和积累知识，了解建立学习生态系统的有效性和框架，以及学习生态系统如何有助于气候抗御能力。在第一阶段，PI与社区促进者合作，绘制当地社区景观，以建立跨学科和社区的包容性联系。第二阶段涉及与社区团体一起进行当地情况分析，以确定参与者有能力解决的气候相关问题。第一阶段和第二阶段为暑期学院（第三阶段）奠定了基础，该学院将教师，学生和当地社区团体聚集在一起，相互学习，确定应对当地气候挑战的战略，并评估实施补助金的必要性。该项目吸引了来自各种背景，年龄和专业发展水平的学生，教师和社区成员，其目标是开发和记录学习生态系统，以支持协作气候适应力项目和解决方案。这些活动构成了未来气候可持续性和北方科罗拉多目前不同部门和群体相互作用的基础。由该项目支持的新兴学习生态系统社区最终将对未来的发展有一个清晰的愿景。最重要的是，参与者将了解气候变化将如何影响他们个人和集体在北方科罗拉多社区和社区如何能够共同努力，以建立弹性。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。