CIVIC-PG Track A: From Crisis to Opportunity: Addressing Rapidly Escalating Wildfire Risks on Colorado's Front Range through a Science-based Natural Climate Solutions Approach

保护社区免受灾难性火灾的影响，同时致力于缓解全球变暖和有利于生物多样性的解决方案，是科罗拉多大学博尔德大学可持续景观和社区中心组织的这一项目的主题。由公民领袖、利益相关者和学者组成的团队将评估当地试点项目的潜在影响，这些项目可以将建筑社区和自然社区的灾难性火灾威胁降至最低。这样的行动对生物多样性和土壤肥力等生态特征具有同时的影响和可能的好处，并可能减少温室气体。这一努力的关键是开发可操作的科学活动，这些活动可以立即由公共和私人实体以较低的成本实施。这些行动的重点是“绿色解决方案”的地方和地区价值，这是一种基于自然的行动，可以提高社区的复原力，并造福于利益相关者的身心健康。该项目旨在解决灾难性的火灾预防和气候问题解决方案。该项目的成果之一是确定最具影响力的自然气候解决方案的优先顺序，以支持缓解野火。这些措施包括综合公共和私人土地管理的最佳做法，以在当地或地理上相似的环境中不同土地管理/土地使用情景下观察到的火灾行为为基础，恢复野火。该项目正在制定一个框架，对优先的自然气候解决方案进行全面的成本/效益分析，包括碳/气候稳定效益和相关的气候复原力效益(气温降低、雨水渗入增加、能源消耗减少)。将结合和分析伙伴研究项目、自然土地生态调查和城市社区科学调查的数据集，评估土地管理做法对土壤健康以及昆虫和鸟类多样性和丰富性的影响。在所有情况下，评价都将包括认识到利益攸关方对执行工作的限制。值得注意的是，将重点评估行动对其他行动的影响。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划的回应-轨道A。生活在不断变化的气候中：围绕适应、弹性和缓解的灾前行动-是NSF、国土安全部和能源部的合作。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。

Protecting communities from catastrophic fire while concurrently working on solutions that can mitigate global warming and benefit biological diversity is the topic of this project organized by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities. The team that includes civic leaders, stakeholders, and academics will assess the potential impact of local pilot projects that can minimize the threat of catastrophic fire in both built and natural communities. Such actions have concurrent impacts and possible benefits to ecological characteristics such as biological diversity and soil fertility, and could reduce greenhouse gases. The crux of this effort is to develop actionable science activities that can be implemented immediately at little cost by both public and private entities. These actions focus on the local and regional value of ‘green solutions,’ nature-based actions that can increase community resilience and benefit the physical and mental wellbeing of stakeholders.This project addresses catastrophic fire prevention and climate solutions. Among the deliverables of this project are the prioritization of the highest impact natural climate solutions to be developed to support wildfire mitigation. These include a synthesis of public and private land management best practices for wildfire resilience based on observed behaviors of fire under different land management/land use scenarios within local or geographically analogous settings. The project is developing a framework for conducting a full cost/benefit analysis of priority natural climate solutions, including both the carbon/climate stabilization benefits and the related climate resilience benefits (reduced temperatures, increased storm water infiltration, reduced energy consumption). An assessment of the impacts from land management practices to soil health, and insect and bird diversity and abundance will be conducted by combining and analyzing data sets from partner research projects, ecology surveys on natural land, and urban community science surveys. In all cases, recognizing stakeholder limitations to implementation will be included in evaluations. Of considerable interest, assessment of actions in terms of effects on other actions will be highlighted.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track A. Living in a changing climate: pre-disaster action around adaptation, resilience, and mitigation—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.