SAI-P: Optimizing Deployment of Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Maximum Benefit

加强美国基础设施（SAI）是NSF的一项计划，旨在促进以人为本的基础和潜在的变革性研究，以加强美国的基础设施。有效的基础设施为社会经济活力和广泛改善生活质量奠定了坚实的基础。强大、可靠和有效的基础设施刺激私营部门创新，促进经济增长，创造就业机会，提高公共部门服务提供的效率，加强社区建设，促进机会平等，保护自然环境，增强国家安全，并推动美国的领导地位。为了实现这些目标，需要来自科学和工程学科的专业知识。SAI专注于人类推理和决策，治理以及社会和文化过程的知识如何使建设和维护有效的基础设施，改善生活和社会，并建立在技术和工程的进步。雨水径流是城市水污染和洪水的主要来源。为了帮助管理这些问题，许多社区正在转向雨水花园，生物湿地或土壤改良剂等做法，通过模仿自然水文过程来减少和处理雨水径流。这些“绿色基础设施”做法具有成本效益，在流域内的战略位置实施时，可以提供多种社会、经济和健康效益。然而，负责管理雨水的政府机构拥有的公共土地可能不足以实现流域目标。当务之急是制定有效的战略，让居民参与进来，并激励在私人土地上采用绿色基础设施。SAI规划项目的重点是市政当局和政府机构如何优化资源分配，以公平分配和最大限度地提高雨水管理对社会的效益。SAI规划项目汇集了该国主要地区的利益相关者，以确定实施绿色基础设施的挑战。一个主要目标是优先考虑社会，行为，经济，政策和/或水文研究需要制定更有效和公平的绿色基础设施战略。该项目主要侧重于汇集各种利益攸关方，包括地方政府、与房主合作安装绿色基础设施的非政府组织以及基础科学研究人员。这些小组在项目期间参加半天会议。在会议之间，收集有关一个或多个当地感兴趣领域的额外信息，以指导对潜在研究方向的更有针对性的讨论。为了纳入利益攸关方团体的反馈意见和当地以外的观点，在一个较大的区域会议上主办了一次特别会议。该规划活动的高潮是一项全面的研究计划，该计划旨在解决实施有效和公平的绿色基础设施方面最紧迫的挑战。该奖项由社会，行为，经济（SBE）该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research that strengthens America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership. To achieve these goals requires expertise from across the science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how knowledge of human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering.Stormwater runoff is a major source of water pollution and flooding in cities. To help manage these problems, many communities are turning to practices like rain gardens, bioswales, or soil amendments that reduce and treat stormwater runoff by mimicking natural hydrologic processes. These “green infrastructure” practices are cost-effective and can provide multiple social, economic, and health benefits when implemented in strategic locations within a watershed. However, the public land owned by government agencies charged with managing stormwater may not be sufficient to meet watershed targets. Developing effective strategies for engaging residents and incentivizing adoption of green infrastructure on private land is a top priority. This SAI planning project focuses on how municipalities and government agencies can optimally allocate their resources to equitably distribute and maximize the benefits of stormwater management to society.This SAI planning project brings together stakeholders in a major region of the country to define the challenges surrounding green infrastructure implementation. A major goal is to prioritize the social, behavioral, economic, policy, and/or hydrologic research needed to develop more effective and equitable green infrastructure strategies. This project focuses primarily on bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders, including local governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who work with homeowners to install green infrastructure, and basic science researchers. These groups participate in half-day meetings during the project period. Between meetings, additional information is gathered on one or more local areas of interest to guide more focused discussions of potential research directions. To include feedback from stakeholder groups and perspectives beyond the local area, a special session is hosted at a larger regional meeting. The planning activity culminates in a comprehensive research plan that addresses the most pressing challenges in implementing effective and equitable green infrastructure.This award is supported by the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences and the Directorate for Geosciences.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.