Collaborative Research: RII Track-2 FEC: Rural Confluence: Communities and Academic Partners Uniting to Drive Discovery and Build Capacity for Climate Resilience

合作研究：RII Track-2 FEC：农村融合：社区和学术合作伙伴联合起来推动发现并建设气候适应能力的能力

• 批准号: 2316367
• 负责人: Nina Lam
• 金额: $ 112.13万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; RII; Track; FEC

Climate change threatens rural communities across the US due to their strong dependence on natural resources and higher poverty rates and lower resilience capacity than urban areas. Thus climate change may disproportionally impact rural communities, but the majority of climate resilience research to date focuses on urban areas. Furthermore, rural residents are underrepresented across all areas of science, which may contribute to skepticism about climate change science and hinder collective action. Therefore, there is a pressing need to advance the science of rural climate resilience and to reduce climate change vulnerabilities in rural communities. This project seeks to meet that important need through the confluence of knowledge, skills, and perspectives from diverse but connected communities, disciplines, and institutions within the Mississippi River basin. The project is significant because it will engage rural communities to create shared frameworks for rural climate resilience, project rural climate change impacts and community resilience scenarios, expand social and economic opportunities for rural communities, and broaden STEM workforce opportunities for people from rural and underrepresented backgrounds. Through the collaborations between faculty and students at Oklahoma State University (OSU), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and Louisiana State University (LSU), along with Hispanic and Native American minority-serving institutions, Western Oklahoma State College and Northern Oklahoma College, this project will substantially advance rural climate resilience research and generate lasting improvements in rural STEM opportunities. These collaborations will lay the foundation for long-term partnerships between the Rural Renewal Initiative (OSU), Rural Prosperity Nebraska (UNL), and the Gulf Scholars Program (LSU). The project aims to touch the lives of thousands of people and translate to economic impacts in rural communities by identifying potential solutions to expected climate change-driven losses. Focusing climate resilience research on rural communities creates the potential to bridge the divide between rural and scientific communities, while creating frameworks and civic engagement strategies that may be applied in other rural communities around the world. This project is centered around epistemological inclusivity, which allows rural perspectives to help guide the investigations. Researchers work with community members to co-create socially robust knowledge, which can enhance trust in science, provide new insights, and build social capital for climate resilience. The specific aims of this project are to: 1) Co-develop with communities a shared conceptual framework for rural climate resilience research and action informed by rural perceptions and priorities; 2) Project rural climate change impacts and community resilience scenarios using improved simulation methods accounting for slow-burn processes such as population decline; 3) Expand social and economic opportunities for disproportionately affected rural communities by helping them identify and pursue locally-relevant climate resilience strategies; and 4) Broaden STEM workforce participation for people from rural and underrepresented backgrounds by developing diverse career pathways from K16 to early-career faculty. The project will create diversified rural STEM pathways using a braided river approach. Rural and underrepresented students, including Hispanic students and Tribal Nation citizens, will benefit from new micro-credentials, STEM curriculum, and undergraduate research opportunities. The project will also support the development of Early-Career Faculty from rural and underrepresented backgrounds. Impacts of this project will be sustained through investments in STEM students and Early-Career Faculty; by creation of open-access publications, curriculum, and models; and by development of community resilience action plans. Approaches will be tested, evaluated, and refined through 2-year cycles of engagement with six focus communities, leading to the creation of a replicable model. Simulations will incorporate state-of-the-art climate projections into a suite of interconnected open-source models to estimate hazard exposure, damages, and long-term community recovery or decline with and without locally-prioritized adaptation measures. Simulation results will be shared with the communities, contributing to the development of local resilience action plans. This project is expected to expand and accelerate community resilience modeling, being among the first to develop simulation methods accounting for the paired, simultaneous slow-burn disturbances of climate change and rural depopulation.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.

气候变化威胁着美国各地的农村社区，因为它们对自然资源的严重依赖、贫困率高于城市地区、复原能力低于城市地区。因此，气候变化可能会对农村社区产生不利影响，但迄今为止，大多数气候适应性研究都集中在城市地区。此外，农村居民在所有科学领域的代表性不足，这可能会导致对气候变化科学的怀疑，并阻碍集体行动。因此，迫切需要推进农村气候抗御力科学，降低农村社区的气候变化脆弱性。该项目旨在满足这一重要需求，通过知识，技能和观点的汇合，从不同的，但连接的社区，学科和机构内的密西西比河流域。该项目意义重大，因为它将使农村社区参与创建农村气候适应能力的共享框架，预测农村气候变化影响和社区适应能力情景，扩大农村社区的社会和经济机会，并为来自农村和代表性不足的背景的人扩大STEM劳动力机会。通过俄克拉荷马州州立大学（OSU），内布拉斯加州林肯大学（UNL）和路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）的教师和学生之间的合作，沿着西班牙裔和美洲原住民少数民族服务机构，西俄克拉荷马州州立学院和北方俄克拉荷马州学院，该项目将大大推进农村气候弹性研究，并在农村STEM机会产生持久的改善。这些合作将为农村复兴计划（OSU），内布拉斯加州农村繁荣（UNL）和海湾学者计划（LSU）之间的长期合作奠定基础。该项目旨在通过确定应对气候变化导致的预期损失的潜在解决方案，触及成千上万人的生活，并转化为对农村社区的经济影响。将气候复原力研究的重点放在农村社区，可以弥合农村社区和科学界之间的鸿沟，同时建立可适用于世界其他农村社区的框架和公民参与战略。该项目以认识论的包容性为中心，允许农村观点帮助指导调查。研究人员与社区成员合作，共同创造社会强大的知识，这可以增强对科学的信任，提供新的见解，并为气候适应能力建立社会资本。该项目的具体目标是：（1）与社区共同制定一个共享的概念框架，以便在了解农村观念和优先事项的基础上开展农村气候复原力研究和行动;（2）利用改进的模拟方法，预测农村气候变化影响和社区复原力情景，说明人口下降等缓慢燃烧过程; 3）通过帮助受影响不成比例的农村社区确定和实施与当地相关的气候适应战略，扩大他们的社会和经济机会;和4）通过开发从K16到早期职业教师的多样化职业途径，为来自农村和代表性不足背景的人提供Brochure STEM劳动力参与。该项目将使用辫状河方法创建多样化的农村STEM路径。农村和代表性不足的学生，包括西班牙裔学生和部落民族公民，将受益于新的微证书，STEM课程和本科研究机会。该项目还将支持来自农村和代表性不足背景的早期职业教师的发展。该项目的影响将通过对STEM学生和早期职业教师的投资来维持;通过创建开放获取的出版物，课程和模型;以及通过制定社区复原力行动计划。将通过与六个重点社区的两年周期接触，对各种方法进行测试、评估和完善，从而创建一个可复制的模式。模拟将把最先进的气候预测纳入一套相互关联的开源模型，以估计灾害暴露、损害和长期社区恢复或衰退，包括和不包括当地优先的适应措施。模拟结果将与社区分享，有助于制定地方抗灾行动计划。该项目有望扩大和加速社区复原力建模，成为第一个开发模拟方法的项目之一，该模拟方法考虑了气候变化和农村人口减少的成对、同时的缓慢燃烧干扰。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标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。