Collaborative Research: GCR: Developing Integrated Agroecological Renewable Energy Systems through Convergent Research

合作研究：GCR：通过融合研究开发综合农业生态可再生能源系统

• 批准号: 2317984
• 负责人: Diana Denham
• 金额: $ 136.41万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317984&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GCR; Developing; Integrated

The deployment of renewable energy systems across landscapes in the U.S. - expected to advance the transition from national reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy - brings with it questions of competing land uses, effects on soil and water systems, and implications for local communities. This project advances the frontiers of science by forging a convergent research paradigm that not only deeply integrates disciplinary modes of thinking from otherwise siloed fields, but also incorporates the values, knowledge, and priorities of Indigenous communities, demonstrating the potential of communities underrepresented in STEM to contribute to convergent research that can address society’s most urgent problems. The project's convergent framework integrates Indigenous knowledge and priorities into a promising but nascent field that explores how wind and solar power can be embedded into agricultural systems. Participating disciplines include engineering, Native American studies, geography, and biology. This convergence research addresses food, energy and other environmental planning priorities through deep engagement with Indigenous communities in North America. Positioned to contribute to the nascent body of research on the integration of solar and wind energy into agricultural and other environmental systems, this project focuses on the co-design of integrated agroecological renewable systems (IARES) to emphasize the multifaceted goals that may be achieved beyond or in synergy with crop and energy production. To this end, the project 1) Demonstrates the potential of convergent research that involves significant community participation in research to shape the technologies guiding a renewable energy transition such to better serve groups underrepresented in scientific research; 2) Highlights the interconnectedness of socio-cultural, technical, and environmental systems; 3) Incorporates Indigenous communities as co-producers of the knowledge necessary to create integrated food-energy-water systems that build resilient soil systems and protect culturally significant ecosystem services, while providing insight into the nascent fields of agrivoltaics/agriwind, and 4) Advances an understanding of how convergent research can blend Indigenous and scientific knowledge, to develop paths towards environmentally and socially sustainable systems. The broader impacts include: 1) Transformative training opportunities for graduate students and PIs in community-based convergent research; 2) Deep engagement with historically marginalized groups that includes Indigenous community researchers in research on the principles of integrated agroecological renewable systems and positions their work to shape this emerging subfield; 3) Creation of communities of practice emerging from convergent research that integrate Indigenous community researchers and biophysical and social scientists; 4) Creation of “living labs,” in which the public, including Indigenous community members and regional leaders, can visit to learn about integrated agroecological renewable systems and convergent research processes in real time.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.

在美国各地部署可再生能源系统-预计将推动国家从依赖化石燃料向可再生能源的过渡-带来了竞争性土地使用，对土壤和水系统的影响以及对当地社区的影响等问题。该项目通过打造一个融合的研究范式来推进科学的前沿，该范式不仅深入整合了来自其他孤立领域的学科思维模式，而且还整合了土著社区的价值观，知识和优先事项，展示了在STEM中代表性不足的社区的潜力，以促进可以解决社会最紧迫问题的融合研究。该项目的融合框架将土著知识和优先事项整合到一个有前途但新兴的领域，探索如何将风能和太阳能嵌入农业系统。参与的学科包括工程学、美洲原住民研究、地理学和生物学。 这项融合研究通过与北美土著社区的深入接触，解决了粮食、能源和其他环境规划优先事项。该项目的定位是促进关于将太阳能和风能纳入农业和其他环境系统的新兴研究，重点是综合农业生态可再生系统（IARES）的共同设计，以强调可能超越作物和能源生产或与作物和能源生产协同实现的多方面目标。为此，该项目（1）展示了融合研究的潜力，其中涉及大量社区参与研究，以形成指导可再生能源转型的技术，从而更好地为科学研究中代表性不足的群体服务; 2）突出了社会文化，技术和环境系统的相互联系;（3）确认土著社区是知识的共同生产者，这些知识是建立综合的粮食-能源-水系统所必需的，这些系统将建立有复原力的土壤系统，并保护具有文化意义的生态系统服务，同时提供对农业生态学/农业风能的新兴领域的洞察力，以及4）推进对融合研究如何融合土著知识和科学知识的理解，以开发通往环境和社会可持续系统的道路。更广泛的影响包括：1）为研究生和PI提供基于社区的融合研究的转型培训机会; 2）与历史上被边缘化的群体深入接触，包括土著社区研究人员，研究综合农业生态可再生系统的原则，并将他们的工作定位于塑造这一新兴的子领域;（3）通过融合土著社区研究人员和生物物理及社会科学家的综合研究，建立实践社区; 4）建立“生活实验室”，让公众，包括土著社区成员和地区领导人，可以参观，了解综合农业生态可再生系统和收敛的研究过程中真实的时间。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。