Global Center Track 2: Climate Risk and Resilience: Southeast Asia as a Living Lab (SEALL)

全球中心第二轨道设计奖开展的活动旨在评估风险、评估影响、设计适应和缓解战略，并为生活在东南亚沿海低地地区的社区建立复原力。东南亚（SEA）是全球供应链中重要的制造业中心，在脆弱的沿海地区和三角洲人口稠密的城市地区，拥有大量文化和种族多样化的人口。来自美国六所大学的专家小组与越南、泰国和新加坡大学的研究人员合作，计划设计一个以东南亚为中心的全球生活实验室（SEALL），为易受气候变化影响的社区制定缓解和适应战略。该项目旨在通过从基础研究到技术进步、教育、推广和劳动力发展等一系列战略，以及采用以使用为灵感和跨学科的方法，建立应对气候变化的能力。SEALL中心将为低洼地区制定以社区为中心、以科学为基础的适应和减缓政策。SEALL将通过综合方法改变工程师、计算机科学家、生物学家和社会科学家的专业教育，以更好地为此类灾害做好准备，从而减轻人力和财务成本，并破坏全球供应链。在东南亚建立应对气候变化能力的经验教训对其他拥有广阔海岸线、大河、低洼土地和热带气候的地区，如印度、孟加拉国和美国东南部，将具有重要价值。该项目有三个研究和教育主题：主题1，碳中和的可持续城市发展；主题2，低影响和抗灾农业；主题3，气候变化对健康的影响和适应。该规划赠款将完成以下活动：1)在河内举办研讨会，汇集来自美国和东南亚的研究人员、政策制定者、行业专家、学生和社区，就气候风险和建设抵御力分享知识并进一步开展合作；2)为期18个月的三个探索性项目，以进一步发展在研讨会上建立的伙伴关系；3)一个中心规模合作的设计方案，允许参与者将SEA生活实验室的经验教训应用到其他沿海地区，这是气候变化最脆弱的地区之一。这一设计阶段的结果是为沿海社区在气候变化中的未来研究、教育和实施缓解和适应战略建立能力。一个以SEA为活实验室的全球气候变化和清洁能源中心，将对建立气候变化减缓、适应和复原力方面的知识、教育和实施能力产生潜在的深远影响。本项目将招募来自不同背景、国际旅行和教育资源有限的美国学生。该奖项由全球中心项目资助，该项目是一个创新项目，支持以使用为灵感的研究，解决与气候变化和/或清洁能源相关的全球挑战。Track 2设计奖支持美国的研究人员将国际团队聚集在一起，开发研究问题和合作伙伴关系，进行景观分析，综合数据，和/或建立多方利益相关者网络，以推进他们未来更大规模的使用灵感研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This Global Centers Track 2 Design award undertakes activities aiming to assess the risk, evaluate impacts, design adaptation and mitigation strategies, and build resilience for communities living in coastal low-land regions in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia (SEA) is a critical manufacturing hub in the global supply chain supporting a large and culturally and ethnically diverse population in densely populated urban areas in vulnerable coastal regions and deltas. A team of experts from six U.S. universities working in collaboration with researchers from universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore plans to design a global center with Southeast Asia as a Living Lab (SEALL) to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies for vulnerable communities in the changing climate. The project seeks to build resilience to a changing climate using strategies that range from basic research to technological advancement, education, outreach, and workforce development and adopting approaches that are use-inspired and interdisciplinary. The SEALL center will develop community-centered and science-based adaptation and mitigation policies for low-lying regions. SEALL will transform the specialized education of engineers, computer scientists, biologists, and social scientists through an integrated approach to better prepare for such disasters, thus mitigating the human and financial costs and disrupting the global supply chain. Lessons learned from building resilience to climate change in SEA will be valuable for other regions with extensive coastlines, large rivers, low-lying land, and tropical weather, such as India, Bangladesh, and the American Southeast. This project has three research and education themes: Theme 1, carbon-neutral sustainable urban development; Theme 2, low-impact and resilient agriculture; and Theme 3, health impacts of climate change and adaptation. This planning grant will complete the following activities: 1) a workshop in Hanoi that brings together researchers, policymakers, industry experts, students, and communities from the US and SEA to share knowledge and develop further collaboration on climate risks and building resilience; 2) three exploratory projects over 18 months to further develop the partnerships built at the workshop; 3) a design plan for a center-scale collaboration that would allow participants to apply the lessons learned from the SEA living lab, one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, to other coastal regions. The outcome of this design stage is to build capacity for future research, education, and implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies for coastal communities in the changing climate. A global center on climate change and clean energy with SEA as a living lab would have potentially profound impacts on building intellectual, educational, and implementation capacities on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. U.S. students from diverse backgrounds and with limited international travel and education resources will be recruited for this project. This award is funded by the Global Centers program, an innovative program that supports use-inspired research addressing global challenges related to climate change and/or clean energy. Track 2 design awards support U.S.-based researchers to bring together international teams to develop research questions and partnerships, conduct landscape analyses, synthesize data, and/or build multi-stakeholder networks to advance their use-inspired research at larger scale in the future.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.