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

该全球中心第二轨道设计奖旨在评估风险，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）是全球供应链中的重要制造中心，在脆弱的沿海地区和三角洲人口稠密的城市地区支持大量文化和种族多样化的人口。来自六所美国大学的专家团队与来自越南、泰国和新加坡大学的研究人员合作，计划设计一个全球中心，以东南亚为生活实验室（SEALL），为气候变化中的脆弱社区制定缓解和适应战略。该项目旨在利用从基础研究到技术进步、教育、外联和劳动力发展等战略，并采用以使用为灵感的跨学科方法，建立对气候变化的适应能力。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扰乱全球供应链。在东南亚建立应对气候变化能力的经验教训将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）有价值。 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，低影响和有复原力的农业;主题3，气候变化和适应对健康的影响。该规划补助金将完成以下活动：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，分享知识，并在气候风险和建设抵御能力方面开展进一步合作; 2）在18个月内开展三个探索性项目，以进一步发展研讨会上建立的伙伴关系; 3）中心规模合作的设计计划，使参与者能够将从SEA生活实验室（最易受气候变化影响的地区之一）学到的经验教训应用于其他沿海地区。这一设计阶段的成果是为今后的研究、教育和沿海社区在气候变化中的减缓和适应战略的实施进行能力建设。一个以SEA为生命实验室的全球气候变化和清洁能源中心将对建立减缓、适应和恢复气候变化的知识、教育和实施能力产生潜在的深远影响。该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。 该奖项由全球中心计划资助，该计划是一项创新计划，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。途径2设计奖支持美国-该奖项旨在鼓励国际研究团队共同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，以在未来更大规模地推进其使用启发式研究。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。

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.