Planning: CRISES: Building a Center for Resiliency in Rapidly Developing Communities

美国正在经历新的快速人口转移。高房价、COVID-19大流行的持续影响以及婴儿潮一代中许多人即将退休是人口迁移模式的潜在因素。这种人口转移的影响令人担忧，因为许多正在和已经经历快速增长的地区是历史上生活成本较低的地区，被确定为或接近Justice40弱势地区，并且被认为具有更理想的气候。经历人口快速增长的社区必须协调与增长相关的众多发展挑战，并制定适当和及时的环境、经济和社会政策对策。拟议的规划活动将探索、确定和建立跨学科机制，以理解快速发展的复杂系统的弹性。拟议中的快速发展社区弹性中心（CCRDC）的规划参与者来自不同的方法论观点和学科。人口增长是一个当代和系统层面的问题，需要适当和充分地应对气候变化。人口的快速增长，即一个地区或社区正净移民的急剧增加，尤其令人担忧，因为它有可能造成或加剧气候变化挑战。虽然邪恶问题的概念和增长极限的工作（例如，社会生态系统或社会工程生态系统）指导了最初的规划工作，规划活动为构建健全的基础科学研究协议和计划奠定了基础，这些协议和计划可以跨越各种理论，并可能对现有理论基础做出新的贡献，或者为理解人口快速增长对受影响和周围社区的影响的弹性反应创造新的理论结构。CCRDC平台的规划活动为参与研究人员提供了一个机会，帮助确定中心未来研究和推广活动的范围和方法。这有助于加强实现CCRDC长期目标的能力，该目标是向正在经历当前或预期未来增长的社区提供及时和适当的基于弹性的建议和支持。该项目将由一组跨学科的研究人员参与，目的是在以后从事跨学科和共同生产的研究。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。

The United States is experiencing new rapid population shifts. High housing prices, the lingering impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pending retirement of many individuals within the Baby Boomer generation are underlying factors to population migratory patterns. The impact of such population shifts is of concern given that many of the areas that are and have experienced rapid growth are those with historically lower costs of living, are identified as or near Justice40 disadvantaged areas, and are perceived to have more desirable climates. Communities experiencing rapid population growth must reconcile the numerous challenges of development associated with growth and establish appropriate and timely environmental, economic, and social policy responses. The proposed planning activities will explore, identify, and establish interdisciplinary mechanisms for understanding resiliency in rapidly developing complex systems. Planning participants for the proposed Center for Resiliency in Rapidly Developing Communities (CCRDC) come from a diverse range methodological perspectives and disciplines. Population growth is a contemporary and system level concern for appropriately and adequately addressing climate change. Rapid population growth, whereby a region or community experiences a drastic increase in positive net migration, is particularly concerning given the potential to create or exacerbate climate change challenges. While the wicked problems concept and the work of Limits to Growth (e.g., socio-ecological systems or socio engineered-ecological systems) guides the initial planning efforts, the planning activities establish a basis for structuring sound basic-science research protocols and plans that can bridge across various theories and potentially lead to novel contributions to existing theoretical bases or lead to the creation of new theoretical constructs for understanding resiliency responses to rapid population growth's effects on impacted and surrounding communities. The planning activities for the CCRDC platform provide an opportunity for participant researchers to help define the scope and approach of the Center’s future research and outreach activities. This helps to strengthen the ability to achieve the long-term goal for the CCRDC, which is to provide timely and appropriate resiliency-based recommendations and support to communities undergoing current or anticipated future growth. The project will engage an interdisciplinary set of researchers with the intent to later engage in transdisciplinary and co-produced research.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.