Planning: CRISES: Climate Inequality and Integrative Resilience Center

不平等破坏了社区的气候适应能力，也就是他们适应、自我组织和应对气候变化相关破坏的能力。与此同时，气候变化将扩大现有的不平等。气候变化和不平等之间的恶性循环有多种相互作用的原因和后果，需要进行严格的跨学科研究。该规划项目将汇集研究人员、社区成员和实践者，设想并建立气候不平等和综合恢复力（CLIIR）中心。CLIIR中心将致力于推进关于不平等与气候适应能力之间联系的科学知识，为气候适应能力的政策决策提供信息。为了使中心成为一个有影响力的卓越中心，我们将根据融合（即跨学科）的研究原则和实践开展规划活动。规划活动将汇集学术和社区合作者进行对话和有组织的活动。这些活动将：1)扩大和深化外部伙伴关系；2)建立协作和跨学科研究的能力；3)明确新中心的主题领域；4)开发资源和框架，使CLIIR中心成为气候适应能力决策支持的枢纽。这些活动将包括社区对话、由研究报告推动的理论/方法对话、合作研究技能培训、气候正义研讨会，以及在波士顿大都会收集关于在气候适应能力项目中使用决策支持工具的案例研究。以气候适应能力和不平等为主题，我们将主要探讨三个研究主题：土著知识和治理、气候移民和气候变化与健康。这些主题将作为未来研究不同弹性领域的模型、相互作用和影响的测试案例，以及它们与不平等的交集。规划活动将产生关于气候变化影响导致不同社区生活质量结果的机制的研究问题和假设。  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。

Inequality undermines communities' climate resilience - or their ability to adapt, self-organize, and transform in response to climate change-related disruptions. At the same time, climate change will magnify existing inequalities. The vicious cycle between climate change and inequality has multiple interacting causes and consequences that call for rigorous interdisciplinary research. This planning project will bring together researchers, community members, and practitioners to envision and build the Climate Inequality and Integrative Resilience (CLIIR) Center. The CLIIR Center will aim to advance scientific knowledge on the links between inequality and climate resilience to inform climate resilience policy decisions. To establish the CLIIR Center as an impactful center of excellence, we will carry out planning activities informed by convergence (a.k.a. transdisciplinary) research principles and practices. The planning activities will bring together academic and community collaborators for dialogues and structured activities. These activities will: 1) expand and deepen external partnerships; 2) build capacity for collaborative and transdisciplinary research; 3) clarify the new Center's thematic areas; and 4) develop resources and frameworks to establish the CLIIR Center as a hub for climate resilience decision support. The activities will include community conversations, theoretical / methodological dialogues prompted by research presentations, collaborative research skills training, climate justice workshops, and the collection of case studies in metro-Boston on the use of decision-support tools in climate resilience projects. With climate resilience and inequality as an umbrella, we will primarily explore three research themes: Indigenous Knowledge and Governance, Climate Migration, and Climate Change and Health. These themes will serve as test cases for future studies on models of, interactions among, and impacts in different resilience domains and their intersections with inequality. The planning activities will yield research questions and hypotheses on the mechanisms through which climate change impacts lead to disparate quality-of-life outcomes in communities.  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.