Planning: CRISES: Center for Urban Climate Adaptation Solutions

城市集中了人口、财富和基础设施，因此，城市集中了对气候变化带来的日益增长的风险的脆弱性。已经在社会和/或经济上被边缘化的人，如有色人种社区成员、贫困家庭和老年人，特别容易受到气候风险的影响。在许多城市，收入不平等加剧，获得城市基础设施和服务的机会不平等，使情况更加复杂。虽然研究人员和城市领导人越来越意识到需要建设更具气候适应力的城市，但该项目侧重于建立合作关系和筹备工作，以提出一个新的城市气候适应解决方案中心（CUCAS），该中心汇集了多个学科和机构的城市专家，与民间社会和公共部门利益攸关方密切合作，并将纽约市作为该项目的城市实验室。新中心的重要性在于其包容性，整体性，跨学科和深入参与的方法来理解气候变化危害的复杂性，以及公民积极参与塑造应对气候变化的平台。城市越来越多地受到气候变化的影响，如气温上升、降水模式变化、海平面上升以及极端天气事件。该项目清点了现有数据和数据需求，绘制了民间社会和机构能力图，并在三个核心研究领域进行了需求评估：1）对沿海和洪水泛滥、极端高温和空气质量造成的多种灾害气候变化风险进行全市范围的空间评估; 2）对影响气候脆弱性的社会经济因素以及应对气候变化的公民和公共能力进行全市范围的评估;探索新的城市数据技术的潜力，以支持更有效和公平的气候变化应对措施。该项目结合各种数据和知识来源，包括与民间社会伙伴合作，探讨是否有可能共同设计更有效、更适合具体情况的气候变化危害应对措施。基于这三个研究领域的工作，该项目构思了一个新的城市气候适应解决方案中心（CUCAS），作为纽约市，其他美国城市和其他城市的关键研究和知识中心，以及作为下一代城市气候变化研究人员的培训中心。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得支持的，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。

Cities concentrate people, wealth, and infrastructure, and, as a result, cities concentrate vulnerability to the growing risks posed by climate change. People who are already socially and/or economically marginalized, such as members of communities of color, families living in poverty, and the elderly, are particularly vulnerable to climate risks. In many cities, this is compounded by rising income inequality and unequal access to urban infrastructure and services. While researchers and city leaders are increasingly aware of the need to build more climate resilient cities, the project focuses on building collaborative relationships and the preparatory work to propose a new Center for Urban Climate Adaptation Solutions (CUCAS), which brings together urban experts in multiple disciplines and institutions, works closely with civil society and public sector stakeholders, and uses New York City as the project’s urban laboratory. The significance of the new Center is in its inclusive, holistic, transdisciplinary, and deeply engaged approach to the complexity of understanding climate change hazards as well as a platform where citizens actively participate in shaping responses to climate change. Cities are increasingly experiencing the effects of climate change impacts, such as rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and sea-level rise, as well as extreme weather events. The project inventories existing data and data needs, maps civil society and institutional capacities, and conducts a needs assessment in three core research areas: 1) a citywide spatial assessment of multi-hazard climate change risks from coastal and pluvial flooding, extreme heat, and air quality; 2) a citywide assessment of socioeconomic factors that affect climate vulnerabilities, as well as civic and public capacities to respond to climate change; and 3) an exploration of the potential for new urban data technologies to support more efficient and equitable climate change responses. By combining diverse sources of data and knowledge, including collaboration with civil society partners, the project explores if it is possible to co-design more effective, contextually appropriate responses to climate change hazards. Based on the work in these three research areas, the project conceptualizes a new Center for Urban Climate Adaptation Solutions (CUCAS), to serve as a critical research and knowledge hub for New York City, other U.S. cities, and beyond, as well as to act as a training center for the next generation of urban climate change researchers.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.