Sustainable Use of Natural Resources to Improve Human Health and Support Economic Development (SUNRISE)

在全球范围内，人类社会面临着在气候变化的背景下实现自然资源的可持续利用以向日益增长的人口提供食物、燃料、水和便利设施的日益严峻的挑战。最根本的是，这将需要在不威胁环境支持未来再生的能力的情况下实现粮食和水的供应安全。日益城市化和富裕的人口正在推动对粮食、水、土地和其他自然资源日益增长和不断变化的需求，并导致环境退化。这些要求与气候变化及其相关的自然灾害结合在一起，是制定联合国可持续发展目标(SDGs，2015)的关键考虑因素。可持续发展目标带来的挑战需要长期的全国性研究解决方案。社发机构寻求通过减少环境风险、改善环境质量以及通过提供改善更广泛环境管理所需的证据和建议来提高粮食、水和其他自然资源供应的可靠性，从而改善生计和福祉。日出将解决中国、印度、印度尼西亚/马来西亚、肯尼亚和撒哈拉以南非洲其他国家的当地问题和研究需求，并实现千年发展目标1、2、3、6、13和15。社发所以已核准的NC-官方发展援助基金会奖为基础的研究主题为基础，目前正在开展的活动包括：(1)发展水文气候服务，以改进水资源管理和防洪抗旱预报；(2)恢复和补救退化的资源和环境，以改善人民的健康和经济安全；(3)管理土地资源，以确保环境的可持续性以及经济增长和复原力。将与国内合作伙伴和利益攸关方合作开发和提供这些服务，以满足其最紧迫的环境需求。水文气候服务是将当前和潜在的未来水文条件的数据和知识转化为信息，为更好的水政策、规划、管理和决策提供信息的工具和方法。科学挑战是调整CEH的模型和理解，使其在可接受的数据稀疏区域的不确定性水平上执行。为了应对这一挑战，我们将提高英国的研究能力，并提供工具、方法和评估，以减少极端事件对人们及其生计的影响，并提高人、牲畜和企业日常供水的可靠性和弹性。恢复和补救方案要求进行研究，旨在了解和量化导致环境退化的关键因素和过程，以及缓解措施所依赖的。这一专题将寻求通过确定影响系统恢复的速度和稳定性的关键因素，以及恢复的系统对未来变化的适应性，来填补知识空白。在研究现实世界中的这种知识差距时，这些发现将促进科学知识的发展，并为印度、中国、印度尼西亚、马来西亚和肯尼亚需要但具有全球相关性的新政策和管理方法提供参考。可持续地提高农业生产率显然是粮食供应的优先事项，也是缓解贫困的一条途径，特别是对于依赖小农农业的全球农业人口的83%来说。小农农业往往没有其应有的生产力：我们将与当地农学家合作，通过小农土地、水和牲畜管理的多样化，研究实现生态集约化的新方法，以提高生产率、复原力和可持续性。

Globally, human societies face a burgeoning challenge of achieving sustainable use of natural resources to provide food,fuel, water and amenities for an increasing population under the context of climate change. At its most fundamental, thiswill require achieving food and water security of supply without threatening the ability of the environment to support futuregenerations.An increasingly urbanized and wealthy population is driving a growing and changing demand for food, water, land andother natural resources and contributing to environmental degradation. These demands combined with climate change, andits associated natural hazards, were critical considerations in the development of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs, 2015). The challenges posed by the SDGs require long term national scale research-based solutions. SUNRISEseeks to improve livelihoods and wellbeing through reduced environmental risk, improved environmental quality andimproved reliability of the supply of food, water and other natural resources by providing the evidence and advice needed toimprove management of the wider environment. SUNRISE will address local issues and research needs in China, India,Indonesia / Malaysia, Kenya and other countries in sub Saharan Africa and address SDGs 1, 2, 3, 6, 13 and 15.SUNRISE builds on the research themes that formed the basis of the approved NC-ODA Foundation Award with activitycurrently in progress: (1) developing hydro-climate services for improved water resource management and flood anddrought forecasting and preparedness; (2) restoration and remediation of degraded resources and environments toimprove people's health and economic security, and; (3) management of land resources to ensure environmentalsustainability and economic growth and resilience. These will be developed and delivered in partnership with in-countrypartners and stakeholders to address their most pressing environmental needs.Hydro-climate services are tools and methods that translate data and knowledge of current and potential future hydrologicalconditions into information that will inform better water policy, planning, management and decision-making. The sciencechallenge is to adapt CEH's models and understanding to perform at an acceptable level of uncertainty in data sparseregions. In meeting this challenge we will both advance UK research capabilities and provide tools, methodologies andassessments to reduce the impact of extreme events on people and their livelihoods and increase the reliability andresilience of water supplies for people, livestock and businesses on a day to day basis.Restoration and remediation options require research aimed at understanding and quantifying the key factors andprocesses that cause environmental degradation and upon which mitigation measures rely. This theme will seek to fill aknowledge gap by determining the key factors that affect the rate and stability of recovery as systems are restored, and theresilience of restored systems to future change. In investigating this knowledge gap in real-world situations the findings willadvance science knowledge and inform new policy and management approaches needed in India, China, Indonesia,Malaysia and Kenya but with global relevance.Increasing agricultural productivity sustainably is a clear priority both for food provision and also as a pathway to alleviatingpoverty, particularly for the 83% of the global agricultural population who rely on smallholder agriculture. Small holderagriculture is often not as productive as it could be: working with local agronomists we will investigate new approaches toachieve ecological intensification, through diversification of smallholder land, water and livestock management to deliverimproved productivity, resilience and sustainability.