Collaborative Research: WSC-Category 1. Sustainability Dynamics for Water Resources in a Rapidly Urbanizing and Climatically Sensitive Region

爱达荷大学和华盛顿州立大学被授予水、可持续发展和气候类型1奖，以开发组织框架，对华盛顿州斯波坎市的城市化及其对爱达荷州科达伦走廊水的影响进行系统评估。该框架建立在科学家和该地区当地社区之间的合作基础上。该奖项的主要目标将是更好地理解人类层面与水资源作为一个耦合的人-自然系统之间的联系。这将基于访问和评估现有数据和模型，并添加必要的新社会科学数据以改进、集成和优化已建立的模型。优化模型将开发可供斯波坎-科达伦走廊社区的政策制定者和决策者评估和采用的情景。该项目将采用系统方法解决水资源和人类活动的复杂交集问题，包括气候动态、水量/水质、景观动态、分布式和可再生能源、社会/经济因素、文化和人口变化、自然资源法、建成的环境/工程基础设施、交通规划/政策、城市-荒地/农业界面，以及环境变化带来的新威胁(例如，野火影响、入侵物种)。将完成的工作将由爱达荷大学和华盛顿州立大学以及州、联邦、城市、县和部落机构的研究人员完成，这些机构获取数据并负责管理他们的资源和社区。该奖项将建立一个教育和参与计划，让合作伙伴和核心利益相关者参与合作努力。将以三种方式产生更广泛的影响：(1)举办促进发现和理解的公共论坛；(2)向整个研究区域和该区域其他社区的利益攸关方广泛传播规划工作和产品；(3)通过与决策者探讨政策选择，将直接惠及社会。该项目将与教育项目合作，为K-12规划和教师培训提供STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)和可持续发展产品。与部落的伙伴关系将侧重于将代表人数不足的群体纳入研究，并将使土著和非土著研究生参与制定利益攸关方讲习班和教育方案。该计划将与Coeur d‘Alene、Spokane和Colville部落建立伙伴关系，并让美洲原住民研究生参与这一过程。由于其丰富的文化和历史，这些部落在研究和研究方案的推广方面是必不可少的伙伴。

The University of Idaho and Washington State University are awarded a Water, Sustainability and Climate Type 1 award to develop the organizing framework for a systematic assessment of urbanization and its impacts on water in the Spokane, Washington-Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Corridor. The framework is grounded in collaboration between scientists and the local communities in the area. The principal goal of the award will be to accomplish an improved understanding of linkages between human dimensions and water resources as a coupled human-natural system. This will be based on accessing and assessing existing data and models, and adding essential new social science data to refine, integrate, and optimize established models. Optimization models will develop scenarios that can be evaluated and adopted by policy and decision makers in the communities of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Corridor. A systems approach will be used in this project to address the complex intersection of water resources and human activity including climate dynamics, water quantity/quality, landscape dynamics, distributed and renewable energy, social/economic factors, cultural and demographic change, natural resource law, built environment/engineering infrastructure, transportation planning/policies, urban-wildland/agriculture interface, and new threats from changing environments (e.g., wildfire impacts, invasive species). The work that will be accomplished will be performed by researchers from the University of Idaho and Washington State University and the state, federal, city, county and tribal institutions that acquire data and are responsible for the management of their resources and communities.The award will build an education and engagement program that involves partners and core stakeholders in the collaborative effort. Broader impacts will occur in three ways: (1) holding of public fora that advance discovery and understanding, (2) providing broad dissemination of planning efforts and products to stakeholders throughout the study area and in other communities in the region, and (3) transferring direct benefits to society through the exploration of policy options with decision-makers. The project will partner with education programs to provide STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and sustainability products for K-12 programming and teacher training. Partnerships with the tribes will focus on integrating underrepresented groups into the research and will engage indigenous and non-indigenous graduate students in development of stakeholder workshops and education programs. The program will build partnerships with the Coeur d'Alene, Spokane, and Colville Tribes and engage Native American graduate students in the processes. Owing to their rich culture and history these tribes are essential partners in the research and outreach of the research program.