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

爱达荷州大学和华盛顿州立大学被授予水、可持续性和气候1类奖，以制定组织框架，系统评估斯波坎、华盛顿-科达伦、爱达荷州走廊的城市化及其对水的影响。 该框架建立在科学家与该地区当地社区合作的基础上。该奖项的主要目标是更好地理解人类层面与水资源之间的联系，将其视为一个耦合的人类-自然系统。这将基于访问和评估现有的数据和模型，并添加必要的新的社会科学数据，以完善，整合和优化已建立的模型。优化模型将制定可供斯波坎-科达伦走廊社区的政策和决策者评估和采用的方案。 本项目将采用系统方法，以解决水资源和人类活动的复杂交叉问题，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、建筑环境/工程基础设施、交通规划/政策、城市-荒地/农业界面，以及来自变化的环境的新威胁（例如，野火的影响，入侵物种）。 这项工作将由来自爱达荷州大学和华盛顿州立大学以及州、联邦、市、县和部落机构的研究人员完成，这些机构负责获取数据并负责管理其资源和社区。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。更广泛的影响将通过三种方式产生：（1）举办公共论坛，促进发现和理解，（2）向整个研究区域和该地区其他社区的利益相关者广泛传播规划工作和产品，以及（3）通过与决策者探讨政策选择将直接利益转移给社会。该项目将与教育计划合作，为K-12编程和教师培训提供STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）和可持续性产品。与部落的伙伴关系将侧重于将代表性不足的群体纳入研究，并将使土著和非土著研究生参与利益攸关方研讨会和教育方案的制定。 该计划将与Coeur d 'Alene，斯波坎和科尔维尔部落建立伙伴关系，并让美国原住民研究生参与其中。由于其丰富的文化和历史，这些部落是研究和推广研究计划的重要合作伙伴。

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.