Workshop Support for the International Phosphorus Sustainability Summit at Arizona State University, February 2011

该项目支持国际可持续磷峰会？关闭人类磷循环：磷、食物和我们的未来？于2011年2月在亚利桑那州立大学校园举行。首脑会议的中心目标包括界定可持续发展问题的规模和范围，制定和交流可持续利用可持续发展的可行解决方案，以及提高本地和全球对这一问题的认识。首脑会议将使来自跨学科领域和专业（如生态学、生物地球化学、农学、社会学、工程学、经济学、人类健康、采矿、公共政策、法律和科学传播）的研究人员和实践者积极参与依赖这种资源所面临的可持续性挑战。面对日益增长的需求，来自不同背景的美国和国际专家将采用系统方法解决全球P供应问题。此外，峰会将为学生（本科生和研究生）和博士后合作伙伴提供论坛，与来自不同学科背景的专家合作，制定下一代可持续发展战略。首脑会议将讨论人类对一种重要的、不可再生的大量营养素的生物地球化学循环的影响；2)磷作为一种水污染物对水生生态系统的影响；3)“开放式”人类P循环问题的可持续解决方案。国际可持续磷峰会将使来自跨学科领域和专业的研究人员和实践者积极参与依赖这种资源所面临的可持续性挑战。此外，峰会将成为学生和博士后合作伙伴与来自不同学科背景的专家合作制定下一代可持续发展战略的论坛。值得注意的是，峰会由来自一系列学科单位的研究生和博士后合作伙伴组织。每个跨学科峰会研讨会将产生一个或多个出版物或成果，包括会议组织的书籍的章节，这些章节将讨论全方位的可持续发展问题，挑战和可能的解决方案。这本书（12-18章）将以印刷和电子形式出版，以方便所有感兴趣的利益相关者访问。此外，首脑会议工作组可以选择其他相关的出版物成果，包括针对特定利益攸关方群体的概述文章。最后，本次会议的一个主要目标是提高公众对未来几十年社会可能面临的磷可持续性挑战的认识。公众将通过合作的科学艺术竞赛和展览参与其中，鼓励艺术家与会议参与者合作创作以可持续发展为重点的艺术作品。此外，科学小组讨论和沙漠植物园的宴会晚宴将向公众开放。

This project is supporting the International Sustainable Phosphorus Summit ?Closing the Human Phosphorus Cycle: Phosphorus, Food, and our Future? being held on the campus of Arizona State University February, 2011. Central goals of The Summit include defining the scale and scope of P sustainability problem, developing and communicating possible solutions for achieving sustainable P use, and raising awareness about the issue, locally and globally. The Summit will enable researchers and practitioners from an interdisciplinary range of fields and professions (e.g. ecology, biogeochemistry, agronomy, sociology, engineering, economics, human health, mining, public policy, law, and science communication) to actively engage with the sustainability challenges faced by dependence on this resource. U.S. and international experts from multiple backgrounds will address global P supply in the face of increased demand using a systems approach. Additionally, The Summit will be a forum for students (undergraduate and graduate) and postdoctoral associates to collaborate with experts from different disciplinary backgrounds to develop next-generation sustainability strategies. The Summit will address human influences on the biogeochemical cycling of a critical, non-renewable macronutrient; 2) the implications of phosphorus as a water pollutant on aquatic ecosystems, and; 3) sustainable solutions to the problems of an 'open' human P cycle.The International Sustainable Phosphorus Summit will enable researchers and practitioners from an interdisciplinary range of fields and professions to actively engage with the sustainability challenges faced by dependence on this resource. Additionally, The Summit will be a forum for students and postdoctoral associates to collaborate with experts from different disciplinary backgrounds to develop next-generation sustainability strategies for P. Notably, the Summit is being organized by graduate students and postdoctoral associates from a range of disciplinary units. Transdisciplinary Summit workshops will each produce one or more publications or outcomes, including chapters for a conference-organized book that will address a full range of the P sustainability issues, challenges, and possible solutions. This book (12-18 chapters) will be published in print and electronically to facilitate access by all interested stakeholders. Additionally, Summit working groups may choose other relevant publication outcomes, including overview articles that target specific stakeholder groups. Finally, a main goal of this conference is to raise public awareness of the sustainability challenges society may face with phosphorus in the coming decades. The public will be engaged through a collaborative science-art competition and exhibit, in which artists are encouraged to collaborate with conference participants to create art focused on P sustainability. Additionally, the science panel discussions and banquet dinner at the Desert Botanical Garden will be open to the public.