SRN: Urban Water Innovation Network (U-WIN): Transitioning Toward Sustainable Urban Water Systems

1444758阿拉伯美国是世界上城市化程度最高的国家之一，80%以上的人口居住在城市。2012年盖洛普（Gallup）对环境问题的一项民意调查显示，正是由于对水的依赖，美国人对水的威胁表达了比其他任何环境问题都更大的担忧，也正是因为如此，近一半的美国人对水非常担忧。城市水连接着自然建造的系统，支撑着从小城镇到特大地区所有人类住区的长期健康和复原力。的确，所有人类的生命都依赖于水。城市供水系统的复杂性违背了“烟囱式思维”，需要可持续发展研究网络提出的以城市供水为重点的系统方法。该网络将来自14个机构的观点和资源联系起来，每个机构都有长期的水研究和教育项目，并与美国各地的水和城市可持续性利益相关者保持密切联系。该网络的使命是推进基础知识，建设能力，并建立合作，以找到促进可持续城市水系统的技术和行为解决方案。该网络寻求与包容、公平和可持续的城市发展相一致的广泛采用的解决方案。城市的可持续性取决于供水的数量和质量，以满足社会经济部门和生态系统的需要。可持续发展的城市还要求水系统能够抵御洪水、极端天气事件和气候变化。城市产生的水污染、用水和洪水以及其他压力可能威胁到对地方和全球发展至关重要的自然、社会和经济资产。城市水系统从自然水资源和生态系统中获取并影响自然水资源和生态系统，并利用庞大而昂贵的基础设施来满足经济、社会和环境需求。这些基础设施及其影响由一组分散的机构管理，这些机构面临动员系统组织和管理的集体行动的挑战。因此，pi建议建立一个可持续发展研究网络，即城市水创新网络（U-WIN），以城市水系统为重点，在研究人员、教育工作者、管理人员、政策制定者和利益相关者之间建立合作关系，这对于解决这些复杂、相互交织的系统中固有的核心挑战至关重要。U-WIN的使命将是推进基础知识，建设能力，并建立合作，以找到促进可持续城市水系统的技术和行为解决方案。这些项目将寻求与包容、公平和可持续的城市发展相一致的广泛采用的解决方案。这些项目将遵循适应性和综合性的研究、教育和推广计划，促进利益相关者的参与，以评估与可持续解决方案相关的可行性、影响和权衡。这一过程将从在城市规划和设计中协同利用水资源中获得最大利益。这一过程将从在城市规划和设计中协同利用水资源中获得最大利益。ppi将与城市可持续发展董事网络（USDN） （http://usdn.org）合作，该网络包括100多名代表美国和加拿大约5000万居民的城市的地方政府专业人士，而Netwerc H2O （www.netwerch2o.eu）将通过与全球50多个城市的联系，促进我们实现目标。Netwerc H2O是欧洲城市和地区政府促进可持续水管理实践的协会。在城市供水系统面临这些挑战的激励下，pi为U-WIN网络制定了以下研究目标：1. 通过建立界定各区域可持续城市水系统基本特征的概念框架，制定国家城市水管理蓝图；2. 描述城市发展模式与影响自然-人类耦合水系统可持续性的相互关联的自然/社会经济过程之间的相互作用和反馈；3. 确定可持续的技术、社会经济和管理城市水解决方案，这些解决方案可以减轻其他部门的压力，增强弹性，最大限度地提高协同效益，并衡量其跨时间和空间的影响和权衡；4. 探索和解释美国大都市地区成功过渡到可持续城市水系统所需的系统制度框架。鉴于社会水部门的多样性，该网络将采用多方面的方法来确保其城市水可持续性方法的长期可行性。该网络的一个优势是所有14个机构的调查人员与当地社区、州和联邦机构以及国家非政府组织的密切联系。pi打算利用这些合作来发展可持续的关系，从而转化为有价值的研究和教育机会。重要的是，参与该网络的每个机构都致力于与院长、负责研究的副校长和教务长密切合作，探索将该网络制度化的选择。此外，pi将充分探索城市水可持续发展中心将提供的成员资格、团队建设和项目开发机会，作为维持整个网络研究和基础设施支持的一种方式。最后，pi将与美国各地的水技术孵化器实体密切合作，探索网络内开发的产品、技术和服务的商业化机会

1444758ArabiThe United States is one of the most urbanized nations in the world with more than 80 % of the population residing in cities. Reliance on water is why Americans express greater concern about threats to water than about any other environmental issue and why nearly half of all Americans worry a great deal about water, according to a 2012 Gallup poll of environmental concerns. Urban water connects coupled natural-built systems and underpins the long-term health and resilience of all human settlements, from small towns to mega-regions. Indeed, all human life depends on water. The complexity of urban water systems defies stovepipe thinking and requires the systems approach proposed in the Sustainability Research Network focused on urban water. The network links perspectives and resources from 14 institutions, each with longstanding programs in water research and education, and close ties to water and urban sustainability stakeholders across the U.S. The mission of the network is to advance the fundamental knowledge, build capacity, and forge collaborations needed to find technological and behavioral solutions that promote sustainable urban water systems. The network seeks solutions that achieve widespread adoption consistent with inclusive, equitable and sustainable urban development.Urban sustainability depends on a supply of water in sufficient quantity and quality to meet the needs of socioeconomic sectors and ecosystems. Sustaining cities also requires water systems to be resilient to flooding, extreme weather events, and climate change. Water pollution, consumption, and flooding produced by cities along with other pressures can threaten the natural, social, and economic assets that are essential for local and global development. Urban water systems draw from and impact natural water resources and ecosystems Urban water systems draw from and impact natural water resources and ecosystems and utilize vast and expensive infrastructures to meet economic, social, and environmental needs. These infrastructures, and their effects, are managed by a fragmented set of institutions that is challenged with mobilizing collective action for systems organization and management. Therefore the PIs propose a Sustainability Research Network, Urban Water Innovation Network (U-WIN), focused on urban water systems to forge the collaborations among researchers, educators, managers, policymakers and stakeholders that will be essential to addressing the core challenges inherent in these complex, interwoven systems. The mission of U-WIN will be to advance the fundamental knowledge, build capacity, and forge collaborations needed to find technological and behavioral solutions that promote sustainable urban water systems. The PIs will seek solutions that achieve widespread adoption consistent with inclusive, equitable and sustainable urban development. The PIs will follow an adaptive and integrative research, education and outreach program that facilitates stakeholder engagement in order to assess the feasibility, impacts and tradeoffs associated with sustainable solutions. The process will derive maximum benefits from using water synergistically in urban planning and design. The process will derive maximum benefits from using water synergistically in urban planning and design. The PIs will team with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) (http://usdn.org) includes over 100 local government professionals representing cities across the U.S. and Canada with about 50 million residents, and Netwerc H2O (www.netwerch2o.eu) will facilitate achieving our goals via linkages with more than 50 cities around the world. Netwerc H2O is an association for European municipal and regional governments promoting sustainable water management practices. Motivated by these challenges confronting urban water systems, the PIs have formulated the following research goals for the U-WIN network; 1. Develop a national Urban Water Management Blueprint by creating a conceptual framework that defines the essential characteristics of sustainable urban water systems across regions; 2. Characterize interactions and feedbacks between urban development patterns and the interconnected natural/socioeconomic processes that impact the sustainability of coupled natural-human water systems; 3. Identify sustainable technological, socioeconomic, and management urban water solutions that reduce pressures, enhance resilience and maximize co-benefits in other sectors, and measure their impacts and tradeoffs across time and space; 4. Explore and explain the systemic institutional frameworks required for successful transitions toward sustainable urban water systems in metropolitan regions across the U.S. Given the diverse nature of the water sector of society, the Network will adopt a multi-faceted approach to ensure the long term viability of its approach to urban water sustainability. One strength of the Network is the robust connection of investigators at all 14 institutions with local communities, state and federal agencies and national NGO's. The PIs intend to utilize these collaborations to develop sustained relationships that can turn into valuable research and educational opportunities. Importantly, each institution involved in the Network is committed to exploring options for institutionalizing the network in close collaboration with their deans, vice presidents for research and provosts. Additionally, the PIs will fully explore membership, team building, and project development opportunities that the Urban Water Sustainability Hub will present as a way to sustain research and infrastructure support for the Network as a whole. Finally, the PIs will explore opportunities for commercialization of products, technologies, and services developed within the Network in close collaboration with water technology incubator entities across regions in the U.S.