Coupled Production-Consumption Systems for Climate Change Mitigation: Designing Equitable Food, Energy, and Water Conservation Strategies

1541816(沃特金斯)。这次研讨会将汇集来自多个学科的专家，以改进对粮食、能源和水(少数)生产-消费系统的了解和管理，确定减缓气候变化的战略。重点是基于少数保护战略的气候变化缓解，主要研究问题如下：我们如何最好地设计少数几个保护战略，以减少温室气体排放，避免对个别少数部门和环境造成意想不到的后果，使少数生产商在财务上可行，并为少数消费者接受？在少数生产方面，需要数据和模型来量化和预测资源使用、温室气体排放以及与满足少数安全目标的替代方案相关的成本。然而，还需要认识到，这些目标不是预先定义的，而是基于人类的目标和行为，这些目标和行为是复杂的、不同的，并且随着新的信息和替代方案的出现而不断演变。虽然在分析社会生态系统可持续性方面的最新水平在不断提高(例如，复原力)，但这些概念并没有应用到少数几个联系上。为了在为数不多的联系对话中增加这一重要方面，本次讲习班将侧重于减少消费和制定综合气候变化减缓-适应战略，考虑到内生的社会经济反馈。需要一种综合的缓解-适应方法，因为缓解气候变化的土地、能源和水管理战略必须考虑到在当前温室气体水平下已经发生的变化。此外，要走向可持续消费，就需要了解只有很少的生产系统可能受到影响。讲习班成果将通过一份白皮书和一篇Eos文章广泛传播，该白皮书和Eos文章将确定基于生产-消费系统耦合方法的少数保护战略的关键研究前沿。

1541816 (Watkins). This workshop will bring together experts from a broad range of disciplines to identify climate change mitigation strategies based on improved understanding and management of coupled food, energy and water (FEW) production-consumption systems. The focus is on climate change mitigation based on FEW conservation strategies, with the following overarching research question: How can we best design FEW conservation strategies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, avoid unintended consequences to individual FEW sectors and the environment, be financially viable for FEW producers, and be acceptable to FEW consumers? On the FEW production side, data and models are needed to quantify and predict resource use, greenhouse gas emissions, and costs associated with alternatives for meeting FEW security goals. However, there is also a need to recognize that these goals are not defined ex ante, but rather are based on human goals and behaviors which are complex, heterogeneous, and continuously evolve as new information and alternatives become available. While the state of the art in analyzing sustainability of socio-ecological systems continues to advance (e.g., resiliency), these concepts have not been brought to bear on the FEW nexus. To add this important dimension to the FEW nexus dialogue, this workshop will focus on reducing consumption and developing integrated climate change mitigation-adaptation strategies accounting for endogenous socio-economic feedbacks. An integrated mitigation-adaptation approach is needed because land, energy, and water management strategies for climate change mitigation must account for changes that will already occur given current greenhouse gas levels. Furthermore, moving towards sustainable consumption will require understanding of how FEW production systems may be affected. Workshop outcomes will be widely disseminated through a white paper and Eos article identifying critical research frontiers for FEW conservation strategies based on a coupled production-consumption systems approach.