A Belmont Forum Scoping Workshop on Food, Water & Energy for Sustainable Global Urbanization: Accelerating Transitions to Sustainable Consumption and Production

该奖项为一个国际讲习班提供支持，以探讨在全球日益城市化的背景下平衡粮食-水-能源等关键问题的国际合作研究选择。实现可持续社会需要了解全球粮食、水和能源资源系统的相互关联性质。理想情况下，社会将尽量减少权衡，最大化这些资源之间的协同作用，以加速向可持续消费和生产（SCP）模式的过渡。这种“粮食-水-能源联系”方法可以通过帮助确定管理资源相互依赖性的综合解决方案，在促进全球可持续发展方面发挥关键作用。由于城市人口持续迅速增长，城市地区及其周围的发展尤其令人关切。因此，Nexus方法可以为跨城乡梯度加速向可持续社会过渡提供一个独特的视角。讲习班将汇集自然科学和社会科学学科的研究人员、利益攸关方和研究资助者，共同确定需要进行哪些国际合作研究，以便将粮食-水-能源关系方法与全球城市化背景下的可持续消费模式联系起来。本次研讨会的目标是：1。1 .从实践者和利益相关者的角度，就食物-水-能源关系中平衡资源的挑战以及城市化对这些权衡的影响，提供全球和区域视角；确定在制定加速向可持续消费和生产模式过渡的潜在机制方面的关键知识差距；说谎。3 .评估这些领域现有投资和项目的状况，确定国际合作时机成熟的领域；列出需要解决的优先社会挑战和相关的研究问题/主题，其中国际合作将增加实质性价值并产生重大进展。

This award provides support for an international workshop to explore options for international collaborative research on critical issues of balancing food-water-energy resources within the context of increased global urbanization. Achieving sustainable societies will require an understanding of the interrelated nature of global food, water and energy resource systems. Ideally, societies will minimize trade-offs and maximize synergies between these resources in order to accelerate transitions to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) patterns. This Food-Water-Energy Nexus approach can play a pivotal role in fostering sustainable global development by helping to identify integrated solutions to govern resource interdependencies. Development in and around urban areas is of particular concern due to the ongoing rapid population increases in cities. Therefore, the Nexus approach can offer a unique perspective on accelerating transitions to sustainable societies across the urban-rural gradient.The workshop will bring together researchers from natural and social science disciplines, stakeholders and research funders to collectively determine what international collaborative research is needed to link the Food-Water-Energy Nexus approach with sustainable consumption patterns in the context of global urbanization. The goals of this workshop are to:1. Provide global and regional perspectives from practitioners and stakeholders on challenges associated with balancing resources within the Food-Water-Energy Nexus and the impact of Urbanization on these tradeoffs;2. Identify critical knowledge gaps in the development of potential mechanisms to accelerate transitions to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) patterns; and3. Assess the state of existing investments and programs in these areas and determine areas ripe for international collaboration;4.Set out priority societal challenges to be addressed and the associated research questions/topics, where international collaboration will add substantial value and generate significant advances.