The Nature of Cities Summit--A movement for transdisciplinary green cities; Paris, June 2019

生态系统科学家在城市的规划和设计中发挥了很小的作用。这限制了人们在理解城市如何发展和运作方面的进步。生态特征，如生物多样性、能量流动、养分循环、水文和污染负荷，仍然知之甚少，特别是对负责城市设计的人来说。科学信息流向城市规划、设计和政策专业人员的速度相对较慢。可能有助于解决紧迫的城市问题的科学进步没有适当地纳入政策和实践。为了改善城市生态科学与规划、设计和管理城市的从业者之间的沟通，PIS建议将科学家和专业人士聚集在一个关于城市生态的独特国际峰会上。这次峰会的独特设计是为了同时促进对城市的科学理解以及更好的城市社会成果。PIs希望确保广泛的美国学生、生态系统科学家和从业者参与城市生态规划和设计。他们寻求扩大对城市生态研究和城市实践的参与，为代表不足的群体的成员、来自以本科生为主的机构的研究人员以及缺乏资金参加国际峰会的从业者提供资金。预期的科学成果是为了确保城市生态研究解决在应对现代城市的社会和环境挑战方面最紧迫的不确定性。将尖端生态系统科学整合到城市创造和管理的许多要素中具有巨大的潜力，但目前，这样做的途径很少。这次峰会提供了一个难得的机会，让科学家、规划者、设计师、艺术家、开发者、社区领袖和民选官员之间建立有意义和持久的合作，他们都有这些目标。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Ecosystem scientists have played a small role in the planning and design of cities. This is limiting advances in understanding of how cities develop and function. Ecological features like biodiversity, energy flow, nutrient cycling, hydrology and pollution loads, remain poorly understood, especially to those responsible for urban design. The flow of scientific information to urban planning, design, and policy professionals has been relatively slow. Scientific advances that may contribute to solving pressing urban problems have not been adequately incorporated into policy and practice. To improve communication between urban ecological science and the practitioners that plan, design, and manage cities, the PIs propose to bring scientists and professionals together at a unique international summit about the ecology of cities.This summit is uniquely designed to equally advance both scientific understanding of cities as well as better urban societal outcomes. The PIs wish to ensure participation from a broad range of U.S. students, ecosystem scientists, and practitioners in urban ecological planning and design. They seek to broaden participation in urban ecological research and urban practice by funding attendance from members of underrepresented groups, researchers from predominantly undergraduate institutions, and practitioners who lack the funds to attend an international summit. The intended scientific outcomes are to ensure that urban ecological research addresses the most pressing uncertainties in meeting social and environmental challenges in modern cities. There is great potential for integrating cutting edge ecosystem science into many elements of city creation and management, yet currently, there are very few avenues for doing so. This summit presents a rare opportunity to create meaningful and lasting collaborations between scientists, planners, designers, artists, developers, community leaders, and elected officials who share these goals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.