Urban food waste solutions from farm-to-fork: A conference for advancing sustainable urban systems research networks

这笔赠款是为了支持可持续城市系统(SUS)研讨会。虽然在科学文献中主要从技术角度对食物浪费进行了研究，但现有的许多研究都分散在单一学科和相互脱节的案例研究中。建模、管理、评估和复制可持续的城市食物浪费解决方案将需要新的研究方法，在融合原则下组织，深度整合来自不同学科的知识和方法，并通过科学研究人员和嵌入食物供应链的利益攸关方之间有意义的合作来进行。SUS研讨会的目标是促进这些合作，提供一个跨领域交流知识的平台，并建立一个可持续的城市系统研究议程，围绕最大限度地减少和管理食物浪费这一具体而紧迫的问题来组织，以获得广泛的社会、经济和环境效益。一个关键方面是计划中的方法，以捕捉城市食物垃圾系统和解决方案的地理异质性，通过构建研讨会范围来考虑单个州多个城市区域的综合影响和对美国各地城市的比较分析。高效、有弹性和强大的食物供应链是可持续城市系统的关键部分。融合的研究网络创造的知识可以为设计资源节约型技术、政策和社会干预措施提供信息，以最大限度地减少城市及其所依赖的城市和城乡地区的食物浪费和随之而来的能源、水和资源使用。该讲习班推动的研究预计将产生多尺度跨界互动的新模式和针对城市食物浪费挑战的创新解决方案。这些发现具有广泛的社会、经济和环境效益，并将广泛传播给科学受众和利益相关者。研讨会预计将有助于更好地理解如何有效地传播SUS科学，以帮助个人、社区和企业采取行动，减少他们对食物浪费的贡献。研讨会还将为与会者提供新的理解和方法，让传统上代表不足的群体，特别是聋人/重听学习者和科学家，参与导致发现和创新的研究。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant is in support of a Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) workshop. While food waste has been studied in the scientific literature, primarily from the technical perspective, much of the existing research is fragmented across single disciplines and disconnected case studies. Modeling, managing, assessing, and replicating sustainable urban food waste solutions will require novel research approaches, organized under the principle of convergence, which deeply integrates knowledge and methods from different disciplines, and carried out through meaningful collaborations between scientific researchers and stakeholders embedded in the food supply chain. This SUS workshop is targeted to catalyze these collaborations, provide a platform of exchanging knowledge across fields, and establish a sustainable urban systems research agenda organized around the specific and compelling problem of minimizing and managing food waste for broad social, economic, and environmental benefit. A key aspect is the planned approach to capturing geographic heterogeneity in urban food waste systems and solutions, by structuring the workshop scope to consider both aggregate impact of multiple urban areas in a single state and comparative analysis of cities across the U.S. Efficient, resilient, and robust food supply chains are a critical part of sustainable urban systems. Knowledge created by convergent research networks can inform design of resource-efficient technologies, policies, and social interventions to minimize food waste and attendant energy, water, and resource use in cities and the peri-urban and rural regions on which they rely. Research catalyzed by this workshop is expected to generate new models of multi-scale transboundary interactions and innovative solutions for urban food waste challenges. These findings have potential for broad social, economic, and environmental benefit, and will be broadly disseminated to both scientific and stakeholder audiences. The workshop is anticipated to lead to greater understanding of how SUS science can be communicated effectively to help individuals, communities, and businesses take action to reduce their contribution to food waste. The workshop will also provide attendees with new understanding and approaches to engage traditionally underrepresented groups, particularly deaf/hard of hearing learners and scientists, in research leading to discovery and innovation.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.