Conference: Challenges to and Opportunities for Resilience in Rapidly Developing Urban Corridors; Austin, Texas; August 14-16, 2019

该项目资助了2019年8月14日至16日在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校举行的为期三天的会议。其目标是将研究人员、利益攸关方和政策影响者聚集在一起，围绕构成半干旱地区可持续城市系统的自然工程-人类子系统探索科学主题。会议的理想结果是围绕可持续城市系统的重大挑战，建立一个具有凝聚力的项目提案网络。会议将有演讲和分组会议，以及分组会议、心智模型练习、工具箱对话倡议和设计思维的创新活动。因此，这项科学研究贡献支持了NSF促进科学进步和增进我们国家福利的使命。在这种情况下，好处将是改善城市可持续发展的洞察力，这将拯救生命和经济损失。本次会议探讨了四个主题：1)过程和反馈，2)大数据，3)集成模型，4)联合设计研究。这些会议虽然必然是技术性的，但其目的是在全面推进跨部门伙伴关系的背景下阐明针对这些主题的不同和趋同的做法，这些伙伴关系吸引了最广泛的参与者，从公民科学家和社区组织者到可持续发展专业人员和当选的政策制定者。为支持这一方法，分组会议将使用已建立的系统建模工具包，更深入地研究在演讲期间发起的讨论，以便将各种主题的想法结合起来。改善跨学科交流是首要目标，讨论将通过开发共同的研究语言和衡量与会者在会议前后围绕他们对可持续城市系统科学的认知评价的趋同程度来加强科学合作。该奖项反映了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 project funds a three day conference to be held August 14-16, 2019 at the University of Texas, Austin. The goal is to bring together researchers, stakeholders, and policy influencers to explore scientific themes around natural -engineered-human subsystems comprising Sustainable Urban Systems in semi-arid regions. The ideal outcome of the conference is a cohesive network of project proposals around the grand challenges of Sustainable Urban Systems. The conference will have presentations and breakout sessions and innovative activities of breakout sessions mental models exercises, toolbox dialog initiative, and design thinking. This scientific research contribution thus supports NSF's mission to promote the progress of science and to advance our national welfare. In this case, the benefits will be insights to improve urban sustainability which will save lives and economic losses.This conference explores four themes: 1) Processes and Feedbacks, 2) Big Data, 3) Integrated Models, and 4) Co-Designed Research. While necessarily technical in nature, these conference sessions are designed to elucidate disparate and converging approaches to these themes within the context of holistically advancing cross-sector partnerships that engage the broadest range of participants, from citizen scientists and community organizers to sustainability professionals and elected policy makers. To support this approach, facilitated break-out sessions will use established system-modeling toolkits to delve deeper into discussions initiated during presentations to integrate ideas across theme topics. Improving transdisciplinary communication is an overarching goal, and the discussions will enhance scientific collaboration by developing a common research language and by measuring the degree of pre- and post-conference convergence among participants around their epistemic valuation of Sustainable Urban Systems Science.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.