GCR: Social, Ecological, and Technological Infrastructure Systems for Urban Resilience

“日益融合研究”项目的目标是探索社会、生态和技术系统（SETS）如何相互作用，以产生对极端天气事件的脆弱性或复原力，以及如何引导城市set动态沿着更具弹性和可持续的轨迹发展。这个项目的动机是最大限度地减少极端事件对城市的影响，如飓风及其伴随的风暴潮、极端高温和暴雨事件带来的山洪暴发。研究小组将发展融合a)通过跨越社会、生态和技术领域的桥梁；b)将社会生态系统（SES）、社会技术系统（STS）和弹性工程理论整合成一个以适应能力为中心的弹性共同定义；c)与实践者和社区成员合作，共同设想有弹性的城市未来，并阐明实施面向系统的解决方案的需求。以亚特兰大、纽约、凤凰城和圣胡安为研究城市，该项目将：a)应用并整合电力、水、交通和建筑系统的模拟，以评估每个城市未来基础设施场景对极端事件的脆弱性；b)结合土地利用/土地覆盖（LULC）变化情景的高温和洪水暴露模式预估，以评估每个城市未来基础设施情景的未来极端事件风险；C)分析解决弹性和相关行动者代理的治理网络，包括愿景、系统脆弱性的心理模型、制度结构和决策过程，这些对于在未来情景中导航转型变化至关重要；d)采用参与式设想，共同制定弹性set基础设施的未来情景，并与从业者一起探讨对未来极端事件情景和社会-生态-技术变化的反应；E)建立一个研究者-实践者的跨学科过程，探索如何在不同的城市系统中实施弹性解决方案；f)综合未来模拟和场景的结果，在一个在线交互式研究人员-从业者可视化平台上作为潜在的决策支持工具。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The objective of this Growing Convergence Research project is to explore how social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS) interact to generate vulnerability or resilience to extreme weather events and how urban SETS dynamics might be guided along more resilient and sustainable trajectories. This project is motivated by the challenge of minimizing the impacts of extreme events, such as hurricanes and the accompanying storm surges, extreme heat, and flash flooding brought on by heavy rain events, on cities. The research team will develop convergence a) by bridging across the social, ecological, and technological domains; b) integrating socio-ecological-systems (SES), socio-technological systems (STS), and engineering theories of resilience into a common definition of resilience in which adaptive capacity is central; and c) working together with practitioners and community members to collaboratively envision resilient urban futures and articulating needs for implementing system-oriented solutions. Utilizing Atlanta, New York, Phoenix, and San Juan as study cities, this project will: a) apply and integrate simulations of power, water, transportation, and building systems to assess vulnerabilities to extreme events for future infrastructure scenarios in each city; b) model projections of heat and flood exposure combined with land use/land cover (LULC) change scenarios to assess future extreme event risk for future infrastructure scenarios in each city; c) analyze governance networks that address resiliency and associated actor agency, including visions, mental models of system vulnerabilities, institutional structures, and decision-making processes that are essential to navigate transformational changes in future scenarios; d) employ participatory visioning to co-develop future scenarios of resilient SETS infrastructures and explore with practitioners responses to future extreme event scenarios and social-ecological-technological changes; e) develop a researcher-practitioner transdisciplinary process to explore how resilience solutions might be implemented in diverse urban systems; and f) synthesize outcomes of future simulations and scenarios in an online interactive researcher-practitioner visualization platform as a potential decision-support tool.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.