CoPe: RCN: Building a Collaboratory for Coastal Adaptation over Space and Time (C-CoAST)

发达的沿海环境是由人类活动和自然过程之间的相互作用形成的。这些相互作用级联，使得在危险事件的时间尺度（数月至数年）上促进适应的缓解和恢复战略在更长的时间尺度（数十年）上可能不适应。沿海适应时空研究协调网络合作实验室（C-CoAST-RCN）将建立新的协作能力，以解决两个重大挑战问题（GCQs）： 1)事件/恢复驱动的人类和自然系统动态如何改变社区、生态系统和景观的风险和复原力？2)什么样的杠杆——个人、社区、政府和其他群体的行动——能够使社区、生态系统和景观相互恢复？通过建立对人类-自然海岸系统的全面科学理解的能力，C-CoAST将使沿海系统从社区想要避免的未来状态转向他们认为更可取的结果成为可能。C-CoAST RCN的研究结果及其促进的研究将有助于最近活跃的国家级弹性规划。C-CoAST将来自不同国家的利益相关者（代表脆弱性和社会经济、政治和文化特征的差异）整合到网络活动中，最终共同制定研究议程和发展合作团队，这将扩大沿海研究的参与度，并有助于提高公众对科学的认识。解决C-CoAST RCN GCQs问题需要对耦合的人-自然海岸系统进行彻底的跨学科理解。C-Coast将融合不同的观点，并开发新的长期合作，跨越以前未跨越的边界。C-CoAST活动将整合来自许多学科的学者——生物地球化学、人口统计学、设计学、生态学、经济学、教育学、工程学、地貌学、水文学、土地利用规划、法律、非线性动力学、政治学、社会学、以及艺术和人文学科——他们研究人类动力学、自然动力学及其在沿海系统中的相互作用。C-CoAST将通过一系列便利的活动，整合研究人员、从业者和利益相关者在沿海地区的专业知识，建立和培养能力：a) 101学科研讨会，参与者分享他们的专业“语言”、观点和方法；b)小组聆听会议，研究人员、从业人员和利益相关者通过考虑短期耦合如何在更长的时间尺度上展开的方式，对管理沿海系统的障碍形成共同的理解；c)综合聆听会议结果并获得反馈的互动式公共旁听席；d)一个研究议程研讨会，共同提出和优先考虑具体的科普研究问题，并组建团队来解决这些问题。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。

Developed coastal environments are shaped by interactions between human activities and natural processes. These interactions cascade such that mitigation and recovery strategies that promote adaptation at the time scale of hazardous events (months to years) can be maladaptive on longer timescales (decades). The Collaboratory for Coastal Adaptation over Space and Time Research Coordination Network (C-CoAST-RCN) will build the new collaborative capacity necessary to address two Grand Challenge Questions (GCQs): 1) How do event/recovery-driven dynamics of human and natural systems alter risks and the resilience of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes?, and 2) What levers—actions of individuals, communities, governments, and other groups–enable mutual resilience of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes? By building the capacity for a comprehensive scientific understanding of the human-natural coastal system, C-CoAST will enable the potential for steering the coastal system away from future states that communities want to avoid, and toward outcomes they deem more desirable. C-CoAST RCN findings, and the research it facilitates, will contribute to recently invigorated state-level resilience planning. C-CoAST’s integration of stakeholders—from counties representing variations in vulnerability and socioeconomic, political, and cultural characteristics—in network activities culminating in co-production of a research agenda and development of collaborative teams will broaden participation in coastal research and contribute to improved public perceptions of science. Addressing the C-CoAST RCN GCQs requires a radically transdisciplinary understanding of the coupled human-natural coastal system. C-Coast will fuse diverse perspectives and develop new long-term collaborations that span previously uncrossed boundaries. C-CoAST activities will integrate scholars from many disciplines—biogeochemistry, demography, design, ecology, economics, education, engineering, geomorphology, hydrology, land-use planning, law, non-linear dynamics, political science, sociology, as well as the arts and humanities—who address human dynamics, natural dynamics, and their interactions within coastal systems. C-CoAST will build and cultivate capacity by integrating researcher, practitioner, and stakeholder expertise across coastal interests through a suite of facilitated activities: a) Discipline 101 Seminars in which participants share their specialized “languages,” perspectives, and methods; b) small-group Listening Sessions in which researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders develop a shared understanding of barriers to managing coastal systems in a way that considers how short-term couplings unfold over longer time scales; c) interactive, public Gallery Walks that synthesize Listening Session findings and elicit feedback; and d) a Research Agenda Workshop to co-produce and prioritize specific CoPe-science research questions and develop teams to address them.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.