Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Building Socio-Ecological Resilience through Urban Green, Blue and White Space

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这项合作研究行动中，合作机构共同努力，为关注快速变化的北极地区的复原力的研究项目提供支持。 由科学家和利益攸关方组成的综合团队将解决北极复原力理解和行动的关键领域。这种学术和非学术知识体系的合作构成了一种跨学科的方法，不仅可以促进对北极恢复力基本原理的理解，还可以激励行动，为决策提供信息，并转化为恢复力的解决方案。 该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作。 通过城市绿色、蓝色和白色空间建设社会生态复原力项目将侧重于扩大关于开放空间对北极城市复原力影响的知识，北极城市主要被视为与恶劣气候和脆弱的北方自然隔绝的前哨。该项目的目的是利用北极城市热岛作为“时间机器”进行观测，以获得关于北极生态系统未来变化的知识。其主要目标是收集数据和知识，获得技能和专业知识，与当地社区交流这些知识，整合各种复原力指标，并全面了解北极城市的城市开放空间。该项目旨在通过数据收集、数据融合和分析的新技术，记录在城市、受干扰和原始（自然背景）类型的开放土地使用/土地覆盖空间中观察到的平行变化，从而针对该生态系统的自然复原力要素，推进跨学科气候-生态-政策（CEP）方法，以提高北极城市的复原力。 该项目将通过将气候-生态系统-社会开放空间价值纳入许多北极城市的城市规划工作，加强北极城市的复原力和适应能力。 预计该项目将提供可用于制定将地方和土著知识纳入城市规划和减缓气候变化的新方法的信息。它将提高当地居民和利益相关者对城市气候异常和生态系统对全球变化的反应、新建筑材料和空气质量问题的认识。该奖项反映了NSF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。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support for research projects that focus on Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Arctic. Integrated teams of scientists and stakeholders will address key areas of arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a transdisciplinary approach that will advance not only understanding of the fundamentals of arctic resilience but also spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The Building Socio-Ecological Resilience through Urban Green, Blue and White Space (SERUS) project will focus on expanding knowledge on the impact of open space on urban resilience in Arctic cities, which are mainly considered as outposts isolated from harsh climate and fragile northern nature. This project is aimed at obtaining knowledge about future shifts of Arctic ecosystems from observations using Arctic urban heat islands as a “time machine.” Its main objective is to collect data and knowledge, to gain skills and expertise, to exchange this knowledge with local communities, to integrate diverse resilience indicators and to create a holistic understanding of urban open space in the Arctic cities. The project seeks to advance a cross-disciplinary climate-ecology-policy (CEP) approach for improvement of Arctic urban resilience by targeting natural resilience elements of this ecosystem through novel technologies of data collection, data fusion and analysis documenting parallel changes observed in urban, disturbed and pristine (natural backgrounds) types of open land-use/land-cover spaces. The project will strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity of the urban Arctic through integrating climate-ecosystem-social open space values into urban planning efforts across many Arctic cities. The project is expected to provide information that can be used to develop new ways to incorporate local and indigenous knowledge in urban planning and climate mitigation. It will raise local population and stakeholder awareness about urban climate anomalies and ecosystem responses to global change, new construction materials and air quality issues.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.