SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Strengthening Resilience of Ojibwe Nations across Generations (STRONG): Sovereignty, Food, Water, and Cultural (in)Security

练习适应力对奥吉布族的生活方式至关重要。基于地域的重要性，Ojibwe世界观认识到四个等级依赖的秩序（物理，植物，动物，人类）和文化安全对于维持这些关系的重要性。当这些秩序中的任何一个受到威胁时，恢复力和可持续性也会受到威胁。例如，破坏环境的发展和气候变化，以及文化衰退，影响了社区应对气候变化和自然灾害的能力。该项目旨在通过汇集科学和传统生态知识，利用数据科学和先进传感技术，加强Ojibwe社区的数据主权、资源可持续性和气候适应能力，解决土著社区面临的复原力挑战。了解土著的复原力是一项复杂的努力。大多数复原力科学的发展通常与经历气候变化、自然灾害和极端天气事件的社区隔绝，主要关注城市、大规模粮食和能源生产、水资源和工业系统。整合科学和传统生态知识以增强复原力需要协作性的、主权肯定的、部落驱动的研究，以解决许多基本问题：(1)面对长期环境质量下降和短期极端事件，跨学科研究如何最好地促进复原力？(2)如何将科学和传统生态知识协同起来，提高土著社区的复原力；(3)哪些机制、工具和技术最能支持科学和传统生态知识的收集和综合？(4)哪些指标可以最有效地将综合知识转化为提高土著社区的恢复能力？该规划项目将工程、自然资源管理、计算机科学和社会科学领域的核心科学家与社区领导人和知识持有者聚集在一起，确定与文化相关的监测复原力指标，并共同开发决策支持工具，以加强社区复原力。这将通过以下方式实现：(1)发展对传统生态知识、系统和合作生产的基本和尊重的理解；(2)发展对Ojibwe复原力威胁的认识；(3)建立新的方法，将Ojibwe四阶的关系与最先进的环境传感和数据科学相结合，以帮助识别和评估弹性解决方案；(4)制定框架，以确定和分析Ojibwe国家适应和/或增强复原力的途径/拟议的计划将提供一个复原力框架，以开发监测、预测和响应系统以及决策工具，这些工具可以扩展到其他土著民族和社区，以促进文化、粮食和水安全。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。

Practicing resilience has always been vital to Ojibwe lifeways. Grounded in the importance of place, Ojibwe worldviews recognize the hierarchically dependent Four Orders (physical, plant, animal, human) and the importance of cultural security for maintaining these relationships. When any of these orders is threatened, resilience and sustainability are also threatened. Environmentally destructive development and climate change, alongside cultural decline, for example, impact communities’ abilities to respond to climate change and natural disasters. This project aims to address the resilience challenges faced by Indigenous communities by bringing together scientific and traditional ecological knowledge and utilizing data science and advanced sensing technologies to strengthen data sovereignty, resource sustainability, and climate resilience in Ojibwe communities. Understanding Indigenous resilience is a complex endeavor. Most resilience science generally develops in isolation from the communities experiencing climate change, natural disasters, and extreme weather events and focuses primarily on cities, large-scale food and energy production, water resources, and industrial systems. Integrating scientific and traditional ecological knowledge to strengthen resilience requires collaborative, sovereignty-affirming, tribally-driven research to address many fundamental questions: (1) How can transdisciplinary research best foster resilience in the face of long-term declines in environmental quality and short-term extreme events?; (2) How can scientific and traditional ecological knowledge be synergized to improve resilience in Indigenous communities?; (3) What mechanisms, tools, and technologies best support collection and synthesis of scientific and traditional ecological knowledge?; and, (4) What indicators can most effectively translate synthesized knowledge into improved resilience capabilities in Indigenous communities? This planning project brings together a core group of scientists in engineering, natural resource management, computer science, and social sciences with community leaders and knowledge holders to identify culturally relevant indicators for monitoring resilience and co-produce decision-support tools to strengthen community resilience. This will be achieved by: (1) developing a fundamental and respectful understanding of traditional ecological knowledge, systems, and co-production; (2) developing understanding of the threats to Ojibwe resilience; (3) establishing new methodologies incorporating the relationships of the Ojibwe Four Orders with state-of-the-art environmental sensing and data science to help identify and evaluate resilience solutions; and, (4) developing a framework to identify and analyze pathways to adaptation and/or increased resilience for Ojibwe nations/ The proposed plan will offer a resilience framework to develop monitoring, prediction, and response systems and decision-making tools that can be extended to other Native Nations and communities to advance cultural, food, and water security.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.