CAREER: Bolstering Food System Resilience to Reduce the Human Impacts of Disasters

该教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划奖的重点是推进食品环境科学，并通过加强粮食安全和粮食系统的复原力来加强社会和建筑环境系统对灾害的缓解和适应。粮食是人类生存的基本需要，当我们的家园、企业和其他结构遭到破坏，生命线中断时，社会系统在灾害情况下满足这一需要的能力就会受到损害。虽然各学科已经研究了构成更广泛的粮食环境和粮食安全问题的各种社会和人造环境系统的要素，但尚未在灾害环境中应用和测试全面、系统的方法。 本研究的总体目标是开发一个灾害中的食品环境（FED）模型，沿着以理论为基础的工具，以支持食品系统的弹性。该模型和相关工具的开发有助于更清楚地了解和监测粮食的可用性，可接受性和可获得性，以提高我们对灾害中粮食环境破坏的原因，后果和健康影响的理解。 这项工作有助于国家科学基金会的使命，促进科学的发展和验证一个新的理论模型和相关的指标对食品环境破坏和粮食安全的灾难。这项研究的成果将通过支持改善灾害后的粮食安全和粮食系统功能，促进国家健康，繁荣和福利。这个职业项目的目的是改变我们对受灾害影响社区的社会和建筑食品环境以及粮食不安全的破坏的理解。本研究的总体目标是开发灾害中食品环境（FED）的社会生态模型，相关指标和基于理论的工具，以产生可以增强食品系统对灾害的抵御能力的发现。这项研究摆脱了依赖非灾害背景下开发的粮食系统理论和指标的现状，转而了解灾害特定过程和结果，从而增强我们对灾害中粮食环境和安全知识的深度和实用性。开发一个关于灾害中粮食可获得性、可用性和可接受性的FED理论模型，将有助于改善粮食应对措施，增强粮食系统的复原力（目标1）。一个新的灾害研究实验室培训计划的基础上的重要学习分类将整合理论发展和实证测试活动（目标2）。用于监测备灾、影响、应对和恢复（目标3）的粮食系统环境审计工具组合将促进改善灾害中的粮食环境功能。预计这笔捐款将有助于解决严重的粮食不安全问题，这些问题可能使灾害后的长期粮食安全问题增加一倍或两倍。该项目的公众参与战略计划将指导与公众利益相关者和受众的有意义的参与，以最大限度地发挥研究活动的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

The focus of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is to advance the science of food environments and enhance the mitigation and adaptation of social and built environment systems to disasters by bolstering food security and the resilience of food systems. Food is a basic need for human survival and the ability of social systems to meet this need in disaster situations is compromised when our homes, businesses and other structures are damaged and lifelines disrupted. While elements of the various social and built environmental systems that make up the broader food environment as well as food security issues have been studied by various disciplines, a comprehensive, systematic approach has yet to be applied and tested in disaster settings. The overall objectives of this research are to develop a model of the Food Environment in Disasters (FED) along with theory-based tools to support food system resilience. The development of this model and associated tools facilitates a clearer understanding and monitoring of food availability, acceptability, and accessibility to enhance our understanding of the causes, consequences, and health effects of food environment disruption in disasters. This work contributes to NSF’s mission to promote the process of science by developing and validating a new theoretical model and associated metrics on food environment disruption and food security following disasters. The products of this research will advance national health, prosperity, and welfare by supporting improved food security and food system functioning following disasters. The purpose of this CAREER project is to transform our understanding of disruptions to the social and built food environment and food insecurity in disaster impacted communities. The overall objective of this research is to develop a socio-ecological model of the Food Environment in Disasters (FED), associated metrics, and theory-based tools to generate findings that can bolster food system resilience to hazards. This research departs from the status quo of relying on food system theory and metrics developed in non-disaster contexts to developing an understanding of disaster specific processes and outcomes, thereby enhancing the depth and utility of our knowledge of food environments and security in disasters. Developing a FED theoretical model of food accessibility, availability, and acceptability in disasters will support improved food response and bolsters food system resilience (Aim 1). A new Disaster Research Lab training program based on the Taxonomy of Significant Learning will integrate theory development and empirical testing activities (Aim 2). A portfolio of food system environmental audit tools (EAT) for monitoring disaster preparedness, impact, response, and recovery (Aim 3) will promote improved food environment functioning in disasters. This contribution is expected to help address acute food insecurity issues that can double or triple chronic food security problems following disasters. A public engagement strategic plan for the project will guide meaningful engagement with public stakeholders and audiences to maximize the impact of research activities.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.