SRS RN: Shared destinies: Hydro-social infrastructures for community involvement and sustainability in fragmented border regions

边境城市群面临着独特的可持续性挑战。这笔可持续区域系统规划赠款的重点是影响美墨边境三个主要地区的水问题，这三个地区涉及圣地亚哥/提华纳、埃尔帕索/华雷斯和下里约格兰德/巴霍·布拉沃山谷聚集区。该项目旨在绘制这些地区的研究资源、社区合作伙伴和社会基础设施的地图，参与者将与边境利益攸关方合作，确定与水有关的可持续性问题并确定优先事项。来自德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校、德克萨斯大学格兰德河谷分校和加州大学圣地亚哥分校的研究人员将在每个地点合作举办两个双语研讨会，以吸引社区合作伙伴并描述水问题、障碍和资产。该团队还将进行一项调查，以提供关于水问题、障碍和资产的更广泛和更定量的视角。最后，研究人员将对这些环境中关于水的现有数据、文献、报告等进行系统的收集和分析。通过这些活动，研究小组将在一个由复杂关系、不平等、文化和语言差异以及政治分歧定义的边境地区与民间社会和政府共同产生知识。可持续发展的挑战在国际边界等联系地点加剧，在这些地点，不同的人、商品、价值观和规则汇聚在一起，进行交流和调解。边境的城乡结合部构成了一个人口众多、快速增长的独特区域单位群。美墨边境是世界上不同财富地区之间人口最多的地带，拥有规模最大、增长最快、压力最大的集聚区之一。这一规划项目将通过描绘三个关键的边界动态来促进可持续发展领域，这些动态包括按繁荣和能力明显划分的人口之间相互的社会环境联系、在共享和管理共同资源方面的跨界合作以及政府、文化、语言和数据部门之间的协调。特别是，“公地”这一关键的科学和公共概念将受到挑战，并在代表因繁荣和其他内在联系的能力而划分的人口的边界地点得到进一步发展。总体而言，这项研究工作将朝着完全联合制作的可持续区域系统研究项目的方向发展。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Border agglomerations face distinctive sustainability challenges. This Sustainable Regional Systems planning grant is focused on water issues affecting three major zones along the U.S.-Mexico border that involve the San Diego/Tijuana, El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, and lower Rio Grande/Bajo Bravo Valley agglomerations. The project aims to map research resources, community partners, and the social infrastructure of these zones, and the participants will work collaboratively with border stakeholders to identify and prioritize water-related sustainability issues. Researchers from the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and the University of California, San Diego will collaborate on two binational, bilingual workshops in each site to engage community partners and to delineate water issues, barriers, and assets. The team also will conduct a survey to offer a broader and more quantitative perspective on water issues, barriers, and assets. Finally, the researchers will pursue a systematic collection and analysis of existing data, literature, reports, etc. on water in these settings. Through these activities, the research team will co-generate knowledge with civil society and government across a border region defined by complex relations, inequalities, cultural and linguistic differences, and political division.Sustainability challenges intensify at linkage sites, such as international borders, where differentiated people, goods, values, and rules come together for exchange and intermediation. Urban-rural agglomerations at borders constitute a populous, rapidly growing cohort of distinctive regional units. The U.S.-Mexico border, the most populated seam between regions of differing wealth in the world, has amongst the largest, most dynamically growing, and most stressed agglomerations. This planning project will contribute to the field of sustainability by delineating three critical border dynamics including the mutual socio-environmental linkage of populations that are divided markedly by prosperity and capacities, the transboundary cooperation in sharing and management of common resources, and the coordination across divisions of government, culture, language, and data. In particular, the key scientific and public concept of “commons” will be challenged and further developed at border sites that represent populations divided by prosperity and other capacities that are inherently linked. Overall, this research work will build towards a fully co-produced research project on sustainable regional systems.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.