SRS-RN Planning Grant: Integrated and Convergent Sea Level Adaptation for Urban and Rural Systems in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Regions

拟议的规划赠款将解决位于墨西哥湾沿海地区(GCR)的城乡联系系统中应对海平面上升(SLR)的挑战。GCR中的城市和农村地区是由相互依存的节点通过协同联系连接起来的地理连续体的一部分，其中城市地区依靠农村地区获得自然资源，农村地区依靠城市地区提供服务。SLR威胁着GCR将城市和农村社区联系在一起的联系。与世界上许多地区相比，大中华区大部分地区的单反比率相当高，其地貌是相对低洼的沿海平原。此外，弱势少数群体占该区域城乡人口的很大一部分，造成了高度的社会脆弱性。GCR中典型的单反应对战略往往在城市和农村地区实行不同的做法。这笔规划赠款的目的是建立一项综合的单反适应战略，使城市和农村社区能够协作维持将它们连接在一起的自然和有形基础设施。拟议的办法将由专家的共同研究以及通过利益攸关方参与共同产生知识和想法来推动。项目团队将汇聚一个包容和多样化的研究人员、社区领袖和政策制定者组成的小组，他们通常不会互动。该小组将创建汇聚的研究成果，并培养利益攸关方关系，以建立一个合作的轨道1可持续区域系统研究网络(SRS-RN)提案。这项工作的执行将遵循三个阶段的轨迹：(1)将使用在线高性能图表来协调合作研究人员和利益攸关方，并汇集网络的基础；(2)将使用面对面的图表来共同产生拟议的SRS-RN的研究优先事项和假设；(3)将使用集中专家研讨会整合这些努力并综合输出产品。这笔规划赠款是一个独特的机会，以(A)联合跨学科团队，侧重于城乡联系的共性，(B)确定不同利益攸关方的优先事项、需求和激励措施，(C)在这些社区建立知识和信任，以及(D)为创新的研究网络结构制定研究目标、假设和方法。网络活动将侧重于将历史上被排除在SLR响应对话之外的少数群体、团体和机构包括在内。该奖项反映了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。

The proposed planning grant will address the challenge of responding to sea level rise (SLR) in linked urban-rural systems located along the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Region (GCR). Urban and rural areas in the GCR are part of a geographical continuum composed of interdependent nodes connected by synergistic linkages, wherein the urban areas depend on the rural areas for natural resources and the rural areas depend on the urban areas for services. SLR threatens the links that bind urban and rural communities together in the GCR. Compared with much of the world, the rate of SLR is quite high across much of the GCR and its landscape is a relatively low-lying coastal plain. Moreover, disadvantaged minority groups compose a large fraction of both the urban and rural population in this region, yielding a high degree of social vulnerability. The typical SLR response strategies in the GCR are often practiced differentially across urban versus rural areas. The aim of this planning grant is to build a consolidated SLR adaptation strategy that enables urban and rural communities to collaboratively sustain the natural and physical infrastructure that links them together. The proposed approach will be driven by convergent research of experts and by co-production of knowledge and ideas from stakeholder engagement. The project team will bring together an inclusive and diverse group of researchers, community leaders, and policy makers who do not normally interact. This group will create convergent research outputs and foster stakeholder relationships to build a collaborative Track 1 Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS-RN) proposal. The execution of this effort will follow a trajectory with three phases: (1) an on-line high-performance charrette will be used to coordinate partnering researchers and stakeholders, and assemble the foundations of the network, (2) an in-person charrette will be used to co-produce research priorities and hypotheses for the proposed SRS-RN, (3) a concentered expert workshop will integrate these efforts and synthesize the output products. This planning grant is a unique opportunity to (a) coalesce interdisciplinary teams, focus on the commonalities at the urban-rural linkages, (b) identify priorities, needs, and incentives of diverse stakeholders, (c) build knowledge and trust across these communities, and (d) formulate the research objectives, hypotheses, and methods for an innovative research network structure. Network activities will focus on the inclusion of minority constituencies, groups, and institutions that have been historically excluded from the SLR response conversation.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.