SRS-RN: Land Use in Regional Sustainability Transitions: Establishing a Network of Research and Practice to Support Governance in Linked Urban and Rural Systems of Massachusetts

该项目的目标是通过综合土地利用规划和管理，促进马萨诸塞州联邦的可持续性和复原力。将土地用于一种目的，例如发电，可能对其他目的产生影响，例如可持续粮食系统和森林生态系统。区域景观反映了复杂的政治、经济、社会和文化力量。随着时间的推移，地方、州、地区和国家行为者做出的选择创造了具有一系列成本和收益的土地使用马赛克。未来的土地利用选择将影响对实现区域可持续性和气候适应能力至关重要的战略，如减少温室气体排放；确保粮食安全；支持健康的经济和社区；维护和改善自然环境。然而，跨行为体、区域和规模的土地利用规划和管理的协作和协调具有挑战性。该项目将推进马萨诸塞州的可持续发展和气候适应能力目标，支持本科生和研究生教育，并为其他城市和农村社区相连的地区提供综合土地利用治理的典范。本项目将通过调查土地利用选择如何在部门、规模和社区之间协调权衡、协同效应、风险、收益和公平，探索综合治理的挑战和机遇。为了实现这一目标，Tuler及其同事将扩大现有的合作伙伴关系，并为马萨诸塞州可持续发展综合景观和土地利用研究（MILLURS）网络奠定基础，以支持综合土地利用规划和管理。该网络将由不同的政策制定者、民间社会利益相关者和研究人员组成，他们的工作在多个尺度上与城市和农村社区的土地利用规划相交叉。规划赠款旨在1)描述政府和民间社会行动者之间的联系，他们的努力影响土地使用选择；2)识别具有共同目标或阻碍整合的结构和知识系统；3)共同制定土地利用综合治理目标的模型和措施；4)提出未来工作的结构，确定潜在的试点项目、研究问题和在未来努力中要完成的教育活动。这项工作将通过土地利用的视角推进可持续城乡区域系统的科学，将MILLURS网络的经验教训和来自三个学术和实践流的见解结合在一起：多层次治理；促进可持续性和复原力的综合知识系统和工具；以及分析审议过程，以支持不同利益相关者之间的共同学习和治理。该项目将通过在治理和气候适应能力沟通和协调薄弱的部门之间开展合作，推动协同治理。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。

The goal of this project is to promote sustainability and resilience in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through integrated land use planning and management. Using land for one purpose, such as energy generation, can have implications for other purposes, such as sustainable food systems and forest ecosystems. Regional landscapes reflect complex political, economic, social, and cultural forces. Over time, choices made by local, state, regional, and national actors create mosaics of land use with a range of costs and benefits. Future land use choices will affect strategies that are essential to achieve regional sustainability and climate resilience, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions; ensuring food security; supporting healthy economies and communities; and maintaining and enhancing natural environments. However, collaboration and coordination of land use planning and management across actors, regions, and scales is challenging. This project will advance sustainability and climate resilience goals in Massachusetts, support undergraduate and graduate education, and serve as a model for integrated land use governance in other regions with connected urban and rural communities. This project will explore the challenges and opportunities of integrated governance by investigating how land use choices mediate trade-offs, synergies, risks, benefits, and equity among sectors, scales, and communities. To achieve this goal, Tuler and colleagues will expand existing partnerships and lay the foundation for a Massachusetts Integrated Landscape and Land Use Research for Sustainability (MILLURS) Network to support integrated land use planning and management. The Network will be comprised of diverse policymakers, civil society stakeholders, and researchers whose work at multiple scales intersects with land use planning in urban and rural communities. The planning grant aims to 1) characterize the connections among governmental and civil society actors whose efforts impact land use choices; 2) identify the structures and knowledge systems that have common goals or are barriers to integration; 3) co-develop models and identify measures for integrated land use governance goals; and 4) propose a structure for future work and identify potential pilot programs, research questions, and educational activities to accomplish in future efforts. This work will advance the science of sustainable urban-rural regional systems through the lens of land use by drawing together lessons emerging from the MILLURS Network and insights from three streams of scholarship and practice: multi-level governance; integrated knowledge systems and tools for sustainability and resilience; and analytic-deliberative processes to support co-learning and governance among diverse stakeholders. This project will advance collaborative governance by initiating collaboration among sectors where communication and coordination for governance and climate resilience is weak.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.