Coastal Sustainability: Clean, Safe, Smart, and Equitable Communities

该项目将组织和主办一个虚拟研讨会，以确定未来可能的基于自然的解决方案的趋同加速器轨道的参数，以支持沿海的可持续性。人类社区和经济都集中在世界的海岸线上。然而，持续的气候变化继续推动地球物理系统和社会生态系统之间复杂的相互作用，加剧了沿海社区及其经济面临的环境威胁。维持沿海人类社区已成为一个紧迫的社会优先事项。沿海可持续发展研讨会将利用基于自然的解决方案，并制定一个框架，确定相互作用和“摩擦点”，以确定哪种基于自然的解决方案最适合特定的沿海社区，以及实施这些解决方案的障碍是什么。研讨会组织者打算支持一个包容性的过程，考虑到在农村，少数民族和/或贫困社区居住的隐藏海岸-非海滨地区存在的不平等现象。目标是塑造利益相关者驱动、包容的融合研究的共同发展，并专注于实施可持续性解决方案，促进清洁、安全、智能和公平的沿海社区。研讨会寻求创建的框架将在协作讨论和分析因素（包括生态和地球物理、认知和社会、技术和经济）期间由大量利益相关者参与形成。目标是在不确定的环境中识别和创造机会：在管理实践中，在科学和社会理解中，在对威胁和机会的认知中。研讨会将共同确定围绕基于自然的沿海可持续性解决方案的开发和实施的不确定性的基础，以及克服这些不确定性的机制。这一过程将有助于识别、评估和优化各种沿海社区可行和可实施的可持续性解决方案。讲习班将产生的综合报告将提供一份蓝图，概述具体的拐点，在这些拐点上，对趋同研究的投资将最有效地加速社区的可持续成果。当社区与专家从业者合作共同创造基于自然的解决方案时，它们最有可能是有效的，确保解决方案能够满足特定的社区需求。本次研讨会计划与不同的社区组织、政府官员和许多学科的广泛技术专家积极接触，以确保最终的框架包括所有必要的声音。不同群体在解决问题方面的表现优于同质群体，聚集不同的利益相关者有望提高所探索解决方案的创造力，并为科学合作创造新的途径。通过将来自全国各地通常不直接互动的个人和组织聚集在一起，本次研讨会旨在促进关系建立和伙伴关系，这些关系和伙伴关系有可能延伸到融合加速器主题构想过程之外，帮助推进沿海可持续发展的科学和实践。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。

This project will organize and host a virtual workshop to identify the parameters for a potential future convergence accelerator track on nature-based solutions to support coastal sustainability. Human communities and economies are concentrated along the world’s coastlines. Yet ongoing changes in climate continue to drive complex interactions between geophysical and social-ecological systems that amplify environmental threats facing coastal communities and their economies. Sustaining human coastal communities has become an urgent societal priority. The Coastal Sustainability workshop will leverage nature-based solutions and develop a framework that identifies the interactions and "friction points" to determine what suite of nature-based solutions are best suited for a given coastal community and what the barriers are to their implementation. The workshop organizers intend to support an inclusive process that considers the existing inequities in the hidden coast – non-oceanfront regions where rural, minority, and/or impoverished communities reside. The goal is to shape the co-development of convergent research that is stakeholder-driven, inclusive, and focused on implementation of sustainability solutions that promote clean, safe, smart, and equitable coastal communities. The framework that the workshop seeks to create will be shaped by substantial stakeholder engagement during collaborative discussion and analysis of factors (including Ecological and Geophysical, Cognitive and Social, Technological, and Economic). The goal is to identify and create opportunities within a landscape of uncertainty: in management practice, in scientific and societal understanding, and in cognition of threats and opportunities. The workshop will collaboratively identify the basis of uncertainties around development and implementation of nature-based coastal sustainability solutions as well as mechanisms for overcoming them. This process will facilitate the identification, assessment, and optimization of viable and implementable sustainability solutions across a variety of coastal communities. The synthesis report that will result from the workshop will provide a blueprint that outlines the specific inflection points where investment in convergent research will be most effective in accelerating sustainable outcomes for communities.Nature-based solutions are most likely to be effective when communities co-create them in collaboration with expert practitioners, ensuring that the solutions are tailored to meet specific community needs. This workshop plans to actively engage with diverse community organizations, government officials, and broad range of technical experts across many disciplines to ensure that the resulting framework is inclusive of all necessary voices. Diverse groups have been shown to outperform homogeneous groups in problem solving and assembling diverse stakeholders is expected to improve the creativity of the solutions explored and create new avenues for scientific collaboration. By bringing together individuals and organizations from around the country that do not typically interact directly, this workshop seeks to facilitate relationship-building and partnerships that has the potential to extend beyond the Convergence Accelerator topic ideation process, helping to also advance the science and practice of coastal sustainability.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.