Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Developing REsilient African cities and their urban environMent facing the pro-vision of essential urban SDGs (DREAMS)

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 该论坛旨在通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以处理，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作。 这些小组将建立跨学科网络，为可持续发展道路制定创新解决方案，并寻求评估经济、技术、机构与环境、气候、生物多样性和人类福祉之间的积极和消极相互联系，以了解实现可持续世界的潜在途径，该项目侧重于在三个非洲城市制定和评估可持续城市发展规划的设想方案。 该项目将自然科学和社会科学方法与基于智能计算机的解决方案相结合，为城市规划者提供关于环境状况和不同情景下潜在影响的可视化和定量信息。 项目小组力求加强规划者之间的合作，特别是侧重于城市边缘地区。 通常，这些地区是城市中最关键的部分，缺乏协调非正规住区的正式工具，往往导致风险管理（洪水、火灾）、健康和卫生以及空气质量方面的严重不利权衡。 该研究项目的结果将帮助我们了解社区如何创造更可持续的发展途径。该奖项反映了NSF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 award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. The forum aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will establish transdisciplinary networks to develop innovative solutions for sustainable development pathways and seek to assess the positive and negative inter-linkages between the economy, technology, institutions with the environment, climate, biodiversity, and human well-being to understand potential pathways to a sustainable world.The project focuses on developing and accessing scenarios for sustainable urban development planning in three African cities. The project combines, natural and social science methodologies with smart computer-based solutions to provide city planners with visual and quantitative information on the state of the environment and potential impacts under different scenarios. The project team seeks to intensify the cooperation between planners focusing particularly on urban fringes. Typically, these areas are the most critical parts in cities, where formal instruments to coordinate informal settlements are lacking, often resulting in highly negative trade-offs in risk management (flood, fire), health and sanitation, and air quality. The results of this research project will help us understand how communities can create more sustainable development pathways.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.