NNA Incubator: Collaborative Research: Sustainable Transitions through Arctic Redevelopment (STAR)

航行新北极(NNA)是NSF的十大想法之一。NNA项目解决了快速变化的北极地区汇聚的科学挑战。这项北极研究需要为国家、更大区域和全球的经济、安全和韧性提供信息。NNA增强了从地方到国际的新的研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正式和非正式教育的努力，并在适当的情况下整合共同创造知识。该奖项通过支持具有明显潜力的规划活动来实现这一目标的一部分，以开发新的、前沿的研究想法和方法来解决NNA的目标。它整合了 自然环境、建筑环境和社会系统的各个方面， 解决了重要的社会挑战，并与国际合作伙伴接触。随着联合国于2021年启动生态恢复十年，朝着展望全球老龄化工业场地的可持续未来的势头正在增强。在北极，包括采矿作业在内的这些老化地点受到了极大的忽视，部分原因是该地区偏远。随着气候变暖导致冰和永久冻土融化增加，以及进入该地区的机会扩大，这些遗址越来越容易受到进一步恶化的影响，但也为了解如何为未来开发这些遗址提供了机会。该项目为了解北极不同工业场地的未来奠定了基础，重点是与当地社区合作，了解和展望北极的可持续发展目标。该规划赠款汇集了一支在北极具有广泛经验的学者团队，围绕工业化后采掘场地的可持续再开发目标制定研究议程。它包括美国(阿拉斯加)、加拿大(西北地区)、芬兰(拉普兰)、格陵兰(东南部)和瑞典(诺伯滕)的五个自然和政治地理位置不同的案例研究地点。将通过举办参与性空间分析和展望讲习班探讨工业后再开发专题，这些专题将包括：a)旧尾矿残渣中新的矿物开采前景；b)围绕矿物开采共存的旅游；c)将地下矿场改造为新型能源储存基础设施；d)使区域经济多样化，尽量减少土地利用的影响；e)为土著生计进行生态恢复。这项研究将有助于理解生活在采矿后社区的北极居民与他们的自然和文化景观之间的多方面关系。它还将有助于扩大具有复原力的基础设施的定义，以包括初级教育后的可持续使用和重新开发。该项目将加强美国三大主要机构和国际合作伙伴之间的伙伴关系，特别是欧盟。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。

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. This Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region, and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by supporting planning activities with clear potential to develop novel, leading edge research ideas and approaches to address NNA goals. It integrates aspects of the natural environment, built environment, and social systems, and addresses important societal challenges and engages with international partners.With the launch of the Decade on Ecological Restoration by the United Nations in 2021, momentum is growing towards visioning a sustainable future for aging industrial sites worldwide. In the Arctic, these aging sites, including mining operations, have experienced immense neglect in part due to the remoteness of the region. With climate warming leading to increased ice and permafrost melt and expanded access to the region, these sites are increasingly vulnerable to further deterioration but pose an opportunity to understand how these sites can be developed for the future. This project lays the groundwork for understanding these futures for diverse industrial sites across the Arctic, focusing on cooperation with local communities to understand and vision sustainable development goals for the Arctic.This planning grant brings together a team of scholars with broad experience across the Arctic to develop a research agenda around sustainable redevelopment goals of postindustrial extractive sites. It includes five case study sites with varying physical and political geographies in the United States (Alaska), Canada (Northwest Territory), Finland (Lapland), Greenland (Southeast) and Sweden (Norrbotten). Post-industrial redevelopment themes will be investigated by conducting Participatory Spatial Analysis and Visioning Workshops and will include, a) new mineral extraction prospects in old tailings residues; b) tourism around mineral extraction co-existence; c) transformation of underground mines for novel energy storage infrastructure; d) diversifying regional economy and minimizing land use impacts; and e) ecological restoration for Indigenous livelihood generation. The study will contribute to understanding the multifaceted relationship between Arctic residents that live in post-mining communities and their natural and cultural landscapes. It will also contribute to expanding the definition of resilient infrastructure to include sustainable post-primary use and redevelopment. The project will strengthen partnerships among the three lead U.S. institutions and international partners, particularly the European Union.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.