CIVIC-PG Track A: From Crisis to Opportunity: Addressing Rapidly Escalating Wildfire Risks on Colorado's Front Range through a Science-based Natural Climate Solutions Approach

保护社区免受灾难性火灾的影响，同时致力于缓解全球变暖和有利于生物多样性的解决方案，这是由科罗拉多大学博尔德可持续景观和社区中心组织的这个项目的主题。该团队包括公民领袖，利益相关者和学者，将评估当地试点项目的潜在影响，这些项目可以最大限度地减少建筑和自然社区的灾难性火灾威胁。 这些行动对生物多样性和土壤肥力等生态特征同时产生影响和可能的惠益，并可减少温室气体。 这一努力的关键是制定可行的科学活动，公共和私营实体都可以以很低的成本立即实施。这些行动侧重于“绿色解决方案”的地方和区域价值，这些基于自然的行动可以提高社区的复原力，并有益于利益相关者的身心健康。该项目的可交付成果之一是优先考虑为支持野火缓解而开发的影响最大的自然气候解决方案。这些措施包括综合公共和私人土地管理的野火复原力的最佳做法的基础上观察到的火灾行为在不同的土地管理/土地使用的情况下，在当地或地理类似的设置。 该项目正在制定一个框架，以便对优先自然气候解决方案进行全面的成本/效益分析，包括碳/气候稳定效益和相关的气候复原力效益（降低温度、增加雨水渗透、减少能源消耗）。将通过结合和分析合作伙伴研究项目、自然土地生态调查和城市社区科学调查的数据集，评估土地管理做法对土壤健康、昆虫和鸟类多样性和丰度的影响。在所有情况下，评价都将包括承认利益攸关方在执行方面的局限性。 该项目是对“公民创新挑战”项目A轨道的回应。生活在不断变化的气候中：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。

Protecting communities from catastrophic fire while concurrently working on solutions that can mitigate global warming and benefit biological diversity is the topic of this project organized by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities. The team that includes civic leaders, stakeholders, and academics will assess the potential impact of local pilot projects that can minimize the threat of catastrophic fire in both built and natural communities. Such actions have concurrent impacts and possible benefits to ecological characteristics such as biological diversity and soil fertility, and could reduce greenhouse gases. The crux of this effort is to develop actionable science activities that can be implemented immediately at little cost by both public and private entities. These actions focus on the local and regional value of ‘green solutions,’ nature-based actions that can increase community resilience and benefit the physical and mental wellbeing of stakeholders.This project addresses catastrophic fire prevention and climate solutions. Among the deliverables of this project are the prioritization of the highest impact natural climate solutions to be developed to support wildfire mitigation. These include a synthesis of public and private land management best practices for wildfire resilience based on observed behaviors of fire under different land management/land use scenarios within local or geographically analogous settings. The project is developing a framework for conducting a full cost/benefit analysis of priority natural climate solutions, including both the carbon/climate stabilization benefits and the related climate resilience benefits (reduced temperatures, increased storm water infiltration, reduced energy consumption). An assessment of the impacts from land management practices to soil health, and insect and bird diversity and abundance will be conducted by combining and analyzing data sets from partner research projects, ecology surveys on natural land, and urban community science surveys. In all cases, recognizing stakeholder limitations to implementation will be included in evaluations. Of considerable interest, assessment of actions in terms of effects on other actions will be highlighted.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track A. Living in a changing climate: pre-disaster action around adaptation, resilience, and mitigation—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.