Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Stakeholder-supported decision making for sustainable conjunctive management of soil and groundwater (INCLUSIVE)

该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，这些研究人员通过贝尔蒙特论坛参与了由9个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由代表55个以上国家的研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持采取跨学科办法应对全球环境变化挑战和机遇。 它的目的是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。 研究小组将努力确定可持续的途径，以帮助减轻自然资源日益增加的前所未有的压力，这些自然资源相互作用，为社会提供可持续的生命支持系统和基本利益，如粮食生产和水质和数量。 将对土地管理和城市化方面的变化所产生的影响进行评价，以制定可持续的土壤和地下水管理办法，帮助建立和维持可持续的陆地生态系统。 随着全球地下水开采量的增加，产生了一系列经济和生态影响，许多国家正在实施限制地下水使用的监管制度。这些限制的实施往往存在问题，导致法规遵从性低。 该项目旨在证明，精心设计的利益攸关方流程可以提供社会接受的管理规则，并具有更高的合规性，从而提高地下水的长期可持续性。 该项目的重点是利益相关者的有效参与如何影响利益相关者的地下水知识，发展长期思考和权衡的能力，并有助于制定创新的法规。研究小组将调查从狭义的限制取水的地下水管理实践到联合土壤和地下水管理的范式转变，这种管理的重点是管理“净取水量”，考虑保留和补给，是否可以改善监管合规性。该项目将依靠在法国、美国和台湾的7个跨学科案例研究来进行集体学习，并确定成功的利益相关者流程的先决条件，以提供社会认可的地下水管理计划。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 9-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations representing over 55 countries focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It 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 research teams will work to identify sustainable pathways to help alleviate the increasing and unprecedented pressure on the natural resources that interact to provide sustainable life support systems and essential benefits to societies such as food production and water quality and quantity. The impacts of changes in land management and urbanization will be evaluated to develop sustainable soils and groundwater management options that will help create and maintain sustainable terrestrial ecosystems. As groundwater extraction increases worldwide, generating a range of economic and ecological impacts, many countries are implementing regulation systems to restrict groundwater use. Implementation of these restrictions is often problematic resulting in low regulatory compliance. This project seeks to demonstrate that well-designed stakeholder processes can deliver socially accepted management rules with higher compliance, thereby enhancing groundwater long-term sustainability. The project focuses on how effective stakeholder involvement impacts stakeholder groundwater literacy, develops capacity to think long-term and capture trade-offs, and contributes to developing innovative regulations. The research team will investigate whether a paradigm shift from narrowly defined groundwater management practices of limiting water abstraction to conjunctive soil and groundwater management which focuses on managing "net water extraction" accounting for retention and recharge can improve regulatory compliance. The project will rely on 7 transdisciplinary case studies in France, the United States and Taiwan to engage in collective learning and the identification of pre-conditions for successful stakeholder processes delivering socially accepted groundwater management schemes.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.