RII Track-1: Idaho Community-engaged Resilience for Energy-Water Systems (I-CREWS)

全国需要积极应对气候、人口和技术变化对美国西部主要流域能源和水（E-W）系统的影响。“爱达荷州社区参与的能源和水系统复原力”（I-CREWS）项目将利用爱达荷州的斯内克河流域来解决两个问题：1)在确定气候驱动、人口和技术变化的复原力策略时，包括存储、效率、保护、本地知识和治理动态在内的E-W系统的权衡和变化发挥了什么作用？(2)如何结合不同的认识方式、社区参与和先进的建模，从而实现更公平、更有弹性的机电一体化未来？爱达荷州为该项目提供了一个很好的测试平台。这是由于爱达荷州的景观特征，它跨越了一系列梯度（例如，水文，地形，人口统计，司法管辖）和人口密度（例如，小型农村城镇和美洲原住民社区到不断扩大的城市地区）。I-CREWS项目的结果将为全国的多系统弹性和E-W问题提供信息。I-CREWS将由爱达荷大学与博伊西州立大学、爱达荷州立大学、Shoshone-Bannock部落和Coeur d'Alene部落合作管理。I-CREWS项目将通过一个新的部落国家研究网络（TNRN）来提高与合作部落国家的研究能力，该网络将重新集中部落与爱达荷州大学之间的知识交流，重点是通过发展部落起源的研究进行合作。I-CREWS的主要研究主题是：(1)表征和评估弹性策略连续体的E-W配置；(2)模型和表示E-W配置及其弹性；(3)发展东西向轨迹的替代未来情景及其对变化的适应能力。I-CREWS的研究人员将在他们的假设中使用社会环境技术系统（set）类型学，即经历E-W系统变化的社区可以通过不同尺度的set类型学来表征，以确定对气候驱动、人口和技术变化的多系统恢复力模式。I-CREWS的研究人员旨在确定采用set干预措施是否能提高E-W系统的恢复能力并降低脆弱性。这项研究将调查在社区决策背景下相互竞争的目标（例如，能源、水、资源、公共使用、地方价值）之间的相互作用。I-CREWS项目将吸引各方面的合作伙伴（科学家、土地管理者、政策制定者、行政人员、部落民族和最终用户）参与，以推进更全面的科学与管理和政策战略的整合，以实现有弹性的管理和治理，从而提供有地方价值的选择和能力建设，以实现项目的影响。I-CREWS将通过与社区成员共同创建的高背景、社区参与的课程和项目来支持劳动力发展和学生培训，以解决E-W系统问题。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。

There is a national need to proactively address the impacts of climate, population, and technological change on energy and water (E-W) systems across key watersheds in the western U.S. This "Idaho Community-engaged Resilience for Energy-Water Systems" (I-CREWS) project will use Idaho’s Snake River Basin watershed to address two questions: 1) What role do trade-offs and changes in E-W systems, including storage, efficiency, conservation, local knowledge, and governance dynamics, play in determining resilience strategies for climate-driven, population, and technological change? and (2) How does incorporating diverse ways of knowing, community engagement, and advanced modeling lead to more equitable and resilient E-W futures? The State of Idaho provides an excellent testbed for the project. This is due to the features of Idaho’s landscapes, which span a range of gradients (e.g., hydrologic, topographic, demographic, jurisdictional) and population densities (e.g., small rural towns and Native American communities to expanding urban areas). The results of the I-CREWS project will inform multisystemic resilience and E-W issues nationally. I-CREWS will be administered by the University of Idaho in collaboration with Boise State University, Idaho State University, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, and the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. The I-CREWS project will grow research capacity with partner Tribal nations through a new Tribal Nations Research Network (TNRN), which will be developed to recenter knowledge exchange between Tribes and Idaho universities, focusing on collaboration through the development of tribally-originated research. The key research themes of I-CREWS are to: (1) characterize and evaluate E-W configurations for a continuum of resilience strategies; (2) model and represent E-W configurations and their resilience; and (3) develop alternative futures scenarios of E-W trajectories and their resilience to change. I-CREWS researchers will use socio-environmental-technological systems (SETS) typologies in their hypothesis that communities undergoing changes in their E-W systems can be characterized by SETS typologies at different scales to determine patterns of multisystemic resilience to climate-driven, demographic, and technological changes. I-CREWS researchers aim to determine whether the adoption of SETS interventions increases resilience and reduces vulnerability in E-W systems. The research will investigate the interaction of competing objectives (e.g., energy, water, resources, public use, local values) in a community-decision context. The I-CREWS project will engage partners across constituencies (scientists, land managers, policymakers, administrators, Tribal nations, and end users) in order to advance the integration of more comprehensive science with management and policy strategies for resilient stewardship and governance, thus providing locally-valued choices as well as capacity-building to achieve the project’s impacts. I-CREWS will support workforce development and student training through high-context, community-engaged courses and projects that are co-created with community members to address E-W systems issues.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.