Workshop: The Cadillac Desert 25 years later, at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis

研讨会：25 年后的凯迪拉克沙漠，国家生态分析中心

• 批准号: 0756817
• 负责人: John Sabo
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0756817&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Cadillac; Desert; 25; years

Intellectual Merit"The year 2011 will mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (1986, Penguin Books). In this book Reisner dissects the politics, economics and ecological folly of large water projects in the American West and suggests that Western (US) civilization as we know it will collapse due to ailing water management"sedimentation within large reservoirs, water shortages in urban areas and soil salinity reclaimed agricultural bread baskets. Much of Reisner's evidence is journalistic (e.g., expert opinion). We seek funding for a pair of workshops aimed at identifying the appropriate scientific data and analytical tools necessary for rigorously evaluating Reisner's journalistic apocalypses.Specifically, we will convene two organizational workshops in which we accomplish two goals: 1) collating data & identifying rigorous analytic approaches that would contribute to a regional synthesis of the hydrologic, geomorphic, economic, agricultural and ecological health of large Western water projects, and 2) writing a policy forum piece summarizing existing datasets"and most importantly identifying data gaps and research needs to complete this regional synthesis. This planning workshop will be held at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, and will form the basis for future working groups at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis and the incipient John Wesley Powell Center for Integrated Science (an incipient USGS think tank being designed in the spirit of NCEAS). Our roster of workshop participants includes hydrologists, geologists, ecologists, agricultural scientists, economists and lawyers (see Roster below). Thus, we hope to develop an agenda for the proposed regional synthesis with input from multiple fields of science and policy.Broader Impacts"The planned workshops would lead to synthesis of publicly accessible databases that could be used in future analyses of the broad scale impacts of reclamation in the Western US.B-

2011 年将是《凯迪拉克沙漠：美国西部及其消失的水》（1986 年，企鹅出版社）出版 25 周年。在这本书中，赖斯纳剖析了美国西部大型水利工程在政治、经济和生态方面的愚蠢行为。美国西部并表明，我们所知道的西方（美国）文明将因水管理不善而崩溃“大型水库内的沉积物，城市的缺水”地区和土壤盐分回收农业面包篮。赖斯纳的大部分证据都是新闻性的（例如专家意见）。我们为两个研讨会寻求资金，旨在确定严格评估赖斯纳的新闻启示所需的适当科学数据和分析工具。具体来说，我们将召开两个组织研讨会，以实现两个目标：1）整理数据并确定严格的分析方法这将有助于对西部大型水利项目的水文、地貌、经济、农业和生态健康进行区域综合，2) 撰写一篇总结现有数据集的政策论坛文章“以及最重要的是确定完成区域综合的数据差距和研究需求。该规划研讨会将在国家生态分析与综合中心举行，并将成为国家生态分析与综合中心和生态系统未来工作组的基础。初期的约翰·韦斯利·鲍威尔综合科学中心（一个初期的美国地质调查局智囊团，按照 NCEAS 的精神设计）。我们的研讨会参与者名单包括水文学家、地质学家、生态学家、农业科学家、经济学家和律师（见下面的名单）。因此，我们希望通过科学和政策多个领域的投入，为拟议的区域综合制定议程。更广泛的影响“计划中的研讨会将导致公共数据库的综合，这些数据库可用于未来分析美国西部的填海造地。B-