COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RCN-SEES for Urban Sustainability: Research Coordination and Synthesis for a Transformative Future

合作研究：RCN-SEES 促进城市可持续发展：研究协调与综合，打造变革的未来

• 批准号: 1140070
• 负责人: Daniel Childers
• 金额: $ 57.69万
• 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: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; RCN; SEES; Urban

This award is funded under NSF's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, which aim to address the challenges of creating a sustainable world. Understanding urban sustainability and improving the ability of policy makers to achieve sustainable management are pressing needs of the 21st century. Learning how to enable sustainable transitions for cities requires an understanding of the myriad transitions urban systems will face. To meet these challenges, this project will establish an interdisciplinary Urban Sustainability Research Coordination Network (RCN) that will integrate and synthesize urban research while incubating solutions-oriented products. This unique network will use a comparative approach across a diversity of cities that are in various degrees of transition to: 1) understand the social, economic, and environmental triggers that have led contemporary cities to crisis and transition; 2) use complex adaptive systems approaches to understand how contemporary cities react to transition triggers, and; 3) use the energy-water resource nexus as a lens to understand how contemporary cities may best transition to more sustainable futures. The Urban Sustainability RCN will begin with a broadly interdisciplinary core group of academics, students, postdocs, policy-makers, city planners, managers, and other action-focused urban players representing 14 cities in various stages of transition. Network expansion will be international, inclusive, nimble, and flexible as network objectives become more focused on incubating solutions-oriented projects. The network will use a wide array of collaborative tools to nurture synthesis activities, information sharing, and product dissemination during face-to-face activities, virtual interactions, and educational activities. Training new professionals and improve the ability of existing professionals to achieve urban sustainability objectives is an additional, educational goal of this network. The network also will develop new tools and motivations for the exchange of practical information among sustainability scientists, officers, and practitioners. The Urban Sustainability RCN will incubate activities and generate products about the most effective approaches and media for communication with practitioners.

该奖项是根据NSF的科学，工程和可持续性教育（SEE）活动资助的，旨在应对创造可持续世界的挑战。 了解城市的可持续性并提高政策制定者实现可持续管理的能力，这是21世纪的紧迫需求。 学习如何实现城市的可持续过渡需要了解城市系统将要面对的无数过渡。 为了应对这些挑战，该项目将建立一个跨学科的城市可持续性研究协调网络（RCN），该网络将在孵化面向解决方案的产品的同时整合和综合城市研究。 这个独特的网络将在各种各样的城市中使用一种比较方法，这些城市都在不同程度的过渡到：1）了解导致当代城市陷入危机和过渡的社会，经济和环境触发因素； 2）使用复杂的自适应系统方法来了解当代城市对过渡触发者的反应，并且； 3）使用能源资源联系作为镜头，以了解当代城市如何最好地过渡到更可持续的期货。 城市可持续性RCN将以广泛的跨学科核心核心小组的群体，学生，博士后，政策制定者，城市规划师，经理和其他注重行动的城市参与者，在各个过渡阶段，代表14个城市。 网络扩展将是国际，包容性的，敏捷的和灵活的，因为网络目标变得更加专注于孵化面向解决方案的项目。 该网络将使用各种各样的协作工具来培养综合活动，信息共享和在面对面活动，虚拟互动和教育活动中的传播。 培训新专业人员并提高现有专业人员实现城市可持续性目标的能力是该网络的另一个教育目标。 该网络还将开发新的工具和动机，以在可持续性科学家，官员和从业者中交换实践信息。 城市可持续性RCN将孵化活动，并为与从业者进行交流的最有效方法和媒体生成产品。