RCN-SEES: Sustainable Adaptive Gradients in the Coastal Environment (SAGE): Reconceptualizing the Role of Infrastructure in Resilience

RCN-SEES：沿海环境中的可持续自适应梯度 (SAGE)：重新概念化基础设施在复原力中的作用

• 批准号: 1338767
• 负责人: Elisabeth Infield
• 金额: $ 73.67万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1338767&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; SEES; Sustainable; Adaptive; Gradients

The core objective of the Sustainable Adaptive Gradients in the coastal Environment (SAGE) Research Coordination Network (RCN) is to develop a transdisciplinary network of researchers and policymakers focusing on the Caribbean and U.S. Northeast that will put forward a shared framework for better informing resilient coastal infrastructure decisions based on physical, natural, and societal conditions. The network of US, Caribbean and European engineers, geoscientists, ecologists, social scientists, planners and policymakers is designed to build connections among diverse disciplines and improve the flow of information among leading researchers worldwide who are working on these topics. The RCN's products will be annual, intensive three- to four-day workshops, webinars, a training module synthesizing our findings, a survey of educational pathways in resilient infrastructure, journal publications and white-papers for policymakers translating our research findings into accessible language. All of these activities are intended to promote a diverse and comprehensive research network that fosters the future development of transformative, policy-relevant research initiatives. A new resilient infrastructure framework serves as the basis for this RCN, and includes understanding communities as existing and evolving within adaptive gradients, addressing spill-over and equity effects of infrastructure decisions, using evidence regarding the impacts of fast-onset disasters (e.g., hurricanes, tsunamis) to improve practices and policies for chronic, slow-onset phenomena (e.g. sea level rise), and tying the application of our theory to increasingly available indicators of climate change and local conditions. Caribbean region researchers and policy-makers are key partners in this effort as they bring extensive practical and research experience in managing disaster risk and recent highly innovative regional approaches to adapting to climate change.Recent storm events in the U.S. Northeast demonstrate that there is a pressing need for coordinated research into the resilience of coastal infrastructures to current hazards and the evolving effects of climate change. Infrastructure here includes physical structures, ecological services, and the social practices that influence the impact of hazards such as hurricanes and coastal flooding. Caribbean communities have long experience with planning for and responding to coastal hazards, while the Northeast has sophisticated infrastructural and research capacity on this topic. This project will create a network of US, Caribbean and European engineers, geoscientists, ecologists, social scientists, planners and policymakers to develop and promote a robust interdisciplinary analytic framework for the wide range of possible infrastructure responses to coastal hazards, including social, ecological, and engineering/technical factors. This will allow policy-makers to have clearer selection criteria for location-appropriate and climate-adapted sustainable coastal infrastructure policy. Coordination of research between the two regions opens possibilities for improving the long-term sustainability of coastal communities in both locations by improving decision-making regarding effective and sustainable new infrastructure. The project will generate greater participation among US minority students and researchers in, and improve student and professional access to, training in coastal resilient infrastructure design, planning and policy-making.

沿海环境可持续自适应梯度 (SAGE) 研究协调网络 (RCN) 的核心目标是建立一个由研究人员和政策制定者组成的跨学科网络，重点关注加勒比海和美国东北部地区，该网络将提出一个共享框架，以便更好地为沿海地区的恢复力提供信息基于物理、自然和社会条件的基础设施决策。该网络由美国、加勒比和欧洲的工程师、地球科学家、生态学家、社会科学家、规划者和政策制定者组成，旨在建立不同学科之间的联系，并改善全球从事这些主题研究的领先研究人员之间的信息流动。 RCN 的产品将是每年一次、为期三到四天的密集研讨会、网络研讨会、综合我们研究结果的培训模块、弹性基础设施教育途径调查、期刊出版物和白皮书，供政策制定者将我们的研究结果转化为易于理解的语言。所有这些活动都旨在促进多元化和全面的研究网络，促进变革性的、与政策相关的研究举措的未来发展。一个新的弹性基础设施框架作为该 RCN 的基础，包括了解社区在适应性梯度内的存在和演变，解决基础设施决策的溢出和公平效应，使用有关快速发生的灾害（例如飓风）影响的证据、海啸），以改进针对慢性、缓慢发生的现象（例如海平面上升）的实践和政策，并将我们的理论的应用与日益可用的气候变化和当地条件指标联系起来。加勒比地区的研究人员和政策制定者是这项工作的关键合作伙伴，因为他们在管理灾害风险方面带来了丰富的实践和研究经验，以及最近适应气候变化的高度创新的区域方法。美国东北部最近的风暴事件表明，迫切需要解决灾害风险问题。需要对沿海基础设施对当前灾害和气候变化不断变化的影响的恢复能力进行协调研究。这里的基础设施包括物理结构、生态服务以及影响飓风和沿海洪水等灾害影响的社会实践。加勒比地区社区在规划和应对沿海灾害方面拥有长期经验，而东北部地区在这一主题上拥有先进的基础设施和研究能力。该项目将创建一个由美国、加勒比和欧洲工程师、地球科学家、生态学家、社会科学家、规划者和政策制定者组成的网络，以开发和推广强大的跨学科分析框架，以应对沿海灾害的各种可能的基础设施应对措施，包括社会、生态、和工程/技术因素。 这将使政策制定者能够对适合地点和适应气候的可持续沿海基础设施政策有更明确的选择标准。两个地区之间的研究协调，通过改善有关有效和可持续的新基础设施的决策，为改善两个地区沿海社区的长期可持续性提供了可能性。该项目将促使美国少数族裔学生和研究人员更多地参与沿海弹性基础设施设计、规划和政策制定方面的培训，并改善学生和专业人员获得培训的机会。