RCN - SEES: Sustainable Cities - People and the Energy-Climate-Water Nexus

RCN - SEES：可持续城市 - 人与能源-气候-水关系

• 批准号: 1361670
• 负责人: Anu Ramaswami
• 金额: $ 66.64万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1361670&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; SEES; Sustainable; Cities; People

1140384 (Ramaswami). This award is funded under NSF's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, which aims to address the challenges of creating a sustainable world. This project will develop a research collaboration network (RCN) across 20+ US universities and 2 national labs to coordinate work on the overarching theme of sustainable cities, with focus on reducing energy use, carbon emissions and mitigating climate-risks to water supply and public health in cities. The US network will collaborate with international sustainability research networks (in Australia, EU, Asia) and with a network of practitioners and policymakers in US and global cities. RCN activities will lead to the development of (a) inter-disciplinary systems framework(s) to represent linkages between people, infrastructures and the natural system, from the city-scale to the global scale, that shape sustainability outcomes in cities, (b) harmonized methods and international data standards to operationalize the framework, to report, for example, the carbon footprints of cities, water vulnerability of cities, or to analyze social actors who shape urban infrastructures and consumption patterns toward sustainability, (c) a network of 12 global cities for testing the framework and its component theories and models/methods in cities with different natural, infrastructural, socioeconomic and cultural characteristics, (d) a virtual collaborative forum to share research methods, experiences and teaching tools across more than 20+ US universities on the common thematic area of sustainable cities. The RCN will provide science based systems analysis tools, much needed by more than 1000 cities worldwide that are developing sustainability plans addressing energy, water and climate change. A unique aspect of this RCN is broad-based integration across urban ecology, industrial ecology, atmospheric sciences, infrastructure engineering, architecture, urban planning, behavioral sciences, public affairs and public health toward the goal of sustainable cities. Cross-discipline integration, coordination of data across scales, and cross-city comparisons are expected to advance the science of sustainable cities. The RCN has potential to impact more than 1200 students in participating US universities and 65 million people in the network of cities where field work will be coordinated. Dissemination potential is high through network links with policy groups such as ICLEI-USA and The World Bank who work with cities worldwide.

1140384（拉玛斯瓦米）。该奖项由 NSF 可持续发展科学、工程和教育 (SEES) 活动资助，旨在应对创建可持续发展世界的挑战。 该项目将建立一个涵盖 20 多所美国大学和 2 个国家实验室的研究合作网络 (RCN)，以协调可持续城市这一总体主题的工作，重点是减少能源使用、碳排放以及减轻供水和公共部门面临的气候风险。城市健康。美国网络将与国际可持续发展研究网络（澳大利亚、欧盟、亚洲）以及美国和全球城市的从业者和政策制定者网络合作。 RCN 活动将导致开发（a）跨学科系统框架，以代表从城市规模到全球规模的人、基础设施和自然系统之间的联系，从而塑造城市的可持续发展成果，（b） ）统一的方法和国际数据标准，以实施该框架，报告城市的碳足迹、城市的水资源脆弱性，或分析塑造城市基础设施和消费模式以实现可持续发展的社会参与者，（c）全球 12 个城市用于测试该框架及其在具有不同自然、基础设施、社会经济和文化特征的城市中的组成理论和模型/方法，(d) 一个虚拟协作论坛，在 20 多所美国大学之间分享关于共同主题领域的研究方法、经验和教学工具可持续发展的城市。 RCN 将提供基于科学的系统分析工具，这是全球 1000 多个正在制定解决能源、水和气候变化可持续发展计划的城市所急需的。该RCN的一个独特之处是跨城市生态学、工业生态学、大气科学、基础设施工程、建筑、城市规划、行为科学、公共事务和公共卫生的广泛整合，以实现可持续城市的目标。跨学科整合、跨尺度数据协调以及跨城市比较有望推动可持续城市科学的发展。 RCN 有可能影响参与项目的美国大学的 1200 多名学生以及协调实地工作的城市网络中的 6500 万人。通过与 ICLEI-USA 和世界银行等与世界各地城市合作的政策团体的网络联系，传播潜力很大。