Workshop: Enhancing Resilience of Coastal Caribbean Communities: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for a Changing Climate

研讨会：增强加勒比沿海社区的抵御能力：气候变化的缓解和适应策略

• 批准号: 1623391
• 负责人: Rita Teutonico
• 金额: $ 4.13万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623391&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Enhancing; Resilience; Coastal; Caribbean

This award will support a workshop to promote North American collaborations in coastal reliance between researchers from the United States, Cuba, and Mexico. The workshop will take place in Havana, Cuba, and will focus on identifying comparative strategies that can be deployed to deal with local impacts of environmental change in the Caribbean region will take place in Havana, Cuba. An interdisciplinary group of ecologists, hydrologists, oceanographers, economists, social scientists, engineers, architects, and stakeholders will discuss potential solutions to coastal resilience challenges in Caribbean communities, with a focus on South Florida, Cuba, and Mexico. The discussions of the workshop will be summarized in a publication on shared best practices and strategies for achieving resilience across coastal communities. In addition, the workshop will result in the creation of an international network of researchers working on coastal resilience across the Caribbean region. By including postdoctoral scholars and early-career researchers in the workshop as both facilitators and participants, they will have the opportunity for professional development. Furthermore, the pipeline of scientists working on these important societal grand challenge issues will be strengthened. The workshop will engage American, Cuban and Mexican scientists, thus creating a broadly diverse group of researchers working together to develop adaptation and mitigation strategies for achieving coastal resilience.The group will discuss the state of knowledge on vulnerability of critical human and physical infrastructure to impending climate changes and projected sea level rise, as well as the gaps in research that need to be filled to enhance community resilience. The group will also focus on the urban ecology of the major coastal cities of Miami, Havana, and Cancun, with an emphasis on comparative strategies for increasing resilience in different countries. The participants will develop an integrative framework that will include natural processes, engineering/architecture, economy, social processes, and cyberinfrastructure. By using this approach, the participants aim to develop potentially transformative new perspectives to address coastal community challenges under changing climate change scenarios. Specifically, the workshop will seek to develop: 1) an improved understanding of the challenges facing Caribbean coastal regions vulnerable to climate change and sea level rise, 2) an agenda of research needed to improve the resilience and adaption of these Caribbean communities, and 3) a coordinated framework of experts poised to develop and disseminate such solutions to vulnerable communities.

该奖项将支持一个研讨会，以促进美国，古巴和墨西哥研究人员之间在沿海依赖的北美合作。 该研讨会将在古巴哈瓦那举行，并将专注于确定可以部署的比较策略来应对加勒比地区环境变化的当地影响，将在古巴哈瓦那发生。一个跨学科的生态学家，水文学家，海洋学家，经济学家，社会科学家，工程师，建筑师和利益相关者将讨论加勒比社区沿海弹性挑战的潜在解决方案，重点是南佛罗里达州，古巴和墨西哥。关于研讨会的讨论将在出版物中汇总有关在沿海社区中实现韧性的共同实践和策略的出版物。此外，研讨会将导致建立一个在加勒比地区沿海弹性工作的国际研究人员网络。通过在研讨会中包括博士后学者和早期研究人员作为促进者和参与者，他们将有机会进行专业发展。 此外，将加强从事这些重要的社会挑战问题的科学家管道。该研讨会将吸引美国，古巴和墨西哥科学家，从而创建一群多样化的研究人员，共同努力开发适应和缓解策略，以实现沿海的弹性。该小组将讨论有关关键人类和物理基础设施脆弱性的知识状态，以使海平面变化以及预计的海平面上升，以增强社区的差距，以及可以使社区的差距增强。该组织还将重点关注迈阿密，哈瓦那和坎昆主要沿海城市的城市生态，重点是提高不同国家的弹性的比较策略。参与者将开发一个综合框架，其中将包括自然过程，工程/建筑，经济，社会过程和网络基础设施。通过使用这种方法，参与者旨在发展潜在的变革新观点，以应对不断变化的气候变化情景下的沿海社区挑战。具体而言，研讨会将寻求发展：1）对加勒比海沿海地区面临的挑战有了深刻的了解，容易受到气候变化和海平面上升的攻击，2）需要研究的议程，以改善这些加勒比海社区的韧性和适应性，以及3）专家的协调框架，以发展和融合了这种易于发展的社区。