Urban food waste solutions from farm-to-fork: A conference for advancing sustainable urban systems research networks

从农场到餐桌的城市食物垃圾解决方案：推进可持续城市系统研究网络的会议

基本信息

批准号：
1929881
负责人：
Callie Babbitt
金额：
$ 4.79万
依托单位：
Rochester Institute of Tech
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-05-01 至 2020-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929881&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Urban food waste solutions farm

项目摘要

This grant is in support of a Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) workshop. While food waste has been studied in the scientific literature, primarily from the technical perspective, much of the existing research is fragmented across single disciplines and disconnected case studies. Modeling, managing, assessing, and replicating sustainable urban food waste solutions will require novel research approaches, organized under the principle of convergence, which deeply integrates knowledge and methods from different disciplines, and carried out through meaningful collaborations between scientific researchers and stakeholders embedded in the food supply chain. This SUS workshop is targeted to catalyze these collaborations, provide a platform of exchanging knowledge across fields, and establish a sustainable urban systems research agenda organized around the specific and compelling problem of minimizing and managing food waste for broad social, economic, and environmental benefit. A key aspect is the planned approach to capturing geographic heterogeneity in urban food waste systems and solutions, by structuring the workshop scope to consider both aggregate impact of multiple urban areas in a single state and comparative analysis of cities across the U.S. Efficient, resilient, and robust food supply chains are a critical part of sustainable urban systems. Knowledge created by convergent research networks can inform design of resource-efficient technologies, policies, and social interventions to minimize food waste and attendant energy, water, and resource use in cities and the peri-urban and rural regions on which they rely. Research catalyzed by this workshop is expected to generate new models of multi-scale transboundary interactions and innovative solutions for urban food waste challenges. These findings have potential for broad social, economic, and environmental benefit, and will be broadly disseminated to both scientific and stakeholder audiences. The workshop is anticipated to lead to greater understanding of how SUS science can be communicated effectively to help individuals, communities, and businesses take action to reduce their contribution to food waste. The workshop will also provide attendees with new understanding and approaches to engage traditionally underrepresented groups, particularly deaf/hard of hearing learners and scientists, in research leading to discovery and innovation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这笔赠款支持可持续的城市系统（SUS）研讨会。尽管主要从技术角度研究了科学文献中的食物浪费，但现有的许多研究都在单个学科和脱节的案例研究中分散。建模，管理，评估和复制可持续的城市食品废物解决方案将需要新颖的研究方法，该方法是根据融合原则组织的，该方法将来自不同学科的知识和方法深入融合，并通过嵌入食品供应链中的科学研究人员和利益相关者之间的有意义的合作来进行。该SUS研讨会的目标是促进这些合作，提供一个跨领域交流知识的平台，并建立一个可持续的城市系统研究议程，该研究议程围绕着最小化和管理食品浪费的特定而令人信服的问题，以实现广泛的社会，经济和环境利益。一个关键方面是，通过构建研讨会范围来考虑在单一州单个州的多个城市地区的总体影响，以及对美国高效，弹性和强大的食品供应链的城市比较分析，是考虑到多个城市地区对多个城市地区的总体影响，是捕获城市食品垃圾系统和解决方案中地理异质性的计划方法。融合研究网络创建的知识可以为资源有效技术，政策和社会干预的设计提供信息，以最大程度地减少城市以及城市和城市周围和农村地区的食物浪费，水和资源的使用。该研讨会催化的研究预计将产生新的多尺度跨界互动和城市食品废物挑战的创新解决方案的模型。这些发现具有广泛的社会，经济和环境利益的潜力，并将广泛传播给科学和利益相关者的受众。预计该研讨会将对如何有效地传达SUS科学，以帮助个人，社区和企业采取行动减少对食物浪费的贡献。研讨会还将为与会者提供新的理解和方法，以使传统上代表性不足的团体，尤其是聋哑人/难以听见的学习者和科学家，从而导致发现和创新。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过使用该基金会的知识分子的智力和更广泛的影响来通过评估来获得支持，并被视为值得获得的支持。