CAREER: Environmental Impacts of Closed Loop Food Production: Aquaponics as a Case Study

职业：闭环食品生产的环境影响：鱼菜共生作为案例研究

基本信息

批准号：
1942110
负责人：
Andrea Hicks
金额：
$ 50.97万
依托单位：
University of Wisconsin-Madison
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-02-01 至 2025-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1942110&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Environmental Impacts Closed Loop

项目摘要

New food production technologies are needed to feed the increasing global population, which is predominantly expected to inhabit urban areas. One option is aquaponically produced protein and vegetables. Aquaponic food production (where seafood and plants are grown in a closed loop system) is an innovation in food production, particularly with respect to growing food in urban areas. The main goal of this CAREER project is to generate new insights on the sustainability of aquaponics as a food production technology, while engaging students, aquaponic producers, and the general public around the issue of food sustainability. This project will quantify the life-cycle sustainability impacts of shifting food production to aquaponics with respect to the relevant food, energy, and water systems. These insights are critical to evaluating sustainable food production technologies for a growing urban world population.This project will 1) generate comprehensive data and new insight of the environmental and economic impact of aquaponics production at commercial scale across different plant and seafood species, 2) create new life cycle assessment impact categories specifically suited to aquatic food production systems, 3) optimize placement of aquaponic facilities, and 4) develop a new integrated model to be used by researchers and aquaponic facilities for determining their environmental and economic impacts of production. This work involves analysis across multiple scales, species, functional units, impact categories, and boundaries of aquaponic food production, in order to holistically determine the relative sustainability impacts of this novel food production system. This approach is targeted to result in fundamental new ways of conducting life cycle analysis and techno-economic assessment for these systems, which is critical for reducing the impact of future large-scale systems and avoiding potential unintended consequences or burden shifting as the technology is optimized and employed to feed a greater number of people with fewer resources.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.

需要新的粮食生产技术来养活不断增长的全球人口，这主要预计将居住在城市地区。一种选择是水培产生的蛋白质和蔬菜。水培粮食生产（海鲜和植物在封闭环境中生长）是粮食生产的创新，尤其是在城市地区种植的粮食方面。该职业项目的主要目标是对水培技术作为食品生产技术的可持续性产生新的见解，同时吸引学生，水培养产品生产者和公众围绕食品可持续性问题。该项目将量化有关相关食品，能源和水系统将粮食生产转移到水蛋白酶的生命周期可持续性影响。 These insights are critical to evaluating sustainable food production technologies for a growing urban world population.This project will 1) generate comprehensive data and new insight of the environmental and economic impact of aquaponics production at commercial scale across different plant and seafood species, 2) create new life cycle assessment impact categories specifically suited to aquatic food production systems, 3) optimize placement of aquaponic facilities, and 4) develop a new integrated model to be used by researchers and水上性设施来确定其生产的环境和经济影响。这项工作涉及分析多个量表，物种，功能单位，影响类别和水生粮食生产的边界，以便整体确定这种新型食品生产系统的相对可持续性影响。这种方法的目标是为这些系统进行生命周期分析和技术经济评估的基本新方法，这对于降低未来大规模系统的影响至关重要，避免在优化和使用较少的资源来养活更多人的智力上，并且已经通过nsf的宣传来养成了更多的宣传，并且避免了潜在的意外后果或负担转移，并且使用了更多的资源。和更广泛的影响审查标准。