RCN-SEES: Climate, Energy, Environment, and Engagement in Semi-Arid Regions (CE3SAR)

RCN-SEES：半干旱地区的气候、能源、环境和参与 (CE3SAR)

• 批准号: 1935088
• 负责人: Luis Cifuentes
• 金额: $ 1.88万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935088&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; SEES; Climate; Energy; Environment

This award is funded under NSF's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, which aim to address the challenges of creating a sustainable world. Research Coordination Network (RCN) CE3SAR (Climate, Energy, Environment, and Engagement in Semiarid Regions) is a comprehensive partnership of researchers at South Texas regional institutions and major research universities elsewhere advancing knowledge of science, engineering and education for sustainability (SEES). The network will develop and test an innovative model for conducting interdisciplinary, region-specific, sustainability research closely tied to the needs and interests of highly-engaged local stakeholders. RCN CE3SAR will aggregate regional research capacities specific to sustainability in semiarid climates contiguous to the Gulf of Mexico while leveraging research expertise infused from outside the region. Geographic information science (GIS) will play a key role in the process of integrating layers of scientific data, producing scientific insight and presenting new ideas, new research directions and new scientific knowledge to regional stakeholders as well as the scientific community. The network will align regional capacities that heretofore were largely disconnected and bring focus and synergy to a range of research that will profoundly impact the region and its socioeconomic future. The network will engage and educate regional communities, government and private-sector stakeholders throughout the process.South Texas comprises 28 counties, eight of which border Mexico and eight the Gulf of Mexico, where coastal marine and estuarine environments quickly become semiarid regions historically susceptible to drought. Climate change and its ripple effects, from rising seas to parched riverbeds, will profoundly affect South Texas socioeconomic structures, geographic distribution patterns and educational and cultural institutions. While much sustainability science focuses on global scales, local communities and institutions in South Texas and elsewhere face crucial decisions over the next 20 years driven by sustainability issues related to water, energy and use of space. Scientific knowledge must be available at relevant scales for those decisions to be informed by sustainability research; moreover, the science must be understood and accepted by the community, which plays a vital role in implementing the research results into its decision making and infrastructure. Experience has shown that importing researchers from outside the region with little or no connection to the community results in low acceptance of research results by local decision-makers and by the community at large; moreover, South Texas has been historically isolated and its residents suspicious of 'outsiders'. In order for sustainability research to have a salutary and substantive local impact, it must be advanced by regional researchers who also draw on national and international expertise.

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世界的挑战。 研究协调网络 (RCN) CE3SAR（半干旱地区的气候、能源、环境和参与）是德克萨斯州南部地区机构和其他地方主要研究型大学的研究人员的综合合作伙伴关系，旨在推进科学、工程和可持续发展教育 (SEES) 知识。该网络将开发和测试一种创新模型，用于开展与高度参与的当地利益相关者的需求和利益密切相关的跨学科、针对特定区域的可持续性研究。 RCN CE3SAR 将汇集针对邻近墨西哥湾的半干旱气候可持续发展的区域研究能力，同时利用来自该地区以外的研究专业知识。地理信息科学（GIS）将在整合科学数据层、产生科学见解以及向区域利益相关者和科学界展示新思想、新研究方向和新科学知识的过程中发挥关键作用。该网络将整合迄今为止基本上互不相连的区域能力，并为一系列研究带来焦点和协同作用，这将深刻影响该地区及其社会经济的未来。该网络将在整个过程中吸引区域社区、政府和私营部门利益相关者参与并对其进行教育。南德克萨斯州由 28 个县组成，其中 8 个县与墨西哥接壤，8 个县濒临墨西哥湾，这些县的沿海海洋和河口环境很快就变成了历史上容易受到影响的半干旱地区。干旱。气候变化及其连锁反应，从海平面上升到干涸的河床，将深刻影响南德克萨斯州的社会经济结构、地理分布模式以及教育和文化机构。虽然许多可持续发展科学都关注全球范围，但德克萨斯州南部和其他地方的当地社区和机构在未来 20 年将面临与水、能源和空间利用相关的可持续发展问题的关键决策。必须在相关规模上提供科学知识，以便可持续研究为决策提供依据；此外，科学必须得到社会的理解和接受，社会在将研究成果落实到决策和基础设施方面发挥着至关重要的作用。经验表明，从区域外引进与社区联系很少或没有联系的研究人员会导致当地决策者和整个社区对研究成果的接受度较低；此外，南德克萨斯州历史上一直处于孤立状态，其居民对“外来者”心存疑虑。 为了使可持续发展研究对当地产生有益和实质性的影响，必须由区域研究人员推动，并利用国内和国际的专业知识。