NSF2026: Convergence Around a Sustainable World Without Waste

NSF2026：围绕无浪费的可持续世界的融合

• 批准号: 2027185
• 负责人: Bhavik Bakshi
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2027185&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF2026; Convergence; Around; Sustainable; World

Every year, 10 million tons of plastic waste enter the oceans and 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted. This project will contribute to meeting such challenges by working toward a world without waste. It will identify the fundamental research needs and opportunities for achieving such a future that is also economically feasible, socially desirable, and environmentally viable. To achieve these goals, a series of workshops will held to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders across many disciplines from academia, industry, government and non-governmental organizations. Education curricula will be developed for a Masters program that will train students to work toward achieving a world without waste. For continuing research growth toward a sustainable world without waste beyond the duration of this project, a new section of a research society will organize regular conferences on this topic.This project will organize workshops with the overarching goal of examining the fundamental drivers underpinning the pressing challenge of spiraling global waste and resource consumption through the lens of convergence. An important realization from current efforts is that while engineering needs to play an important role by developing relevant technologies, other disciplines such as economics, social sciences, and environmental science are also essential for understanding and developing appropriate markets and societal incentives. Various disciplines need to forge links and transcend their traditional boundaries to move toward deeply convergent research approaches. In this project, multidisciplinary research teams will explore integration of knowledge, methods, models, and data necessary for creating and evaluating potential solutions. Co-creation of knowledge with stakeholder input will inform novel business models, engagement approaches, policy options, and innovative technical and science-based advances toward a sustainable world without waste. The proposed workshops will develop a framework for advancing convergent research and scholarship on the NSF big idea "World Without Waste." A new section will be established as a part of the International Society for Industrial Ecology to foster growth toward meeting these challenges.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.

每年，浪费了1000万吨塑料废物，浪费了13亿吨的食物。 该项目将通过在没有浪费的世界方面努力来解决这一挑战。它将确定实现这种未来的基本研究需求和机会，这种未来在经济上也是可行的，在社会上可取的，并且在环境上可行。 为了实现这些目标，将举办一系列研讨会，以汇集来自学术界，工业，政府和非政府组织的许多学科的各种利益相关者。 将为硕士课程开发教育课程，该课程将培训学生努力实现无浪费的世界。 为了持续向可持续世界的研究增长，而没有浪费该项目的持续时间，研究社会的新部分将组织有关该主题的定期会议。本项目将组织研讨会，其总体目标是通过转化的镜头来检查基本的驱动因素，以研究螺旋式浪费和资源消费的紧迫挑战。当前努力的一个重要认识是，尽管工程需要通过开发相关技术来发挥重要作用，但其他学科（例如经济学，社会科学和环境科学）对于理解和发展适当的市场和社会激励措施也至关重要。各种学科需要建立联系并超越其传统界限，以朝着深入收敛的研究方法发展。在这个项目中，多学科研究团队将探索知识，方法，模型和数据的整合，以创建和评估潜在解决方案。与利益相关者投入的知识共同创造将为新颖的商业模式，参与方法，政策选择以及创新的技术和基于科学的基于科学和科学的进步，前往没有浪费的可持续世界。拟议的研讨会将开发一个框架，以推进NSF大想法“无浪费”的融合研究和奖学金。 将在国际工业生态学会的一部分中建立一个新的部分，以促进增长以应对这些挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。