CAREER: Bolstering Food System Resilience to Reduce the Human Impacts of Disasters

职业：增强粮食系统的弹性，减少灾害对人类的影响

• 批准号: 2046316
• 负责人: Lauren Clay
• 金额: $ 52.19万
• 依托单位: D'Youville College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046316&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Bolstering; Food; System; Resilience

The focus of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is to advance the science of food environments and enhance the mitigation and adaptation of social and built environment systems to disasters by bolstering food security and the resilience of food systems. Food is a basic need for human survival and the ability of social systems to meet this need in disaster situations is compromised when our homes, businesses and other structures are damaged and lifelines disrupted. While elements of the various social and built environmental systems that make up the broader food environment as well as food security issues have been studied by various disciplines, a comprehensive, systematic approach has yet to be applied and tested in disaster settings. The overall objectives of this research are to develop a model of the Food Environment in Disasters (FED) along with theory-based tools to support food system resilience. The development of this model and associated tools facilitates a clearer understanding and monitoring of food availability, acceptability, and accessibility to enhance our understanding of the causes, consequences, and health effects of food environment disruption in disasters. This work contributes to NSF’s mission to promote the process of science by developing and validating a new theoretical model and associated metrics on food environment disruption and food security following disasters. The products of this research will advance national health, prosperity, and welfare by supporting improved food security and food system functioning following disasters. The purpose of this CAREER project is to transform our understanding of disruptions to the social and built food environment and food insecurity in disaster impacted communities. The overall objective of this research is to develop a socio-ecological model of the Food Environment in Disasters (FED), associated metrics, and theory-based tools to generate findings that can bolster food system resilience to hazards. This research departs from the status quo of relying on food system theory and metrics developed in non-disaster contexts to developing an understanding of disaster specific processes and outcomes, thereby enhancing the depth and utility of our knowledge of food environments and security in disasters. Developing a FED theoretical model of food accessibility, availability, and acceptability in disasters will support improved food response and bolsters food system resilience (Aim 1). A new Disaster Research Lab training program based on the Taxonomy of Significant Learning will integrate theory development and empirical testing activities (Aim 2). A portfolio of food system environmental audit tools (EAT) for monitoring disaster preparedness, impact, response, and recovery (Aim 3) will promote improved food environment functioning in disasters. This contribution is expected to help address acute food insecurity issues that can double or triple chronic food security problems following disasters. A public engagement strategic plan for the project will guide meaningful engagement with public stakeholders and audiences to maximize the impact of research activities.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.

这个教师早期职业发展（职业）计划奖的重点是提高食品环境的科学，并通过增强粮食安全和食品系统的弹性来改善社会和建筑环境系统的缓解和适应，以灾难。食物是对人类生存的基本需求，当我们的房屋，企业和其他结构受到损害并破坏生命线时，社会系统在灾难情况下满足这种需求的能力受到损害。各种学科已经研究了各种社会和建筑环境系统的元素，这些元素构成了更广泛的食品环境以及粮食安全问题，但尚未在灾难环境中应用和测试一种全面的，系统的方法。这项研究的总体目标是开发灾难中食品环境的模型（FED）以及基于理论的工具来支持食品系统的弹性。该模型和相关工具的开发支持对粮食可用性，可接受性和可访问性的更清晰的了解和监测，以增强我们对灾难中食物环境破坏的原因，后果和健康影响的理解。这项工作有助于NSF通过开发和验证灾难后粮食环境中断和粮食安全的新理论模型和相关指标来促进科学过程。这项研究的产品将通过支持改善灾难后的粮食安全和粮食系统运作来改善国家健康，繁荣和福利。这个职业项目的目的是改变我们对灾难中社会和建筑食品环境和粮食不安全感的理解的理解。这项研究的总体目的是开发一种灾难，相关指标和基于理论的工具的食物环境的社会生态模型，以产生可以增强食品系统抗危险能力的发现。这项研究偏离了依靠食品系统理论和在非陈列者环境中开发的指标的现状，以发展对灾难特定过程和结果的理解，从而增强了我们对灾难中食品环境和安全性知识的深度和实用性。在灾难中开发食品可及性，可用性和可接受性的美好理论模型将支持改善食品反应，并增强食品系统的韧性（AIM 1）。基于重要学习分类法的新灾难研究实验室培训计划将整合理论发展和经验测试活动（AIM 2）。食品系统环境审计工具（EAT）的投资组合，用于监测灾难准备，影响，反应和恢复（AIM 3）将促进灾难中的食物环境的改善。预计这项贡献将有助于解决急性粮食不安全问题，这些问题可能会在灾难后翻一番或三重慢性粮食安全问题。该项目的公共参与战略计划将指导与公共利益相关者和观众的有意义的参与，以最大程度地发挥研究活动的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来审查标准，被认为是通过评估来获得的支持。