SRS-RN: Land Use in Regional Sustainability Transitions: Establishing a Network of Research and Practice to Support Governance in Linked Urban and Rural Systems of Massachusetts

SRS-RN：区域可持续转型中的土地利用：建立研究和实践网络以支持马萨诸塞州城乡关联系统的治理

• 批准号: 2115335
• 负责人: Seth Tuler
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 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: 2021-11-01 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115335&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SRS; RN; Land; Use; Regional

The goal of this project is to promote sustainability and resilience in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through integrated land use planning and management. Using land for one purpose, such as energy generation, can have implications for other purposes, such as sustainable food systems and forest ecosystems. Regional landscapes reflect complex political, economic, social, and cultural forces. Over time, choices made by local, state, regional, and national actors create mosaics of land use with a range of costs and benefits. Future land use choices will affect strategies that are essential to achieve regional sustainability and climate resilience, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions; ensuring food security; supporting healthy economies and communities; and maintaining and enhancing natural environments. However, collaboration and coordination of land use planning and management across actors, regions, and scales is challenging. This project will advance sustainability and climate resilience goals in Massachusetts, support undergraduate and graduate education, and serve as a model for integrated land use governance in other regions with connected urban and rural communities. This project will explore the challenges and opportunities of integrated governance by investigating how land use choices mediate trade-offs, synergies, risks, benefits, and equity among sectors, scales, and communities. To achieve this goal, Tuler and colleagues will expand existing partnerships and lay the foundation for a Massachusetts Integrated Landscape and Land Use Research for Sustainability (MILLURS) Network to support integrated land use planning and management. The Network will be comprised of diverse policymakers, civil society stakeholders, and researchers whose work at multiple scales intersects with land use planning in urban and rural communities. The planning grant aims to 1) characterize the connections among governmental and civil society actors whose efforts impact land use choices; 2) identify the structures and knowledge systems that have common goals or are barriers to integration; 3) co-develop models and identify measures for integrated land use governance goals; and 4) propose a structure for future work and identify potential pilot programs, research questions, and educational activities to accomplish in future efforts. This work will advance the science of sustainable urban-rural regional systems through the lens of land use by drawing together lessons emerging from the MILLURS Network and insights from three streams of scholarship and practice: multi-level governance; integrated knowledge systems and tools for sustainability and resilience; and analytic-deliberative processes to support co-learning and governance among diverse stakeholders. This project will advance collaborative governance by initiating collaboration among sectors where communication and coordination for governance and climate resilience is weak.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.

该项目的目的是通过综合土地使用计划和管理来促进马萨诸塞州英联邦的可持续性和韧性。将土地用于一个目的，例如能源产生，可能对其他目的具有影响，例如可持续食品系统和森林生态系统。区域景观反映了复杂的政治，经济，社会和文化力量。随着时间的流逝，地方，州，地区和国家行为者做出的选择创造了土地使用的马赛克，并具有一系列成本和收益。未来的土地使用选择将影响对于实现区域可持续性和气候弹性至关重要的策略，例如减少温室气体排放；确保粮食安全；支持健康的经济和社区；并维护和增强自然环境。但是，跨参与者，地区和规模的土地使用计划和管理的协作和协调具有挑战性。该项目将推进马萨诸塞州的可持续性和气候弹性目标，支持本科和研究生教育，并作为与互联城市和农村社区其他地区的综合土地利用治理的典范。该项目将通过调查土地使用选择如何调解行业，规模和社区之间的权衡，协同，风险，福利和权益来探讨综合治理的挑战和机遇。为了实现这一目标，Tuler及其同事将扩大现有合作伙伴关系，并为马萨诸塞州的综合景观和土地利用研究奠定基础，以支持综合土地使用计划和管理。该网络将由各种政策制定者，民间社会利益相关者和研究人员组成，他们在多个规模的工作与城市和农村社区的土地利用计划相交。计划赠款的目的是1）表征政府和民间社会行为者的联系，他们的努力影响土地使用选择； 2）确定具有共同目标或是集成障碍的结构和知识系统； 3）共同开发模型并确定综合土地利用治理目标的措施； 4）为将来的工作提出一个结构，并确定潜在的试点计划，研究问题和教育活动，以在未来的努力中完成。这项工作将通过从Millurs网络中汲取的课程以及来自三个学术和实践流的见解来融合到可持续的城乡区域系统的科学：多层治理；具有可持续性和弹性的综合知识系统和工具；以及分析性的过程，以支持不同利益相关者之间的共同学习和治理。该项目将通过在治理和气候弹性的沟通和协调协调方面启动协作来提高合作治理。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子的评估来支持的，并具有更广泛的影响。