NNA Research: Collaborative Research: Socio-ecological considerations for sustainAble Fuel treatments to Reduce wildfire Risk (SAFRR)

NNA 研究：合作研究：减少野火风险的可持续燃料处理的社会生态考虑因素 (SAFRR)

• 批准号: 2127283
• 负责人: Jennifer Schmidt
• 金额: $ 85.63万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Anchorage Campus
• 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: 2021-12-01 至 2025-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2127283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Research; Collaborative; Socio; ecological

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. The Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by addressing interactions among social systems, the natural environment, and the built environment in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents, Education, Forecasting, Global Impact, and Resilient Infrastructure.The boreal forest, a belt surrounding the Arctic south of the tundra, represents about 30% of the global forest area and provides critical food, shelter, and other needs to local and Indigenous peoples and wildlife, as well as key economic opportunities at the local, regional, and global scale. Wildfires occur naturally in boreal forests, but they have become increasingly dangerous as the climate warms. The area of boreal forest burned each year in Alaska and western Canada has doubled since the 1990s, and the region has experienced some of the most deadly and costly wildfire events in the last decade. Vegetation management methods such as thinning and prescribed burns, also known as fuel treatment, are among the main tools employed by land management agencies, landowners, and communities to reduce risk to residents and infrastructure. Effective fuel treatments require significant planning, implementation costs, and maintenance. Fuel treatments can also be controversial; they may face resistance and affect attitudes and behaviors of nearby residents. In this project, researchers are working with agency personnel managing forest lands and wildfire to create an integrated framework to evaluate fuel treatments; assess their short-term and long-term ecological effects and influence on wildfire behavior; examine how likely they are to be acceptable to residents; and evaluate the ability of alternative fuel treatment designs to achieve social, ecological, and public safety goals. The project is providing insights into how vegetation responds to different treatments, installation and maintenance costs, and acceptability to residents of different types of treatments in boreal forests, and is improving how land managers, landowners, and communities can use fuel treatments to reduce wildfire risk.The project team is working with public land and wildfire practitioners; Indigenous organizations; and communities on the Kenai Peninsula, in Interior Alaska, and Anchorage, and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, to co-produce an integrated assessment of fuel treatments. The team is following a co-produced approach to an integrated social-ecological evaluation framework. The project includes workshops and interviews with land managers and wildfire practitioners to identify preferred strategies, barriers to implementation, and key policies regarding fuel treatments and promote the exchange of knowledge and collaboration. Team members are providing new estimates on rates of fuel recovery across different types of fuel treatments and ecoregions to better understand the short and long-term ecological effects of fuel treatments and maintenance requirements. They are also testing whether vegetation successional trajectories can be directed towards creating longer-lasting treatments with lower maintenance costs, and evaluating the ability of alternative designs to achieve identified social, ecological, economic, and public safety goals. Surveys and interviews are being used to evaluate public acceptance of fuel treatments in Alaska and increase the understanding of how preferences and social acceptability of fuel treatments affect homeowner risk mitigation behavior in subarctic communities.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助（公共法117-2）。对新北极（NNA）的努力是NSF的10个大想法之一。 NNA项目应对北极快速变化的融合科学挑战。需要进行北极研究，以告知国家，较大地区和全球的经济，安全和弹性。 NNA赋予从本地量表到国际规模的新研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强了正规和非正式教育方面的努力，并在适当的情况下整合了知识的共同生产。 This award fulfills part of that aim by addressing interactions among social systems, the natural environment, and the built environment in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents, Education, Forecasting, Global Impact, and Resilient Infrastructure.The boreal forest, a belt surrounding the Arctic south of the tundra, represents about 30% of the global forest area and provides critical food, shelter, and other needs to local and Indigenous peoples and wildlife, as well as地方，地区和全球范围的主要经济机会。野火自然发生在北方森林中，但随着气候的温暖，它们变得越来越危险。自1990年代以来，每年在阿拉斯加和加拿大西部燃烧的北方森林地区都翻了一番，该地区在过去十年中经历了一些最致命，最昂贵的野火事件。植被管理方法，例如稀疏和处方燃烧，也称为燃料处理，是土地管理机构，土地所有者和社区使用的主要工具，以降低居民和基础设施的风险。有效的燃油处理需要大量计划，实施成本和维护。燃料处理也可能引起争议；他们可能会面临抵抗力，并影响附近居民的态度和行为。在这个项目中，研究人员正在与管理林地和野火的代理人员合作，以创建一个综合框架来评估燃料处理；评估他们的短期和长期生态影响以及对野火行为的影响；检查他们被居民接受的可能性；并评估替代燃料处理设计实现社会，生态和公共安全目标的能力。该项目正在提供有关植被如何应对不同治疗方法，安装和维护成本以及对北方森林中不同类型治疗的居民的可接受性的见解，正在改善土地管理者，土地所有者和社区如何使用燃料治疗来减少野火风险。土著组织；以及基奈半岛，阿拉斯加内部，安克雷奇和育空地区怀特霍斯的社区，以共同制作燃料处理的综合评估。该团队正在遵循共同制作的社会生态评估框架的共同制作方法。该项目包括与土地经理和野火从业者进行研讨会和访谈，以确定首选策略，实施障碍以及有关燃料处理的关键政策，并促进知识和协作的交流。团队成员正在为不同类型的燃料处理和生态区域的燃料回收率提供新的估计，以更好地了解燃料处理和维护要求的短期和长期生态影响。他们还在测试植被演变轨迹是否可以指向以较低的维护成本创建更长的治疗方法，并评估替代设计实现已确定的社会，生态，经济和公共安全目标的能力。调查和访谈被用于评估阿拉斯加公众对燃料治疗的接受，并增强对燃料治疗的偏好和社会可接受性如何影响北极社区中房主的风险缓解行为。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得的支持。