SRS RN: Regional Transition to Sustainability Beginning with Food and Water

SRS RN：从食品和水开始实现区域可持续发展

• 批准号: 2115295
• 负责人: Evan Barba
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Georgetown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SRS; RN; Regional; Transition; Sustainability

This Sustainable Regional Systems Research Network Planning Grant project focuses on developing an action-oriented network of academic, industrial, governmental, and non-governmental organizations with the reach and expertise to define and parameterize a transition to a sustainable future and to outfit that network with the tools it needs to measure and manage that transition. Beginning with a focus on food and water subsystems (FWSS)—but eventually expanding to other basic needs—the research agenda involves three major steps: (1) Creating a shared understanding of the FWSS needs and challenges facing the multitude of regional stakeholders, (2) creating a shared vision of a future where these FWSS basic needs are met in a more sustainable and equitable way, and (3) engineering the tools and processes needed to make that future vision a reality. Any improvements to create better, more sustainable food and water systems requires working regionally among different jurisdictions and collaborating across state lines and all along the urban-rural continuum. Any lasting improvements to create more sustainable systems will require agreement on a regional agenda. The Washington, DC, region, given its size and complexity and position within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, provides the ideal case study for a research network to examine the complexities and promise of a sustainable regional systems approach focused on food and water. This project meets the mission of the National Science Foundation by providing actionable research to enhance the national health and prosperity in an equitable fashion.This planning grant project focuses on understanding how multiple stakeholders can achieve equitable regional sustainability and how entities can measure and manage food and water sustainability across complex systems at regional scales from a multiple stakeholder perspective. The project leverages existing partnerships to lay the groundwork for the creation of such an ensemble of adaptive interventions by (1) mapping the problems from multiple stakeholder perspectives, (2) envisioning the solutions and getting buy-in from those stakeholders, and (3) enlarging the network to account for gaps in representation and to ensure the capacity to eventually develop and deploy such an ensemble. The project will make the methodology that emerges from these planning phases extensible to additional basic needs subsystems and is transferable to other regions.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.

该可持续区域系统研究网络规划拨款项目的重点是开发一个由学术、工业、政府和非政府组织组成的以行动为导向的网络，其影响力和专业知识可以定义和参数化向可持续未来的过渡，并为该网络配备研究议程首先关注食品和水子系统 (FWSS)，但最终扩展到其他基本需求，涉及三个主要步骤：(1) 建立对 FWSS 的共同理解。众多区域利益相关者面临的需求和挑战， (2) 创建未来的共同愿景，以更可持续和更公平的方式满足这些 FWSS 基本需求，以及 (3) 设计使未来愿景成为现实所需的工具和流程，以创造更好、更多的成果。可持续的粮食和水系统需要不同管辖区之间的区域合作以及跨州和城乡连续体的合作，鉴于华盛顿特区的区域议程，任何旨在创建更可持续系统的持久改进都需要达成一致。规模、复杂性以及在其中的位置切萨皮克湾流域为研究网络提供了理想的研究案例，以检验以粮食和水为重点的可持续区域系统方法的复杂性和前景。该项目通过提供可行的研究来增强国民健康，从而满足了国家科学基金会的使命。该规划赠款项目侧重于了解多个利益相关者如何实现公平的区域可持续性，以及实体如何从多个利益相关者的角度衡量和管理区域范围内复杂系统的粮食和水可持续性。该项目利用现有的合作伙伴关系。为创建奠定基础通过（1）从多个利益相关者的角度绘制问题，（2）设想解决方案并获得这些利益相关者的支持，以及（3）扩大网络以解决代表性差距并确保该项目将使这些规划阶段产生的方法可扩展到其他基本需求子系统，并可转移到其他地区。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持。使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Breaking Boundaries in Resilience Planning

打破弹性规划的界限

• 发表时间: 2022-10
• 期刊: Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium proceedings
• 作者: Evan Barba;Robin Dillon;Uwe Brandes;Peter P. Marra
• 通讯作者: Peter P. Marra