DISES: Water and Community Resilience Through Spatial Integration of Ecohydrological Processes and Traditional Sociocultural Knowledge

DISES：通过生态水文过程和传统社会文化知识的空间整合实现水和社区的恢复力

• 批准号: 2308358
• 负责人: Alexander Fernald
• 金额: $ 160万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2308358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Water; Community; Resilience; Through

Traditional irrigation systems of northern New Mexico, also known as acequias, embody integrated socio-environmental systems—they are at once physical surface water delivery structures and community water management organizations. Because acequias rely on diversions from rivers and streams, they are acutely vulnerable to variable surface water availability. In region subject to periodic water scarcity, acequias’ resilience has historically hinged on maintaining inherent connectivities—between surface water and groundwater, between irrigated landscapes and contributing watersheds, and among community members¬ with different levels of involvement in water management. New seemingly existential threats challenge acequias’ resilience. These include reduced snowmelt runoff due to climate change, residential expansion into previously farmed and wild lands, tourism and recreation development, reduced youth involvement in agriculture, forest health impacted by drought and wildfire, and reduced community involvement in water management. These challenges will require new adaptations to maintain resilience of acequia-irrigated farmlands, their associated communities, and contributing watersheds. Building on two decades of partnership, this project is an innovative research collaboration between local stakeholders and university researchers at the highest level of community engagement where the direction of the study is community-led in problem definition, identification of existing system drivers, and resilience scenario development. This project will support a new set of community adaptations for the 21st century; these could transform water and land management as well as the legal and political webs of support for healthy and productive communities and landscapes. New knowledge generated in this project will be disseminated through formal and informal channels, including scientific, extension, and outreach publications, content in university coursework, and community meetings and workshops. The project will employ an innovative convergence research approach that integrates biophysical and social sciences into Ecohydrologic and Social (EHS) science. The research process includes: 1) data collection to characterize ecohydrological processes and social fabric, 2) cellular automata-derived integrated indices to model spatial integrations of water use and availability, 3) future scenarios based on climate, management, and social inputs, 4) outreach to inform community members, decision makers, and other researchers, and 5) community feedback to refine the research and accelerate the impact. Advances in socioenvironmental system resilience will be achieved by going beyond potentially separate sociohydrology and hydrosocial systems methods to craft a fully integrated EHS approach. This research focuses on community prioritized resilience of water, agriculture, communities, and ecosystems in three distinct Water-User-Nourished Watershed (WUN Watershed) socio-environmental systems of northern New Mexico over range of wet to dry baseline conditions. Lessons learned from this project conducted in traditional agriculture systems of northern New Mexico will provide critical understanding to guide adaptation to social changes and climate change to have an impact on resilience of other similar WUN Watershed socioenvironmental systems worldwide.This project is jointly funded by the Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

新墨西哥州北部的传统灌溉系统，也称为浮游，具有体现的社会环境系统 - 它们立即是物理地表水交付结构和社区水管理组织。由于Acequias依赖于河流和溪流的变化，因此它们非常容易受到可变的地表水利用率的影响。在遭受定期水稀缺性的地区，Acequias的韧性从历史上一直取决于保持继承的连接性，即在地表水和地下水之间，灌溉景观和贡献流域之间以及在供水管理中涉及不同水平的社区成员之间。新看似现有的威胁挑战了Acequias的韧性。其中包括由于气候变化而减少了融雪的径流，居民扩展到先前的耕种和野生土地，旅游业和娱乐发展，减少了青年参与，受到森林健康的影响，受到干旱和野火的影响以及社区参与水管理。这些挑战将需要新的改编，以维持Acequia灌溉的农田，其相关社区的韧性，并贡献分水岭。在二十年的合作伙伴关系的基础上，该项目是当地利益相关者和大学研究人员之间在社区最高级别的研究人员之间进行创新的研究合作，该研究的方向在问题定义，对现有系统驱动因素的识别以及弹性方案开发中以社区为主导。该项目将支持21世纪的一系列社区改编；这些可以改变水和土地管理，以及对健康和产品社区和景观的支持的法律和政治网络。该项目中产生的新知识将通过正式和非正式渠道传播，包括科学，扩展和外展出版物，大学课程中的内容以及社区会议和研讨会。该项目将采用一种创新的融合研究方法，将生物物理和社会科学纳入生态水文和社会（EHS）科学。研究过程包括：1）数据收集以表征生态过程和社会结构，2）蜂窝自动衍生的综合指标，以建模用水和可用性的空间整合，3）基于气候，管理和社会投入的未来场景，4）外展活动以向社区成员，决策者和其他研究人员以及5）对社区反馈进行促进研究和加快研究的影响。通过超越潜在的单独的社会水文和水疗系统方法来制作完全集成的EHS方法，可以实现社会环境系统的弹性的进步。这项研究的重点是在三个不同的水 - 用户建筑的分水岭（Wun流域）社会环境系统中的水，农业，社区和生态系统的优先恢复能力，而新墨西哥州北部的社会环境系统则在潮湿至干基线条件的范围内。 Lessons learned from this project conducted in traditional agriculture systems of north New Mexico will provide critical understanding to guide adaptation to social changes and climate change to have an impact on resilience of other similar WUN Watershed socioenvironmental systems worldwide.This project is jointly funded by the Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。