Collaborative Research: RII Track-2 FEC: Rural Confluence: Communities and Academic Partners Uniting to Drive Discovery and Build Capacity for Climate Resilience

合作研究：RII Track-2 FEC：农村融合：社区和学术合作伙伴联合起来推动发现并建设气候适应能力的能力

• 批准号: 2316367
• 负责人: Nina Lam
• 金额: $ 112.13万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; RII; Track; FEC

Climate change threatens rural communities across the US due to their strong dependence on natural resources and higher poverty rates and lower resilience capacity than urban areas. Thus climate change may disproportionally impact rural communities, but the majority of climate resilience research to date focuses on urban areas. Furthermore, rural residents are underrepresented across all areas of science, which may contribute to skepticism about climate change science and hinder collective action. Therefore, there is a pressing need to advance the science of rural climate resilience and to reduce climate change vulnerabilities in rural communities. This project seeks to meet that important need through the confluence of knowledge, skills, and perspectives from diverse but connected communities, disciplines, and institutions within the Mississippi River basin. The project is significant because it will engage rural communities to create shared frameworks for rural climate resilience, project rural climate change impacts and community resilience scenarios, expand social and economic opportunities for rural communities, and broaden STEM workforce opportunities for people from rural and underrepresented backgrounds. Through the collaborations between faculty and students at Oklahoma State University (OSU), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and Louisiana State University (LSU), along with Hispanic and Native American minority-serving institutions, Western Oklahoma State College and Northern Oklahoma College, this project will substantially advance rural climate resilience research and generate lasting improvements in rural STEM opportunities. These collaborations will lay the foundation for long-term partnerships between the Rural Renewal Initiative (OSU), Rural Prosperity Nebraska (UNL), and the Gulf Scholars Program (LSU). The project aims to touch the lives of thousands of people and translate to economic impacts in rural communities by identifying potential solutions to expected climate change-driven losses. Focusing climate resilience research on rural communities creates the potential to bridge the divide between rural and scientific communities, while creating frameworks and civic engagement strategies that may be applied in other rural communities around the world. This project is centered around epistemological inclusivity, which allows rural perspectives to help guide the investigations. Researchers work with community members to co-create socially robust knowledge, which can enhance trust in science, provide new insights, and build social capital for climate resilience. The specific aims of this project are to: 1) Co-develop with communities a shared conceptual framework for rural climate resilience research and action informed by rural perceptions and priorities; 2) Project rural climate change impacts and community resilience scenarios using improved simulation methods accounting for slow-burn processes such as population decline; 3) Expand social and economic opportunities for disproportionately affected rural communities by helping them identify and pursue locally-relevant climate resilience strategies; and 4) Broaden STEM workforce participation for people from rural and underrepresented backgrounds by developing diverse career pathways from K16 to early-career faculty. The project will create diversified rural STEM pathways using a braided river approach. Rural and underrepresented students, including Hispanic students and Tribal Nation citizens, will benefit from new micro-credentials, STEM curriculum, and undergraduate research opportunities. The project will also support the development of Early-Career Faculty from rural and underrepresented backgrounds. Impacts of this project will be sustained through investments in STEM students and Early-Career Faculty; by creation of open-access publications, curriculum, and models; and by development of community resilience action plans. Approaches will be tested, evaluated, and refined through 2-year cycles of engagement with six focus communities, leading to the creation of a replicable model. Simulations will incorporate state-of-the-art climate projections into a suite of interconnected open-source models to estimate hazard exposure, damages, and long-term community recovery or decline with and without locally-prioritized adaptation measures. Simulation results will be shared with the communities, contributing to the development of local resilience action plans. This project is expected to expand and accelerate community resilience modeling, being among the first to develop simulation methods accounting for the paired, simultaneous slow-burn disturbances of climate change and rural depopulation.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.

与城市地区相比，气候变化的强烈依赖对自然资源和更高的贫困率和更低的韧性能力威胁到美国的农村社区。因此，气候变化可能会对农村社区产生不成比例的影响，但是迄今为止，大多数气候弹性研究都集中在城市地区。此外，在所有科学领域，农村居民的代表性不足，这可能会对气候变化科学和阻碍集体行动的怀疑造成怀疑。因此，迫切需要提高农村气候韧性科学，并减少农村社区的气候变化脆弱性。该项目旨在通过密西西比河流域内各种但相互联系的社区，学科和机构的知识，技能和观点的融合来满足这一重要需求。该项目之所以重要，是因为它将吸引农村社区为农村气候韧性创建共同的框架，项目农村气候变化的影响以及社区韧性情景，扩大农村社区的社会和经济机会，并为农村和人物不足的人们提供STEM劳动力的机会。通过俄克拉荷马州立大学（OSU），内布拉斯加林肯大学（UNL）和路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）的教职员工与学生之间的合作，以及西班牙裔和美洲原住民少数民族服务机构，西俄克拉荷马州西部和北俄克拉荷马州立大学大学，该项目将大大提高农村气候弹性研究，并在农村STEM机遇方面持续改善。这些合作将为农村更新计划（OSU），农村繁荣内布拉斯加州（UNL）和海湾学者计划（LSU）之间的长期合作伙伴关系奠定基础。该项目旨在通过确定预期气候变化驱动的损失的潜在解决方案来触及成千上万人的生活，并转化为农村社区的经济影响。将气候弹性研究集中在农村社区上，可以弥合农村和科学社区之间的鸿沟，同时创建可能在世界其他农村社区中应用的框架和公民参与策略。该项目围绕认识论包容性，这使农村观点可以帮助指导调查。研究人员与社区成员合作，共同创建社会强大的知识，这可以增强对科学的信任，提供新的见解，并为气候弹性建立社会资本。该项目的具体目的是：1）与社区共同开发一个共同的概念框架，用于农村观念和优先事项所启示的农村气候弹性研究和行动； 2）使用改进的仿真方法（例如人口下降）的改进的模拟方法，乡村气候变化的影响和社区弹性情景； 3）通过帮助识别和追求与当地相关的气候弹性策略来扩大受影响不成比例的农村社区的社会和经济机会； 4）通过开发从K16到早期职业教师的各种职业道路，扩大农村和代表性不足背景的人的STEM劳动力参与。该项目将使用编织的河流方法创造多样化的农村茎道。包括西班牙裔学生和部落国家公民在内的农村和代表性不足的学生将受益于新的微观信仰，STEM课程和本科研究机会。该项目还将支持农村和代表性不足背景的早期职业教师的发展。该项目的影响将通过对STEM学生和早期职业教师的投资来维持；通过创建开放式出版物，课程和模型；并通过制定社区弹性行动计划。通过与六个焦点社区的2年互动周期，将对方法进行测试，评估和完善，从而创建了可复制模型。模拟将将最先进的气候预测纳入一套相互联系的开源模型，以估计危害暴露，损害损失和长期社区恢复，或者在有或没有本地优先级的适应性措施的情况下进行估算。模拟结果将与社区共享，从而为当地弹性行动计划的制定做出贡献。预计该项目将扩大和加速社区的弹性建模，这是第一个开发模拟方法的案例之一，该方法涉及对气候变化和农村人口衰退的配对，同时缓慢燃烧的骚乱。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得支持的支持。通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评论标准进行评估。