NNA Research: Collaborative Research: Infrastructure Interdependencies in the Arctic: Reframing the Urban-Rural Interface

NNA 研究：合作研究：北极基础设施的相互依赖性：重塑城乡界面

• 批准号: 2318217
• 负责人: Kasey Faust
• 金额: $ 44.78万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 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: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318217&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Research; Collaborative; Infrastructure; Interdependencies; NNA; Research; Collaborative; Infrastructure; Interdependencies

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. This 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, natural environment, and built environment and is within the Resilient Infrastructure NNA focus area.Critical infrastructure services (CISs), such as water, transportation, energy, communications, public health, and waste, are essential for the well-being and economic livelihood of Alaskan communities. However, providing these services is challenging due to the extreme and changing climate, as well as the remote nature of hub communities and Alaska Native villages. We do not currently understand how CISs are interconnected in Arctic communities; however, we do know that these interconnections are sources of both resilience and vulnerability. Furthermore, the different CIS organizations are complex, are responsible for people’s lives and safety, and have characteristics that we must understand further. This project explores how CISs support each other (e.g., increasing broadband in rural Alaska enables telehealth) and create challenges (e.g., local supply chains often delay infrastructure repairs). Unlike most rural communities in the contiguous US, in Alaska, the air service network is denser than the roadway network. In turn, hub communities—i.e., communities that can be reached by commercial airplanes or ports—are critical for surrounding, remote villages as they provide services including delivery of fuel and workforce support. This project considers the interface between urban hub communities and neighboring rural Alaska Native villages, exploring how challenges in hub towns cascade to villages. In collaboration with three hub communities in Alaska, the interdisciplinary research team integrates systems engineering, organizational sciences, civil engineering, and public health to improve the provision of CISs, not only benefiting the towns themselves, but also Alaska Native villages.This project aims to architect infrastructure interdependencies within hub communities and at the interfaces between urban hubs and rural Alaska Native villages. In doing so, this work paves the way for future research by providing new empirical data and creating a set of management approaches that can help communities immediately improve their CISs. Leveraging semi-structured interviews with CIS stakeholders, operational data collection, and collaborative stakeholder workshops, Phase 1 of the project identifies and maps CIS interdependencies in hub towns. This phase uses fuzzy cognitive mapping and causal loop diagrams to bring together stakeholders’ expertise and perspectives. Phase 2 analyzes how the provision of CISs in hub towns cascade to neighboring villages by assessing end-users’ perceptions towards their infrastructure services and how they use services in hub towns. End-users’ perspectives are captured through semi-structured interviews and transportation demand surveys. As CIS organizations in Arctic communities are complex, and are responsible for people’s lives and safety, they are considered High Reliability Organizations (HROs); thus, this project uses HRO Theory to provide a solid bridge between social and technical issues. Phase 3 evaluates the organizations involved and provides stakeholders with a concrete assessment of where they stand and how they can become more robust organizations, and thus a more resilient system of organizations.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.

NSF的10个大创意之一是导航新北极（NNA）。 NNA项目应对北极快速变化的融合科学挑战。需要进行这项北极研究，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。该奖项通过解决社会系统，自然环境和建筑环境之间的相互作用，并在弹性基础设施NNA焦点领域内实现了一部分目标。关键的基础设施服务（CISS），例如水，运输，能源，能源，通信，公共卫生和废物，对于阿拉斯加市社区的福祉和经济生活至关重要。但是，由于气候的极端和变化，提供这些服务以及枢纽社区和阿拉斯加本地村庄的偏僻性质受到挑战。我们目前不了解CISS如何在北极社区互连；但是，我们确实知道这些互连是弹性和脆弱性的来源。此外，不同的独联体组织很复杂，负责人们的生活和安全，并且具有我们必须进一步理解的特征。该项目探讨了CISS如何相互支持（例如，在Alaska Rough Alaska中增加宽带可以实现远程医疗）并带来挑战（例如，本地供应链经常延迟基础设施维修）。与阿拉斯加连续的大多数农村社区不同，航空服务网络比道路网络是应有的。反过来，枢纽社区 - 即，商业飞机或港口可以到达的社区，对于周围偏远的村庄提供服务至关重要，因为它们提供服务，包括提供燃料和劳动力支持。该项目考虑了城市枢纽社区与邻近的阿拉斯加乡村村庄之间的界面，探索了枢纽城镇级联群体的挑战。与阿拉斯加的三个枢纽社区合作，跨学科研究团队融合了系统工程，组织科学，土木工程和公共卫生，以改善CISS的提供，不仅使城镇本身受益，而且使阿拉斯加本地村庄受益。该项目旨在旨在在集线器建筑群体和群体之间的建筑基础设施互动群体和互联网之间的群体和互动群体之间的群体群体和互动群体。在这样做的过程中，这项工作通过提供新的经验数据并创建一套可以帮助社区立即改善其CISS的管理方法来为未来的研究铺平道路。利用与独联体利益相关者，运营数据收集和协作利益相关者研讨会的半结构化访谈，该项目的第一阶段确定和地图中心的相互依存关系。该阶段使用模糊的认知映射和因果循环图来汇总利益相关者的专业知识和观点。第2阶段分析了如何通过评估最终用户对基础设施服务的看法以及如何在Hub Towns使用服务的方式来分析枢纽城镇级联到邻近村庄的提供。最终用户的观点是通过半结构化访谈和运输需求调查来捕获的。由于北极社区的独联体组织很复杂，并且负责人们的生活和安全，因此他们被认为是高可靠性组织（HROS）；因此，该项目使用HRO理论在社会和技术问题之间提供坚实的桥梁。第三阶段评估所涉及的组织，并为利益相关者提供对他们所在的位置以及如何成为更强大的组织的具体评估，从而更依赖组织的组织。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查审查标准来通过评估来诚实地诚实地支持。