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 acequias）体现了综合的社会环境系统——它们既是实体地表水输送结构，又是社区水管理组织，因为 acequias 依赖于河流和溪流的引水，因此非常容易受到影响。在周期性缺水的地区，acequias 的恢复能力历来取决于维持地表水和地下水之间、灌溉景观和流域之间以及社区之间的固有连通性。不同程度参与水管理的新威胁挑战了 acequias 的恢复能力，其中包括气候变化导致的融雪径流减少、住宅区向以前的农田和荒地的扩张、旅游业和娱乐发展、青年参与农业的减少、森林健康受到干旱和野火的影响，以及社区对水管理的参与减少，这些挑战需要采取新的适应措施，以保持阿塞基亚灌溉农田及其相关社区和流域的恢复能力，该项目是一个以二十年合作为基础的项目。当地利益相关者和大学研究人员在社区参与的最高水平上进行创新研究合作，研究方向是社区主导的问题定义、现有系统驱动因素的识别和复原力场景开发。该项目将支持一组新的社区。适应21世纪；这些可以改变水和土地管理以及支持健康和富有成效的社区和景观的法律和政治网络，该项目产生的新知识将通过正式和非正式渠道传播，包括科学、推广。 ，以及外展出版物，大学内容该项目将采用创新的融合研究方法，将生物物理和社会科学融入生态水文学和社会（EHS）科学中。研究过程包括：1）数据收集，以描述生态水文过程和社会结构，2。 ) 元胞自动机导出的综合指数，用于对水的利用和可用性的空间整合进行建模，3) 基于气候、管理和社会投入的未来情景，4) 向社区成员、决策者和其他研究人员提供信息的外展活动，以及5) 社区反馈，以完善研究并加速影响，将通过超越潜在的独立的社会水文学和水文社会系统方法来制定完全综合的 EHS 方法，以实现社会环境系统恢复力的进步。新墨西哥州北部三个不同的用水者滋养的流域（WUN 流域）社会环境系统在干湿​​基线条件范围内的社区和生态系统将从该项目在新墨西哥州北部传统农业系统中进行的经验教训中汲取经验教训。为社会变化和气候变化的适应指南提供重要的理解，以对全球其他类似的 WUN 流域社会环境系统的恢复力产生影响。该项目由综合社会环境系统动态计划和刺激竞争研究既定计划共同资助(EPSCoR)。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。