Koksilah Connections: community-engaged stream monitoring and groundwater modeling for water sustainability planning

Koksilah Connections：社区参与的河流监测和地下水建模，用于水可持续规划

• 批准号: 561352-2020
• 负责人: Gleeson, Tom
• 金额: $ 7.29万
• 依托单位: University of Victoria
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=719057
• 关键词: Koksilah; Connections; community; engaged; stream

Canada is at an unprecedented crossroads of natural resource management and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Water resources, climate change, reconciliation and environmental monitoring are important topics to all Canadians as evidenced by recent laws regarding UNDRIP, the Paris Agreement and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada. The 'Koksilah Connections' project represents a unique opportunity with high societal impact aimed at addressing water security. Outcomes from this project will simultaneously advance hydrologic science, engage communities, and support tangible governance changes. The impacts are three-fold: 1) improved understanding of current and future summer river flows through community engaged monitoring and modeling; 2) deeper community engagement with water science, Indigenous knowledge mobilization and watershed governance; and 3) development of a collaborative vision of the value of community science in improving water governance and shared management between Indigenous and Settler governments. This project has a number of novel strategies that address these issues by being data-driven, open, transparent and accountable. Our team and community partners are well situated to make breakthroughs in vested interests and colonial practices. Local partners have been involved in the initiation, design and envisioning of this proposal, and will play an active role in the project with in-kind contributions of staff time. In addition, project results will impact local stakeholders and provincial and national implementers.

加拿大正处于自然资源管理和与原住民和解的前所未有的十字路口。水资源、气候变化、和解和环境监测对所有加拿大人来说都是重要的话题，最近有关《联合国土著人民权利宣言》、《巴黎协定》和加拿大影响评估机构的法律就证明了这一点。 “Koksilah Connections”项目代表了一个具有重大社会影响的独特机会，旨在解决水安全问题。该项目的成果将同时推进水文科学、吸引社区参与并支持切实的治理变革。影响有三重：1）通过社区参与的监测和建模提高了对当前和未来夏季河流流量的了解； 2) 社区更深入地参与水科学、本土知识动员和流域治理； 3) 就社区科学在改善原住民政府和定居者政府之间的水治理和共享管理方面的价值制定合作愿景。该项目有许多新颖的策略，通过数据驱动、开放、透明和负责来解决这些问题。我们的团队和社区合作伙伴有能力在既得利益和殖民实践方面取得突破。当地合作伙伴参与了该提案的发起、设计和设想，并将通过员工时间的实物贡献在该项目中发挥积极作用。此外，项目结果将影响当地利益相关者以及省级和国家级实施者。