Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Food, Water, Energy (CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus

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项目编号	1850186
	Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Food, Water, Energy (CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus
	Thomas Spiegelhalter (Principal Investigator)
主持机构	Florida International University
项目开始年	2018
	2018-12-15
项目结束日期	2021-11-30
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Continuing grant
项目经费	127418(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	Many cities across the globe are facing difficult challenges managing their food, water and energy systems. The challenges stem from the fact that the issues of food, water and energy are often tightly connected with each other, not only locally but also globally. This is known as the Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus. An effective solution to a local water problem may cause new local problems with food or energy, or cause new water problems at the global level. On a local scale, it is difficult to anticipate whether solutions to one issue in the nexus are sustainable across food, water and energy systems, both at the local and the global scale. Innovative solutions that encompass the nexus are particularly important to enable cities to better manage their food, water and energy systems and understand the benefits and tradeoffs for different solutions. This award supports U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 29-country initiative through the joint Belmont Forum- Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe. The Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a multilateral initiative designed to support research projects that bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. The call seeks to develop more resilient, applied urban solutions to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders. The rapid urbanization of the world's population underscores the importance of this focus. International partners were invited to develop solutions for this challenge. The funds requested will be used to support U.S. participants to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., civil society, NGOs, and industry). Participants from other countries are funded through their national funding organizations. The process of urban development not only typically changes the landscape but also affects precipitation systems, water cycles, the productivity of the ecosystem, energy balance and local climates. This project aims to provide information on how the food, water and energy systems are changed under different aspects of urbanization. Through the use of Urban Living Labs, data will be obtained from participating cities working on various urban planning issues. From this data, the project will develop an integrated decision support system that uses a geographic information system to help in urban planning using different scenarios . 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.
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/73631
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Thomas Spiegelhalter .Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Food, Water, Energy (CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus.2018.