TY - JOUR
T1 - Citizen-Led Community Innovation for Food Energy Water Nexus Resilience
AU - Hibbett, Emma
AU - Rushforth, Richard R.
AU - Roberts, Elisabeth
AU - Ryan, Sean M.
AU - Pfeiffer, Kyle
AU - Bloom, Nena E.
AU - Ruddell, Benjamin L.
N1 - Funding Information:
FEWSION and FEWSION for Community Resilience (F4R) were funded in 2016 by a grant and supplement from the INFEWS program that was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), ACI-1639529 and 17-047. The opinions expressed are those of the researchers, and not necessarily the funding agencies.
Funding Information:
We thank the community members and NAU students who participated in the F4R process during 2017?2020; your enthusiasm and effort contributed significantly to the successful development of the F4R process. We also thank to Argonne National Laboratory for providing expert staff on joint appointment to NAU to contribute to the process. Funding. FEWSION and FEWSION for Community Resilience (F4R) were funded in 2016 by a grant and supplement from the INFEWS program that was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), ACI-1639529 and 17-047. The opinions expressed are those of the researchers, and not necessarily the funding agencies.
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2020 Hibbett, Rushforth, Roberts, Ryan, Pfeiffer, Bloom and Ruddell.
PY - 2020/9/24
Y1 - 2020/9/24
N2 - Food-energy-water (FEW) resources are necessary for the function of multiple socio-natural systems. Understanding the synergies and trade-offs in the FEW nexus, and how these interconnections impact earth’s systems, is critical to ensure adequate access to these resources in the future; an essential component for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Scanlon et al., 2017). Although, over the last decade, the identification of FEW nexus complexities has increased at a global (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2018; D’Odorico et al., 2018), national (Lant et al., 2019), and city scale (Rushforth and Ruddell, 2018), these findings are yet to be adequately translated into “on the ground” action due a lack of technical and political capacity (Weitz et al., 2017). Specifically, local FEW systems have been overlooked in these analyses (Scanlon et al., 2017; Lant et al., 2019), thus leaving small and medium towns vulnerable due to a lack of data and inadequate FEW system management. Building on 3 years of field-tested FEW nexus research in the Ruddell Lab, we argue that participatory citizen science projects, such as our FEWSION for Community Resilience initiative, can bridge the data-policy gaps that exist within local FEW system management by: (1) providing last mile data on the FEW system, and (2) translating local data into evidence-based solutions at a grassroots level. Thus, we present a broadly applicable framework and call to action for local scale participatory citizen science to solve complex FEW nexus issues at a local, regional, and national scale.
AB - Food-energy-water (FEW) resources are necessary for the function of multiple socio-natural systems. Understanding the synergies and trade-offs in the FEW nexus, and how these interconnections impact earth’s systems, is critical to ensure adequate access to these resources in the future; an essential component for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Scanlon et al., 2017). Although, over the last decade, the identification of FEW nexus complexities has increased at a global (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2018; D’Odorico et al., 2018), national (Lant et al., 2019), and city scale (Rushforth and Ruddell, 2018), these findings are yet to be adequately translated into “on the ground” action due a lack of technical and political capacity (Weitz et al., 2017). Specifically, local FEW systems have been overlooked in these analyses (Scanlon et al., 2017; Lant et al., 2019), thus leaving small and medium towns vulnerable due to a lack of data and inadequate FEW system management. Building on 3 years of field-tested FEW nexus research in the Ruddell Lab, we argue that participatory citizen science projects, such as our FEWSION for Community Resilience initiative, can bridge the data-policy gaps that exist within local FEW system management by: (1) providing last mile data on the FEW system, and (2) translating local data into evidence-based solutions at a grassroots level. Thus, we present a broadly applicable framework and call to action for local scale participatory citizen science to solve complex FEW nexus issues at a local, regional, and national scale.
KW - citizen science
KW - food energy water
KW - nexus
KW - participatory science
KW - resilience
KW - vision
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U2 - 10.3389/fenvs.2020.571614
DO - 10.3389/fenvs.2020.571614
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85092299617
SN - 2296-665X
VL - 8
JO - Frontiers in Environmental Science
JF - Frontiers in Environmental Science
M1 - 571614
ER -