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| Infrastructure Systems, Services, and Climate Change: Integrated Impacts and Response Strategies for the Boston Metropolitan Area | |
| 项目编号 | R827450 |
| Paul Kirshen | |
| 项目主持机构 | University of California - Los Angeles,University of Oregon |
| 开始日期 | 1999-09-01 |
| 结束日期 | 2003-09-01 |
| 英文摘要 | Project Research Results Final Report 2003 2002 Progress Report 2001 Progress Report 2000 Progress Report 47 publications for this project 3 journal articles for this project Related Information Research Grants P3: Student Design Competition Research Fellowships Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grantee Research Project Results Search Infrastructure Systems, Services, and Climate Change: Integrated Impacts and Response Strategies for the Boston Metropolitan Area EPA Grant Number: R827450 Title: Infrastructure Systems, Services, and Climate Change: Integrated Impacts and Response Strategies for the Boston Metropolitan Area Investigators: Kirshen, Paul , Ruth, Matthias Current Investigators: Kirshen, Paul , Anderson, William , Chapra, Steve , Chudyk, Wayne , Edgers, Lewis , Gute, David , Lakshmanan, T. R. , Ruth, Matthias , Sanayei, Masoud , Vogel, Richard Institution:Tufts University , Boston University Current Institution:Tufts University , Boston University , University of Maryland EPA Project Officer: Packard, Benjamin H Project Period: September 14, 1999 through September 13, 2003 (Extended to March 12, 2004) Project Amount: $899,985 RFA: Integrated Assessment of the Consequences of Climate Change (1999)RFA Text | Recipients Lists Research Category:Ecological Indicators/Assessment/Restoration ,Global Climate Change ,Water ,Ecosystems ,Climate Change Description: The services provided by infrastructure systems include flood control, watersupply, drainage, waste water management, solid and hazardous waste management,energy, transportation, providing constructed facilities for residential,commercial, and industrial activities, communication, and recreation. Theinfrastructure industry is one of the largest contributors to US Gross DomesticProduct. The real value of infrastructure, however, is that the socioeconomicand environmental services it provides are essential; without them, the USeconomy could not function and many human and environmental systems wouldcollapse. This is particularly the case in metropolitan areas. Even though infrastructure systems and services (ISS) are designed accordingto socioeconomic and environmental conditions that are very sensitive to climate(for examples; energy and water demands, wind and water loads) and haveinterrelated impacts upon each other, there have been no major integratedassessments of the impacts of climate change on metropolitan ISS in the US.Several researchers have shown that the possible economic damages to ISS becauseof climate change are the same as or larger than damages to agriculture.Infrastructure systems last considerably longer than decades (some a century ormore) and provide the footprint and direction for future ISS and related futuresocioeconomic activities and environmental quality. Hence it is important thatdecision-makers understand the short- and long-term consequences of climatechange on ISS. This includes both local and regional decision-makers becausethey make most infrastructure-related decisions and state and nationaldecision-makers because they provide policy guidance. The objectives of the proposed research include: Documentation and analysis of the state of present infrastructure systemsand the socioeconomic and environmental services provided by them in the BostonMetropolitan Area (BMA, includes the major cities of Boston and Cambridge and 99other municipalities within approximately 20 miles of Boston - land use variesfrom urban to farms and open space) using various indicators to indicate theircontribution to the quality of life in the region. Determination of the integrated direct and indirect impacts of climatechange, socioeconomic, and technology scenarios on the future evolution of ISSand the regional quality of life over time. Identification and importance of policies and short- and long-term researchneeds for the provision of infrastructure services that will meet stakeholderneeds over time given the uncertainties of climate and other changes. Collaboration with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), our localpartner, to ensure that stakeholders are involved, their concerns are addressed,and the project results are effectively communicated to them and the public atlarge and to begin to engage stakeholders in the process of preparing forpotential climate change.The approach includes:Work with stakeholders and experts to understand the multiple driving forces behind ISS in the BMA and the vertical and horizontal interrelationships of ISS demands and impacts.Build a dynamic analytical modeling tool that incorporates this understanding and uses indicators to: (1) organize data; (2) model socioeconomic and environmental dynamics and interrelated impacts of ISS; and (3) aid in communication of project results.Work with stakeholders to execute the model with climate change, socioeconomic, and technology scenarios to achieve the research objectives.Communicate with the help of the MAPC to stakeholders and the general public throughout the project.The research will improve the risk management of the impacts on infrastructure from future uncertain climate, socioeconomic, environmental, and technology changes by showing possible impacts and driving forces behind those impacts and their sensitivities, working with stakeholders to develop short- and long-term resilient policies and programs to mitigate and adapt to impacts, and empowering stakeholders and the general public with the results. |
| 英文关键词 | global warming;Massachusetts;adaptation;suburbs;humid;developed world. |
| 学科分类 | 09 - 环境科学;08 - 地球科学 |
| 资助机构 | US-EPA |
| 项目经费 | 899985 |
| 国家 | US |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 文献类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/73005 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Paul Kirshen.Infrastructure Systems, Services, and Climate Change: Integrated Impacts and Response Strategies for the Boston Metropolitan Area.1999. |
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