【Special Session ⭐️ 2022 ECRs in Sustainability Science 18】Taipei-Canada Hubs Collaboration: Nature-based solutions towards sustainability
Dr. Wei Weng - Nature-based solutions as a win-win between climate and water goals: aerial river management for future waterNature-based Solutions (NbS), inspired or supported by nature, aim to address societal challenges in a fast-changing environment via an integrated and sustainable approach. We introduce a novel large-scale NbS designed for reducing water scarcity in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Moisture being evapotranspirated from the land, through transportation in the atmosphere, precipitates in the downwind regions. The pathways of these moisture flows constitute invisible aerial rivers connecting regions across juristic and topographic boundaries. The intangible nature of the aerial rivers calls new instruments to facilitate their integration into land-water management. Here we present an example utilizing moisture back-tracking algorithms to inform decision making. We quantify the role of strategic reforestation in supplying important quantities of moisture into the aerial rivers, sustaining freshwater resources at a downwind city. Our simulations report a runoff gain by 26.93% during the dry season for Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) from strategic reforestation. The increase of the renewable water resource could cover 22 to 59% of the city’s growing demand by 2030. Our study underpins the need for a more holistic view of sustainable land-water management. Effective implementation of such intervention certainly requires compliance with specific societal configurations in different geographies.* * *Mr. Santiago Ramirez Said - Nature-based solutions towards achieving climate and biodiversity goals: Centering solutions around diversity, equity, and inclusionIf Canada is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, a combination of emissions reduction and innovative carbon sequestration approaches are needed. Nature based Solutions (NbS) are promising, as they could help achieve up to 35% of Canada’s 2030 carbon reduction commitment. In addition, NbS can protect biodiversity and provide multiple ecosystem services that improve the well-being of humanity. However, investment in NbS has been largely motivated and guided for its carbon sequestration benefits with its effects on biodiversity and ecosystem health often being a nice “bonus” rather than an equally important goal.Even more pressing, the social benefits of NbS are very rarely considered when funding or implementing a project. Recently, several authors have agreed that one of the main reasons why we keep on failing to reach our climate and biodiversity targets is because we have failed to address Climate Change and biodiversity loss as a social challenge. Only by centering NbS around social diversity, equity and inclusion will we truly be able to unleash the full potential of nature towards planetary and human well-being. This panel will explore some potential avenues in which investment and implementation of NbS can be guided with DEI in mind.講 者 Speakers:Dr. Wei Weng 翁葳 (台灣大學地理環境資源學系助理教授)Mr. Santiago Ramirez Said (Project Manager and Explorer - Future Earth, Sustainability in the Digital Age, National Geographic)主 持 Host: Dr. Wan-Yu Shih 石婉瑜 (銘傳大學都市規劃與防災學系副教授)日 期 Date: 18th November 2022時 間 Time: 19:00 - 20:20 pm (GMT+8)地 點 Venue: Virtual 線上 (Link will be sent after registration 報名後另外通知視訊連結)語 言 Language: English 英文Register|https://pse.is/4fmmf5講者資訊 Speaker's Info:https://www.geog.ntu.edu.tw/index.php/en/people/professors/137-faculty-en/wengwei-enhttps://www.santiagorsaid.com/plant-photography
SDGs領域類別
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國際鏈結
活動類型
研討會/論壇/講座
主辦單位
中研院永續中心,Future Earth Taipei
Taipei Hub
對象
researcher
general public
聯絡窗口
Dolly Chung
電話
02-27872536
dolly0105@gate.sinica.du.tw
活動成果
The Early Career Researchers working group of Future Earth Taipei is looking for wider collaboration—— let ECRs share their research outcomes in relation to sustainability and climate change. Dr. Weng and Dr. Said have both put forward the nature-based solutions in order to achieve win-win conditons for developoments and environmetnal protections.
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指導單位
自然科學及永續研究發展處
主辦單位
國立臺灣師範大學科學教育研究所、自然科學及永續研究推展中心、國立成功大學材料科學及工程學系、台灣物理學會、中國化學會
協辦單位
中央研究院永續科學中心、中原大學物理學系、中華民國數學會、行政院原子能委員會、財團法人國家實驗研究院國家高速網路與計算中心、財團法人國家衛生研究院、高雄市政府教育局、國立中央大學科學教育中心、國立中正大學科學教育中心、國立成功大學科學教育中心、國立自然科學博物館、國立東華大學科學教育中心、國立科學工藝博物館、國立海洋生物博物館、國立海洋科技博物館、國立高雄大學科學教育中心、國立高雄師範大學、國立清華大學跨領域科學教育中心、國立彰化師範大學、國立臺灣大學科學教育發展中心、國立臺灣科學教育館、國家衛生研究院、淡江大學科學教育中心、逢甲大學綠能科技暨生技產業發展研究中心、臺北市政府教育局、臺灣永續棧、臺灣海洋聯盟、臺灣港務股份有限公司