Sustainability research and practices in enforced residential institutions: collaborations of ecologists and prisoners
Sustainability research and practices in enforced residential institutions: collaborations of ecologists and prisoners
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强制居住机构的可持续性研究和实践：生态学家和囚犯的合作
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2009
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N. Nadkarni
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C. Ulrich;N. Nadkarni
强制性的机构环境，如监狱，为提高认识、开展研究、实施和评估可持续生活的做法提供了环境。由于健康、娱乐、军事或法律的原因（例如，辅助生活中心、夏令营、陆军基地、监狱）收容可能缺乏科学训练但有时间和需要智力刺激的人，这些人可以通过监督研究来填补。这些机构拥有稳定的人口，结构化的社会组织，以及可衡量的材料和能源投入和产出，以在影响区域资源的任务中实施可持续做法，如地下水质量和垃圾填埋场的使用。我们报告的三个例子，在惩教中心的访问学术生态学研究人员，可持续发展实践者，惩教管理人员和囚犯之间的伙伴关系：（1）研究如何可持续地“农场”苔藓园艺贸易，以减少野生苔藓种群的收获压力;（2）蚯蚓养殖和嗜热堆肥系统，以减少厨房垃圾;及（3）每月在监狱举办一系列研讨会。超过26个月：（1）参与者开发了优化苔藓生长的方法;（2）垃圾填埋场的废物和用于废水处理的颗粒流量减少了50%，低于许可限制的50%;（3）由此产生的堆肥（约100%）。5，000公斤）的机构蔬菜园施肥;（4）改善水质，使监狱能够返还用于改善监狱水质的拨款。这些讲座鼓励研究人员、囚犯和警卫之间的知识交流。研究人员为他们的工作带来了新的视角和更广泛的影响。这可以作为其他惩教设施和其他强制居住机构的一个模式。
Enforced institutional settings such as penitentiaries provide environments to raise awareness, carry out research, and implement and assess practices for sustainable living. Institutions where residence is enforced due to health, recreational, military, or legal reasons (e.g., assisted living centers, summer camps, army bases, prisons) house people who may lack scientific training but have time and need for intellectual stimulation that can be filled by supervised research. These institutions have stable populations, structured social organization, and measurable inputs and outputs of materials and energy to carry out sustainable practices in tasks that affect regional resources such as groundwater quality and landfill use. We report on three examples at a corrections center resulting from partnerships among visiting academic ecology researchers, sustainability practitioners, corrections administrators, and prisoners: (1) research on how to sustainably “farm” moss for the horticulture trade to reduce harvesting pressure on wild moss populations; (2) a vermiculture and thermophilic composting system to reduce the kitchen waste; and (3) a monthly seminar series at the prison. Over 26 months: (1) participants developed methods to optimize moss growth; (2) landfill-bound waste and particulate flow rate destined for wastewater treatment decreased by 50%, to less than 50% of permit limits; (3) resulting compost (ca. 5000 kg) fertilized institutional vegetable gardens; (4) water quality improved so that the prison could return funds allocated to upgrade the prison’s water quality. The lectures encouraged intellectual exchange among researchers, convicts, and guards. Researchers derived new perspectives and broader impacts for their work. This can be a model for other correctional facilities and other enforced residential institutions (ERIs).