Restoring Ecosystems and Cities: Scientific and Ethical Issues

恢复生态系统和城市：科学和伦理问题

• 批准号: 9422322
• 负责人: Mark Sagoff
• 金额: $ 7.49万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-15 至 1998-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9422322&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Restoring; Ecosystems; Cities; Scientific; Ethical

This study will examine the interplay of scientific, ethical, and cultural judgments in evaluating the restoration of natural and urban environments. Restoration has become a centerpiece of ecological and urban policy. Yet the concept of restoration is rife with ambiguities and conflicting interpretations. The proposed study, conducted by an interdisciplinary team of two philosophers, an ecologist, a geographer and an urban planner, will examine and compare the issues raised by natural and urban restoration. The investigators will focus on three areas where restoration projects are underway or being planned: the Severn River basin and the Baltimore neighborhoods of Marble Hill and Butcher's Hill. They will examine the diverse and sometimes conflicting visions of restoration that underlie these projects and, more broadly, explore the roles of science, history, and culture in evaluating restoration projects and adjudicating the conflicts they engender. The investigators will write a coordinated series of papers, reporting their analysis of restoration issues and their studies of specific restoration projects. These papers will be submitted to journals of public, environmental, and urban policy, and collected into an anthology.

本研究将探讨科学、伦理和文化判断在评估自然和城市环境恢复方面的相互作用。 恢复已成为生态和城市政策的核心。 然而，修复的概念充满了模糊性和相互冲突的解释。 这项拟议的研究由两名哲学家、一名生态学家、一名地理学家和一名城市规划师组成的跨学科团队进行，将研究和比较自然和城市恢复提出的问题。 调查人员将重点关注正在进行或计划进行修复项目的三个地区：塞文河流域以及巴尔的摩的大理石山和屠夫山社区。 他们将研究这些项目背后的多样化且有时相互冲突的修复愿景，并更广泛地探讨科学、历史和文化在评估修复项目和裁决其产生的冲突中的作用。 研究人员将撰写一系列协调一致的论文，报告他们对修复问题的分析以及对具体修复项目的研究。 这些论文将提交给公共、环境和城市政策期刊，并收集成文集。