Planned Behavior, Environmental Values and Domestic Water Conservation. A Longitudinal Case Study of the California-Nevada Truckee River Watershed

有计划的行为、环境价值和生活用水保护。

• 批准号: 9727797
• 负责人: Craig Trumbo
• 金额: $ 20.41万
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-15 至 1998-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9727797&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planned; Behavior; Environmental; Values; Domestic

This study uses mail survey methods to examine attitudes and behaviors toward water conservation throughout the Truckee River Watershed in California and Nevada. The survey area extends from California's Lake Tahoe Basin to Fallon and Pyramid Lake in Nevada, and includes the rapidly growing metropolitan area of Reno-Sparks, Nevada. The project will describe the range of water conservation attitudes throughout the Truckee River Watershed to determine what natural (e.g., geographical) and attitudinal communities exist, and to discover cross-jurisdictional opportunities for consensus building on water issues. It will also observe water conservation attitudes and behaviors across time to determine how these might be shifting as communities grow and diversify. In terms of general usefulness, this project will add contextually to existing work on conservation in two ways. First, relatively little conservation research has been applied to home water conservation (as opposed to conservation of energy, for example). And second, previous work examining water conservation has been executed within political boundaries (especially cities), versus more environmentally meaningful boundaries such as watersheds. Understanding how the diverse set of interests within the watershed can cooperate to share a vital, highly variable, and ultimately limited resource will offer valuable lessons. Policy efforts aimed at building such cooperation will be aided by a scientific understanding of the range of orientations toward water conservation throughout the watershed. Further, the rapid growth and diversification of the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area presents an outstanding opportunity to not only understand the dynamics of water conservation during such growth but also to consider and recommend information strategies and policy alternatives designed to promote conservation, both in Nevada and elsewhere.

本研究采用邮件调查方法，以探讨整个特拉基河流域在加州和内华达州的水资源保护的态度和行为。 调查区域从加州的太浩湖盆地延伸到内华达州的法伦湖和金字塔湖，并包括内华达州里诺-斯帕克斯快速增长的大都市区。 该项目将描述整个特拉基河流域的水资源保护态度的范围，以确定什么是自然的（例如，在这方面，我们的任务是，在现有的不同地理区域和不同态度的社区中，寻找跨司法管辖区的机会，就水资源问题建立共识。 它还将观察水资源保护的态度和行为随着时间的推移，以确定这些可能是如何随着社区的增长和多样化而变化的。 就一般用途而言，该项目将以两种方式增加现有的保护工作。 首先，相对较少的保护研究已被应用到家庭节水（相对于节能，例如）。 其次，以前的研究水资源保护的工作是在政治边界（特别是城市）内执行的，而不是更有环境意义的边界，如流域。 了解流域内的各种利益集团如何合作，以分享一个重要的，高度可变的，最终有限的资源将提供宝贵的经验教训。 旨在建立这种合作的政策努力将有助于对整个流域水资源保护方向的科学理解。 此外，里诺-斯帕克斯大都市区的快速增长和多样化提供了一个绝佳的机会，不仅可以了解这种增长过程中的水资源保护动态，还可以考虑并推荐旨在促进保护的信息战略和政策选择，无论是在内华达州还是其他地方。