Understanding Values: A Comparative Study of Values in Environmental Policy Making in China, India, Japan, and the United States

理解价值观：中国、印度、日本和美国环境政策制定价值观的比较研究

• 批准号: 0080846
• 负责人: Joanne Bauer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-01 至 2003-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0080846&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Values; Comparative; Study; Environmental

This grant provides support to a collaborative team of researchers in the United States, China, India and Japan, to complete fieldwork, data analysis and comparative analysis, and preliminary reports of results from a multisite, multiyear investigation of values and their role in environmental policy making in localities in each country. By examining values in the context of real world environmental struggles, the project aims to understand the relationships between public values and policy, to determine the circumstances in which local values matter, and to assess the way globalization influences the authority and capacity of local actors to guide and manage environmentally sustainable growth. The project aims to assist in the production of more workable and equitable domestic and international environmental policy solutions. The project uses an innovative methodology for comparative analysis of the role of environmental values in such economically and culturally diverse societies. This assessment of values is one distilled from local empirical fieldwork and integrated into an international comparative study. The Carnegie Council is directing the project in conjunction with prominent collaborating institutions in Asia and the United States: the Beijing Environment and Development Institute (PRC), the National Institute for Environmental Sciences and the Lake Biwa Museum (Japan), the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (India), and the Bureau for Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Fieldwork to generate empirical data at local and national levels is being designed, conducted, and analyzed by leading scholars in each country with input from local policy practitioners. A research protocol for the project has been carefully constructed providing the rigor needed for valid comparative analysis, while at the same time allowing teams the latitude to employ the methodological tools that they deem appropriate to their respective societies. Two types of cases serve as the focus of the fieldwork: industrial pollution and resource use. The fieldwork consists of participant observation, open-ended interviews, focus groups, workshops, policy and expert panels, and analysis of media reports, educational materials and policy documents. With initial matching grants from the United States-Japan Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation, the research teams in China, India, Japan and the United States began conducting preliminary on-site investigations of their cases in August 1998 and to date most cases are well underway. The project creates an important opportunity to support the exchange among Asian and American research communities who have previously had little contact. The comparative dimension provides a map of the role of values in environmental policy across politically, economically and culturally diverse societies. It also enables participating researchers to learn about each other's value discourses and styles of research, which in turn infuses their own studies with new perspectives and creates momentum for further social science initiatives relating to values and sustainable public policy.

这笔赠款为美国、中国、印度和日本的一个合作研究团队提供支持，以完成实地调查、数据分析和比较分析，以及关于价值观及其在每个国家地方环境政策制定中的作用的多点、多年调查结果的初步报告。通过在现实世界环境斗争的背景下审查价值观，该项目旨在了解公共价值观和政策之间的关系，确定地方价值观在什么情况下起作用，并评估全球化如何影响当地行为者指导和管理环境可持续增长的权威和能力。该项目旨在协助制定更可行和更公平的国内和国际环境政策解决方案。该项目采用了一种创新的方法来比较分析环境价值观在这种经济和文化多样化社会中的作用。这种价值评估是从当地的实地调查中提炼出来的，并纳入了一项国际比较研究。卡内基理事会正在与亚洲和美国的著名合作机构共同指导该项目：北京环境与发展研究所(中国)、国家环境科学研究所和琵琶湖博物馆(日本)、发展中社会研究中心(印度)和亚利桑那大学人类学应用研究局。每个国家的主要学者正在设计、进行和分析实地工作，以在地方和国家一级产生经验数据，并由当地政策实践者提供意见。已经仔细制定了该项目的研究方案，为有效的比较分析提供了所需的严谨性，同时允许各小组有自由地采用他们认为适合各自社会的方法工具。实地调查的重点是两类案件：工业污染和资源利用。实地考察工作包括参与者观察、不限成员名额的访谈、焦点小组、讲习班、政策和专家小组以及对媒体报道、教育材料和政策文件的分析。在美日基金会和亨利·卢斯基金会的初步配对赠款下，中国、印度、日本和美国的研究小组于1998年8月开始对他们的案件进行初步现场调查，到目前为止，大多数案件进展顺利。该项目创造了一个重要的机会，以支持亚洲和美国研究界之间的交流，这些社区以前几乎没有联系。比较维度提供了在政治、经济和文化不同的社会中价值观在环境政策中的作用地图。它还使参与的研究人员能够了解彼此的价值论述和研究风格，这反过来又为他们自己的研究注入了新的视角，并为与价值观和可持续公共政策有关的进一步社会科学倡议创造了动力。