Collaborative Proposal: Constituting Nature and Society in the Global Environment

合作提案：在全球环境中构建自然与社会

• 批准号: 0328350
• 负责人: Sheila Jasanoff
• 金额: $ 26.96万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0328350&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; Constituting; Nature; Society

The emergence of the global environment as a site for scientific and social action is one of the transformative events marking the turn of the 21st century. In scientific terms, the global framing has altered the scales at which, and the methods by which, we seek to understand natural and social influences on the environment, as well as interactions between them. In social and political terms, environmental globalization has given rise to new concepts, institutions, actor coalitions, political strategies, and norms that transcend or compete with the politics of nation-states. Using theories in science and technology studies, about globalization and environmental governance and about co-production, this project will explore the implications of these coupled changes for emerging structures of global governance, focusing specifically on new institutional arrangements around global environmental science, politics, and policy. Globalization is seen for purposes of this project as dynamic, interacting with processes of localization and requiring diverse accommodations between global and local institutions, norms, practices, and technologies. To understand environmental globalization, it is therefore necessary to examine processes operating below the global levels. Co-production is the joint production of natural and social order, or knowledge and forms of life. This framework is particularly useful for studying emergent phenomena such as environmental globalism, and for understanding persistent differences in societal approaches to studying and managing the natural world. The study design is comparative, across nation-states (U.S., Germany, India) and across non-state sectors (science, corporations, civil society). In each research site, the project will focus on three anchoring concepts that are both policy-relevant and theoretically interesting: sustainability, vulnerability, precaution. The objective will be to uncover how natural knowledge and social response are being co-produced through attempts to define and implement these concepts. Methodologically, the project will incorporate qualitative approaches (including case and country studies) from science studies, law, anthropology, history of science, and comparative politics. The project will generate new knowledge, research methods, and institutional insights relevant to the organization of global environmental science and public policy. Research results will illuminate means of enhancing relations among the institutions of global environmental governance and a global citizenry. Outputs will include recommendations for: (1) the design of global environmental research programs, especially approaches to integrating social and natural science research (e.g., modeling, collaborative teams, interdisciplinary training programs); (2) proposals to strengthen linkages between science and policy, especially evaluations of assessment methods (e.g., intergovernmental, multi-stakeholder, consensus conferences) and their varying receptivity across political cultures; and (3) identification of governance arrangements that appropriately recognize and take into account cross-national variation in global environmental science and policy. The project will train graduate and postdoctoral researchers and will strengthen collaborative networks in environmental research and science and technology studies between the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

全球环境成为科学和社会行动的场所，这是标志着21世纪之交的变革性事件之一。用科学的话说，全球框架已经改变了我们寻求了解自然和社会对环境的影响以及它们之间的相互作用的规模和方法。在社会和政治方面，环境全球化产生了超越民族国家政治或与民族国家政治竞争的新概念、新制度、新行为者联盟、新政治战略和新规范。利用科学技术研究、全球化和环境治理以及联合生产方面的理论，该项目将探索这些相互关联的变化对新兴的全球治理结构的影响，特别是围绕全球环境科学、政治和政策的新制度安排。就本项目而言，全球化被视为动态的，与本地化进程相互作用，需要全球和当地机构、规范、实践和技术之间的不同适应。因此，为了理解环境全球化，有必要审查在全球范围内运作的进程。联合生产是自然和社会秩序或知识和生命形式的联合生产。这一框架对于研究环境全球主义等新出现的现象，以及理解研究和管理自然世界的社会方法的持续差异特别有用。这项研究的设计是比较的，跨民族国家(美国、德国、印度)和非国有部门(科学、企业、公民社会)。在每个研究站点，该项目将重点关注三个既与政策相关又理论上有趣的锚定概念：可持续性、脆弱性和预防。其目标将是揭示自然知识和社会反应是如何通过尝试定义和实施这些概念而共同产生的。在方法上，该项目将纳入来自科学研究、法律、人类学、科学史和比较政治学的定性方法(包括案例和国别研究)。该项目将产生与全球环境科学和公共政策组织相关的新知识、研究方法和机构见解。研究成果将阐明如何加强全球环境治理机构和全球公民之间的关系。产出将包括以下建议：(1)全球环境研究计划的设计，特别是整合社会科学和自然科学研究的方法(例如，建模、协作团队、跨学科培训计划)；(2)加强科学与政策之间联系的建议，特别是评估方法(例如，政府间、多方利益攸关方、共识会议)及其在不同政治文化中的不同接受度；(3)确定适当认识并考虑到全球环境科学和政策的跨国差异的治理安排。该项目将培训研究生和博士后研究人员，并将加强哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校拉福莱特公共事务学院在环境研究和科学技术研究方面的合作网络。