Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: An Investigation of the Effect of Public Deliberation on Environmental Preferences

DRMS 博士论文研究：公众审议对环境偏好影响的调查

• 批准号: 0406912
• 负责人: John Gowdy
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-15 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0406912&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Investigation

The dissertation research will test an assumption pervasive in the field of Ecological Economics that people make more altruistically-motivated environmental decisions after participating in structured, group deliberation. The deliberative environmental valuation research is still preliminary and inconclusive due to a lack of definitive research results in this area. If group discussion is shown to affect individuals' environmental values in ways that better reflect the social good, then economic and other social science researchers using the survey method to provide input to policy decisions about the environment and other non-market goods would be well-advised to include discussion as part of the survey process. The project will use a current, critical environmental issue as a case study for the research--whether to allow oil development in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. It will involve the random selection of control and treatment groups in which a broad range of costs and benefits of coastal plain development will be discussed prior to the completion of a survey intended to elicit participants' preferences for oil development or wilderness designation. The work involves travel to Anchorage and re mote bush villages in Alaska to produce a videotape of interviews with governmental, industry and environmental spokespersons, and indigenous Alaska Native groups who will be most directly affected if the coastal plain is opened to oil development. The video will be used to provide background information to the group participants in New York, where the survey work is planned, used for teaching and community outreach, and made available to public television. The research results will be disseminated in professional journals and summarized for elected officials and other interested parties.

本文的研究将检验一个普遍存在于生态经济学领域的假设，即人们在参与有组织的群体审议后，会做出更无私的环境决策。由于在这一领域缺乏明确的研究成果，审议性环境评价研究仍处于初步阶段，尚无定论。如果小组讨论能够以更好地反映社会利益的方式影响个人的环境价值，那么使用调查方法为环境和其他非市场商品的政策决策提供输入的经济和其他社会科学研究人员将被建议将讨论作为调查过程的一部分。该项目将以当前的一个关键环境问题为研究案例——是否允许在阿拉斯加北极国家野生动物保护区的沿海平原进行石油开发。它将涉及随机选择控制组和实验组，在完成一项旨在引起参与者对石油开发或荒野指定的偏好的调查之前，将讨论沿海平原开发的广泛成本和收益。这项工作包括前往阿拉斯加的安克雷奇和偏远的丛林村庄，制作一段采访政府、工业和环境发言人以及阿拉斯加土著群体的录像带，如果沿海平原向石油开发开放，他们将受到最直接的影响。该录象将用于向纽约的小组参与者提供背景资料，调查工作计划在那里进行，用于教学和社区宣传，并向公共电视台提供。研究结果将在专业刊物上散发，并为当选官员和其他有关方面作摘要。