Dissertation Research: Bombs Away: New Geographies of Military-to-Wildlife Conversions in the United States

论文研究：炸弹消失：美国军事向野生动物转变的新地理

• 批准号: 0521728
• 负责人: Scott Kirsch
• 金额: $ 0.52万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0521728&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Bombs; Away; New

Title:Bombs Away: New Geographies of Military-to-Wildlife Conversions in the United StatesScott Kirsch, PI David Havlick, Co-PIUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of GeographyProject SummaryThis study focuses on the conversion of U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) lands to national wildlife refuges. Since 1988, the DOD has reclassified twenty-one bases on more than 1.1 million acres to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for management as national wildlife refuges. Closures scheduled for 2005 target as many as 25 percent of the remaining DOD bases, or one hundred more large sites. This research will examine such conversions with two key questions in mind: How have these landscapes been produced, and how do they then function as public lands? This study first approaches these by asking how such sites have been cast politically, scientifically, and narratively to effect their conversion to national wildlife refuges. Second, it considers how these spaces work as new national wildlife refuges, as former military lands, and as examples of ecological militarization, or the view that military production and environmental protection are compatible. The research will apply grounded theory and content analysis to two main sources: documents and reports produced during the base closure and conversion process, and approximately thirty interviews conducted during site visits in Colorado and Indiana, as well as at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. Intellectual Merit:This study brings a new approach to inquiries of environmental politics and management of public lands in the United States, and is unique in its focus on wildlife refuges created from military base closures. By documenting how nature, society, and technology are integrated through these conversions, the project contributes important insights to a phenomenon that is likely to increase in frequency in the future. The researchers have already demonstrated expertise in analyzing complex issues on federal lands, and have academic, conservation-oriented, and popular publications on related topics.Broader Impacts:This project provides key information to federal land managers and environmental regulators, state and county health officials, and refuge visitors. The research brings empirical information to bear upon the processes of conversion, particularly at two case sites, and documents the scope of military-to-wildlife conversions at a national scale. International conservation efforts can also benefit from the lessons of military-to-wildlife conversions, as ecological and social priorities come together in new ways at these sites. Military closures often generate tremendous public interest and concern - this research will add to public understanding of some of the practices that occur at military sites, how these are addressed or remedied, and how these may or may not be compatible with new uses as public wildlife refuges. The project will provide graduate training in geography and findings will be published in articles and book form.

职位：炸弹射击：联合国史塔斯科特·基尔希（Statesscott Kirsch）的新地理野生动物转化地理位置，北卡罗来纳州北卡罗来纳州的副校园，在教堂山，地理位置投资部摘要，侧重于美国国防部（DOD）土地转换为国家野生野生动物饲养。自1988年以来，国防部已将超过110万英亩的21个基地重新分类为美国鱼类和野生动物服务局，以作为国家野生动植物避难所。定于2005年目标的关闭目标占其余DOD基地的25％，即另外一百个大型站点。这项研究将考虑到两个关键问题：如何产生这些景观，然后它们如何充当公共土地？这项研究首先通过询问如何在政治，科学和叙事上扮演这些地点，以实现其转变为国家野生动植物避难所。其次，它考虑了这些空间如何作为新的国家野生动植物避难所，作为以前的军事土地，以及生态军事化的例子，或者认为军事生产和环境保护是兼容的。该研究将对两个主要来源进行基础理论和内容分析，以下：在基础关闭和转换过程中产生的文件和报告，以及在科罗拉多州和印第安纳州的现场访问期间进行的大约三十次访谈，以及美国鱼类和野生动物服务局的总部，华盛顿州华盛顿特区的知识。野生动植物避难所是由军事基地关闭的。通过记录自然，社会和技术如何通过这些转换整合，该项目为将来可能会增加频率增加的现象提供了重要的见解。研究人员已经在分析联邦土地上的复杂问题方面已经证明了专业知识，并在相关主题上拥有学术，面向保护和流行的出版物。这项研究带来了经验信息，涉及conversion依的过程，尤其是在两个案例场所，并记录了国家规模的军事转换范围的范围。国际保护努力也可以从军事到野生动物转换的教训中受益，因为生态和社会优先事项在这些地点以新的方式融合在一起。军事封闭通常会引起极大的公众利益和关注 - 这项研究将增加公众对军事场地上某些做法的理解，如何解决或修复这些做法，以及它们如何与新用途或可能不兼容为公共野生动植物避难所。该项目将提供地理研究生培训，发现将以文章和书籍形式出版。