Ties That Bind: Environment and Technology in History: Workshop: June 2006; University of VA

紧密相连的纽带：历史上的环境与技术：研讨会：2006 年 6 月；

• 批准号: 0551418
• 负责人: Stephen Cutcliffe
• 金额: $ 2.2万
• 依托单位: Lehigh University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-15 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0551418&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ties; Bind; Environment; Technology; History

PROJECT SUMMARYPROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe PI proposes to organize and host a workshop, "Ties that Bind: Environment andTechnology in History," in June 2006. The proposed workshop emerges from a projectinitiated by Envirotech, a group composed of environmental historians andhistorians of technology, to provide new concepts and approaches in our understanding ofthe relationship between technology and nature.INTELLECTUAL MERITThe intent is to reflect a more nuanced understanding of technology and the environment, onethat views them not as dichotomized, but rather as overlapping and interactive.Representing Envirotech, the PI, Professor Stephen Cutcliffe of Lehigh University and Dr. Martin Reuss, Senior Historian with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineeers (retiring next April), have signed a contract with the University of Virginia for a collection of essays with the same title as the workshop that will help delineate the intellectual parameters of this newly emerging field. The workshop will bring together the contributors to this volume, along with selected other provocative scholars, in a setting that will promote the cross-fertilization of ideas, thereby improving the focus of the volume. More specifically this interdisciplinary, workshop will:1. Provide an opportunity for early criticism of drafts and conceptual approaches.2. Allow for input from non-contributors to the volume.3. Stimulate further thought on the subject and encourage the ongoing exchange of ideasamong contributors.BROADER IMPACTSBroader impacts from the project will involve classroom use in both history of technologyand environmental history courses. It should also be of use in American Studies,geography, and archaeology classes. Thus, a primary audience is the college undergraduateand graduate student. However, other audiences are equally important. Academic historiansof technology and of the environment should find this book stimulating. Indeed, itshould provide the basis for a re-evaluation of course syllabi and the ways in which thescholarly community approaches environmental history and the history of technology.Finally, the resulting book should do well in commercial bookstores. Engineers,environmentalists, public works officials, and government decision-makers will find aconceptual approach that challenges conventional thinking about the interaction oftechnology and environment, even influencing policy guidance and project designs.

项目摘要项目描述PI 提议于 2006 年 6 月组织并主办一次研讨会，“相互联系的纽带：历史上的环境与技术”。拟议的研讨会源自 Envirotech（一个由环境历史学家和技术史学家组成的团体）发起的一个项目，旨在为我们理解技术与自然之间的关系提供新的概念和方法。智力价值目的是反映对技术的更细致的理解 代表 Envirotech 的项目负责人、里哈伊大学的 Stephen Cutcliffe 教授和美国陆军工程兵团高级历史学家 Martin Reuss 博士（将于明年 4 月退休）与弗吉尼亚大学签署了一份合同，出版与研讨会同名的论文集，这将有助于描述 这个新兴领域的智力参数。研讨会将汇集本书的贡献者以及选定的其他具有争议性的学者，在一个促进思想交叉的环境中，从而提高本书的重点。更具体地说，这个跨学科研讨会将：1。为草案和概念方法的早期批评提供机会。2．允许非贡献者对卷进行输入。3。激发对该主题的进一步思考，并鼓励贡献者之间不断交流想法。更广泛的影响 该项目的更广泛影响将涉及技术史和环境历史课程的课堂使用。它也应该在美国研究、地理和考古学课程中使用。因此，主要受众是大学本科生和研究生。然而，其他受众也同样重要。技术和环境的学术历史学家应该会发现这本书很刺激。事实上，它应该为重新评估课程大纲以及学术界处理环境史和技术史的方式提供基础。最后，最终的书应该在商业书店中表现良好。工程师、环保主义者、公共工程官员和政府决策者将找到一种概念方法，挑战关于技术与环境相互作用的传统思维，甚至影响政策指导和项目设计。