HSD: RUI: Collaborative Research: Interdisciplinary Research and Methods for Assessing Dams as Agents of Change in China

HSD：RUI：合作研究：评估大坝作为中国变革推动者的跨学科研究和方法

• 批准号: 0826771
• 负责人: Darrin Magee
• 金额: $ 9.05万
• 依托单位: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0826771&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSD; RUI; Collaborative; Research; Interdisciplinary

To sustainably meet the simultaneous and growing demands for water, energy, and environmental quality while protecting the welfare and tradition of affected communities, a broader view of dams is needed. To address this need, this interdisciplinary research project will apply a new tool for evaluating the relative costs and benefits of dam construction based on multi-objective planning techniques. The Integrative Dam Assessment Modeling (IDAM) tool is designed to integrate biophysical, socioeconomic, and geopolitical perspectives into a single cost/benefit analysis of dam construction. Each of 27 different impacts of dam construction will be evaluated both objectively (e.g., flood protection) and subjectively (i.e., the valuation of said flood protection) by a team of decision makers. By providing a visual representation of the costs and benefits associated with two or more dams, the IDAM tool will allow decision makers to evaluate alternatives and to articulate priorities associated with a dam project, making the decision process more informed and more transparent. The IDAM tool will be an evolutionary step in dam evaluation. Coupled with event chronologies and hotspot mapping of conflicts, household surveys, public-participatory geographic information systems, and hydrologic modeling, the proposed process will be used to investigate hypotheses regarding the assessment, minimization, and distribution of hydropower impacts across cultural and organizational levels and to engage stakeholders in the design process through a decision theater.Significant intellectual contributions of this project will include the use of a uniquely multidisciplinary, integrative model to understand the effects of dams through a controlled study of a complex social and environmental system in China. The project will make several pragmatic contributions related to policy and decision making through disciplinary and interdisciplinary investigation. The project therefore will increase understanding about the interplay of multiple impacts of dam construction in a variety of geographic contexts. Because this collaborative effort will includes opportunities for research in undergraduate institutions, this project will support high-quality research by faculty members at two undergraduate institutions and encourage the integration of research and education. Substantial coordination and capacity building will occur across organizations, levels of experience, and disciplines. A broad dissemination strategy is aimed at strengthening research, teaching, and public outreach about society environment interactions in the U.S., Asia, and elsewhere. Finally, this decision-support process will yield both new knowledge and accessible tools for improving institutions' ability to manage the social and environmental dynamics associated with dams as agents of change. An award resulting from the FY 2008 NSF-wide competition on Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) supports this project. All NSF directorates and offices are involved in the coordinated management of the HSD competition and the portfolio of HSD awards.

为了可持续地满足人们对水、能源和环境质量日益增长的需求，同时保护受影响社区的福利和传统，我们需要从更广泛的角度来看待大坝。为了满足这一需求，本跨学科研究项目将应用一种基于多目标规划技术的新工具来评估大坝建设的相对成本和效益。综合水坝评估模型（IDAM）工具旨在将生物物理、社会经济和地缘政治观点整合到大坝建设的单一成本/效益分析中。由一组决策者对大坝建设的27种不同影响进行客观（如防洪）和主观（如防洪评估）评估。通过提供与两个或更多水坝相关的成本和收益的可视化表示，IDAM工具将允许决策者评估备选方案并阐明与水坝项目相关的优先事项，使决策过程更加知情和透明。IDAM工具将是大坝评估的一个进化步骤。结合事件年表和冲突热点地图、住户调查、公众参与式地理信息系统和水文建模，拟议的过程将用于调查有关水电影响在文化和组织层面的评估、最小化和分配的假设，并通过决策剧场让利益相关者参与设计过程。本项目的重要智力贡献将包括使用独特的多学科综合模型，通过对中国复杂社会和环境系统的对照研究来理解大坝的影响。该项目将通过学科和跨学科的研究，对政策和决策做出一些务实的贡献。因此，该项目将增加对大坝建设在各种地理环境中多重影响的相互作用的理解。由于这项合作努力将包括在本科院校进行研究的机会，该项目将支持两所本科院校的教师进行高质量的研究，并鼓励研究和教育的整合。实质性的协调和能力建设将发生在组织、经验水平和学科之间。一项广泛的传播战略旨在加强美国、亚洲和其他地区关于社会环境相互作用的研究、教学和公众宣传。最后，这一决策支持过程将产生新的知识和可获得的工具，以提高机构管理与水坝作为变革推动者相关的社会和环境动态的能力。由2008财年nsf人类与社会动力学（HSD）竞赛产生的奖项支持该项目。所有NSF理事会和办公室都参与了HSD竞赛和HSD奖项组合的协调管理。