Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Understanding Robustness: Institutions, Disturbances, and Performance in Spanish Irrigation Communities

DRMS 博士论文研究：了解稳健性：西班牙灌溉社区的制度、干扰和绩效

• 批准号: 1120122
• 负责人: Elinor Ostrom
• 金额: $ 1.22万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1120122&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Understanding

Contemporary societies are increasingly exposed to common threats such as pollution, climate change, or market crises that are the result of the socioeconomic development process itself and manifest at global, regional, and local scales. This situation has generated a new interest in understanding the manner in which communities organize in response to threats in different contexts. Research in natural resource management has been particularly productive in that regard. In that vein, this research uses a large set of irrigation communities located in northeastern Spain to understand how characteristics of threats, the ways the local communities are organized, and the physical environment may enhance the robustness of those communities.There is a growing concern among ecologists and political scientists about the need to study robustness from an interdisciplinary perspective. This project contributes to theory building in that direction by testing the impact of both social and environmental variables. The research also helps improve decision-support computer programs that are increasingly used for water management in Spain and other countries. Finally, the research provides an inventory of sustainability threats and responses that represents the reality of many irrigation communities around the world. The inventory is useful for risk management in other natural resource sectors, so the research team is sharing the inventory with communities and public authorities.

当代社会越来越多地面临污染、气候变化或市场危机等共同威胁，这些威胁是社会经济发展过程本身的结果，并在全球、区域和地方层面上表现出来。这种情况使人们对了解社区在不同情况下组织起来应对威胁的方式产生了新的兴趣。在这方面，自然资源管理方面的研究特别富有成效。在这种情况下，本研究使用了位于西班牙东北部的大量灌溉社区来了解威胁的特征，当地社区的组织方式以及物理环境如何增强这些社区的稳健性。生态学家和政治科学家越来越关注从跨学科的角度研究稳健性的必要性。该项目通过测试社会和环境变量的影响，为这一方向的理论建设做出了贡献。这项研究还有助于改进决策支持计算机程序，这些程序越来越多地用于西班牙和其他国家的水资源管理。最后，该研究提供了可持续性威胁和应对措施的清单，代表了世界各地许多灌溉社区的现实。该清单对其他自然资源部门的风险管理很有用，因此研究小组正在与社区和公共当局共享该清单。