REU Site: Addressing Social and Environmental Disparities through Community Geography and Geographic Information Systems

REU 网站：通过社区地理和地理信息系统解决社会和环境差异

• 批准号: 1156755
• 负责人: Katherine Hankins
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-02-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156755&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Addressing; Social; Environmental

Intellectual Merit: The six-week summer REU site engages a diverse group of students, faculty and community members in community-based geographic inquiry of social and environmental disparities in Atlanta neighborhoods, including examinations of neighborhood change, property markets, air quality, urban green spaces, and neighborhood visioning. With an explicit focus on community geography, university-community partnerships and participatory methodologies, the research training program is among the first of its kind for undergraduates in the United States. The REU aims to develop well-prepared, ethical researchers who are committed to community-based research for addressing social and environmental disparities. The site also seeks to develop a new conceptual framework for community geography, an emerging subfield of geography that draws from Participatory GIS (PGIS), mixed methodologies, and critical urban theory. Community geography places explicit emphasis on identifying the spatial thinking and local knowledges that emerge from neighborhood residents' experiences and seeks to affect positive community change, in a variety of ways, whether it is to visualize challenges and assets, improve service delivery, or more accurately identify geographic disparities. Undergraduates and faculty mentors in this project investigate the spatial thinking and local knowledges of residents who seek to address social and environmental disparities in Atlanta.Broader Impacts: The most important impact is that the site is among the first U.S.-based undergraduate training programs explicitly focused on community-based geographic inquiry where undergraduates develop their interests in community geography. Second, there is an opportunity for knowledge discovery to identify and mitigate social and environmental disparities in urban neighborhoods. Third, each student will be confronted with real-life examples/conflicts in research ethics. Fourth, there is practical significance for local communities as shared products and data are developed in the forms of maps, datasets, an online GIS server, non-technical reports, oral histories and multimedia. Finally, knowledge and practices gained from the site can lead to disciplinary transformation as the team develops a new conceptual framework for community geography.

智力优势：为期六周的夏季REU网站吸引了不同群体的学生，教师和社区成员参与亚特兰大社区的社会和环境差异的社区地理调查，包括邻里变化，房地产市场，空气质量，城市绿色空间和邻里愿景的检查。明确侧重于社区地理，大学与社区的合作伙伴关系和参与式方法，研究培训计划是美国本科生中的第一个。REU旨在培养准备充分的道德研究人员，他们致力于以社区为基础的研究，以解决社会和环境差异。该网站还试图为社区地理学开发一个新的概念框架，这是一个新兴的地理学子领域，借鉴了地理信息系统（PGIS），混合方法和批判性城市理论。社区地理明确强调识别从社区居民的经验中出现的空间思维和当地知识，并寻求以各种方式影响积极的社区变化，无论是可视化挑战和资产，改善服务提供，还是更准确地识别地理差异。在这个项目中，本科生和教师导师调查了寻求解决亚特兰大社会和环境差异的居民的空间思维和当地知识。更广泛的影响：最重要的影响是，该网站是美国第一个基于社区的本科培训计划明确侧重于以社区为基础的地理调查，本科生发展他们的兴趣在社区地理。其次，有一个机会，知识发现，以确定和减轻社会和环境的差距，在城市社区。第三，每个学生都将面临现实生活中的例子/研究伦理冲突。第四，对地方社区具有实际意义，因为共享产品和数据是以地图、数据集、在线地理信息系统服务器、非技术报告、口述历史和多媒体的形式开发的。最后，从该网站获得的知识和实践可以导致学科转型的团队开发一个新的概念框架社区地理。