The Emerging Commodity of Restored Streams: Science, Policy, and Econmics in New Markets for Ecosystem Service Commodities

恢复河流的新兴商品：生态系统服务商品新市场中的科学、政策和经济学

• 批准号: 1213827
• 负责人: Martin Doyle
• 金额: $ 54.06万
• 依托单位: Duke 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: 2011-06-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1213827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emerging; Commodity; Restored; Streams; Science

The science and technology of stream restoration has matured alongside market-based strategies for environmental protection, and the two approaches are combined in the emerging stream mitigation banking industry. Stream mitigation banking allows developers to offset stream impacts by purchasing restoration "credits" produced by for-profit companies, essentially creating a market in stream ecosystems. Assuring the quality and quantity of impacted and restored streams, which is required by both market and regulation, is a task of measurement that has drawn scientists into emerging ecosystem markets. More generally, stream mitigation is a manifestation of ecosystem markets in their infancy, such as carbon trading. This research project will examine the application of science, policy, and markets at stream mitigation bank sites by fully leveraging mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. The investigators will combine field and modeling studies of hydrogeomorphic processes; interviews with scientists, regulators, and entrepreneurs; and historical and archival research to fully document and understand the practice of stream mitigation banking. Their ultimate goal is to understand how policy, science, and markets interact to leave a distinct imprint on the landscape. This research will draw on sophisticated theory and methods in very divergent branches of geography and related fields in the geosciences and social sciences to inform a vital environmental policy issue.This project will shed light on the new paradigm of using markets for environmental management. Theory derived from this project will be scalable and transferable (with appropriate modification) to emerging environmental markets in other locales and other phenomena, such as carbon trading, water quality trading, and endangered species habitat conservation banks. Because the stream mitigation banking industry is relatively young, this project also can inform practical policy and processes. In addition to benefitting researchers and students directly involved in this project, it will help to build the growing community of interdisciplinary scholars through a joint university short-course program.

河流恢复的科学技术和基于市场的环境保护策略已经成熟，这两种方法在新兴的河流减缓银行业中相结合。 河流缓解银行允许开发商通过购买营利性公司生产的恢复“信用”来抵消河流影响，本质上是在河流生态系统中创建一个市场。 确保受影响和恢复河流的质量和数量（这是市场和监管的要求）是一项测量任务，吸引了科学家进入新兴的生态系统市场。 更一般地说，河流减缓是生态系统市场处于起步阶段的表现，例如碳交易。 该研究项目将充分利用定量和定性混合方法，研究科学、政策和市场在河流减缓银行站点的应用。 研究人员将结合水文地貌过程的实地研究和模型研究；采访科学家、监管机构和企业家；历史和档案研究，以充分记录和理解河流缓解银行的实践。 他们的最终目标是了解政策、科学和市场如何相互作用，从而在景观上留下独特的印记。 这项研究将利用地理学和地球科学和社会科学相关领域的不同分支的复杂理论和方法，为重要的环境政策问题提供信息。该项目将揭示利用市场进行环境管理的新范式。 从该项目得出的理论将可扩展并可转移（经过适当修改）到其他地区的新兴环境市场和其他现象，例如碳交易、水质交易和濒危物种栖息地保护银行。 由于河流减缓银行业相对年轻，该项目也可以为实际政策和流程提供信息。 除了使直接参与该项目的研究人员和学生受益之外，还将通过大学联合短期课程项目帮助建立不断壮大的跨学科学者社区。