Doctoral Dissertation Research: Producing Collaboration through Community-level Processes of Water Management and Infrastructure Planning

博士论文研究：通过社区层面的水管理和基础设施规划流程开展合作

• 批准号: 1357449
• 负责人: Gail Hollander
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2015-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1357449&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Producing; Collaboration

Florida International University doctoral candidate Suzana D. Mic, supervised by Dr. Laura A. Ogden, will undertake research on how collaborative governance is produced and maintained in the context of increasing political and environmental stressors. She will do this by gathering data on the community-level processes of water management and infrastructure planning under conditions of anticipated climate change. The research will be carried out in Miami, Florida, which was chosen because it is one of the world's most vulnerable urban regions in terms of assets threatened by rising sea levels. Miami also has a long history of successful water system management that has transformed a former swampy environment into a human-managed and human-centric ecosystem. Miami has been invoked as a model by other municipalities facing similar problems. The researcher will use a range of ethnographic methods to collect the micro-level data needed to understand not only the water management outcomes but also the social, cultural, and political processes that produce those outcomes. Her data will include semi-structured interviews with scientists, environmental activists and planners in the Miami area. She will attend public meetings, planning forums, and board meetings. She will collect and analyze recordings of past climate change planning activities to further examine the socio-political relations, conflicts and points of accord involved in these efforts. In addition, she will review documents at the Florida State Archives related to the history of Miami's water management. Data will be coded and analyzed with qualitative data analysis software to understand how the historical and contemporary processes of water management affect the community's adaptation to the challenges posed by climate change.

佛罗里达国际大学博士候选人苏珊娜D。由Laura A博士监督。奥格登，将进行研究如何协作治理是产生和保持在不断增加的政治和环境压力的背景下。她将通过收集关于在预期气候变化条件下社区一级水管理和基础设施规划进程的数据来做到这一点。这项研究将在佛罗里达的迈阿密进行，之所以选择迈阿密，是因为它是世界上最容易受到海平面上升威胁的城市地区之一。迈阿密在水系统管理方面也有着悠久的历史，成功地将以前的沼泽环境转变为人类管理和以人为中心的生态系统。迈阿密已被面临类似问题的其他城市援引为榜样。研究人员将使用一系列的民族志方法来收集所需的微观层面的数据，不仅要了解水管理的结果，但也产生这些结果的社会，文化和政治过程。她的数据将包括对迈阿密地区的科学家、环保活动家和规划者的半结构化采访。她将出席公众会议、规划论坛和董事会会议。她将收集和分析过去气候变化规划活动的记录，以进一步研究这些努力中涉及的社会政治关系，冲突和雅阁点。此外，她还将在佛罗里达州档案馆审查与迈阿密水资源管理历史有关的文件。将使用定性数据分析软件对数据进行编码和分析，以了解水资源管理的历史和当代进程如何影响社区适应气候变化带来的挑战。