Doctoral Dissertation Research: Perspectives of and Preferences Towards Stormwater Management

博士论文研究：雨水管理的观点和偏好

• 批准号: 1536377
• 负责人: Joshua Newell
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1536377&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Perspectives; Preferences

This doctoral dissertation research project will focus on the factors that shape how stormwater managers have redefined the uses and value of stormwater. In both arid and humid regions, the treatment of stormwater from dealing with wastewater, polluted runoff, and floodwater as something to treated and drained away to handling it as a beneficial resource that can enhance urban sustainability, recharge local groundwater supplies, and have other beneficial uses. Given the possibility for future water scarcity and increases in the size of storms, effectively integrating stormwater into current water management schemes will be crucial for both human and ecological health. To better understand the governance arrangements of this emerging type of integrated water resource management, the doctoral student will empirically examine attitudes about stormwater as well as how converging and diverging attitudes of it influence how it is managed in Chicago and Los Angeles. This project will integrate scholarship in science and technology studies and political ecology in order to advance knowledge regarding how attitudes, beliefs, and understandings shape urban environmental governance and water resource management. It also will enhance basic understanding of the impacts of technological innovation on urban environmental governance. By characterizing expert attitudes toward stormwater in cities with different political, technological, and climatic regimes this research will provide water managers and municipal agencies with new information and insights regarding different ways to deal with stormwater as they contemplate the implementation of new management policies. By including key stakeholders in multiple phases of the research design, the findings have the potential to directly influence decision-making processes and public policy. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.The project will focus on three sets of core questions: (1) What is the history of stormwater management and regulation, and in what ways have the flows of stormwater been remade and redefined by political actors, scientific experts, and ordinary citizens? (2) What are the competing technological systems, social perspectives, and institutional arrangements that currently define stormwater, shape its management, and inscribe its uses and value? (3) How do these competing technologies, perspectives, and institutional arrangements relate to one another and influence how stormwater is understood, managed, and controlled in order to address issues of risk and vulnerability? To identify the shared attitudes and perspectives driving transitions in stormwater management, the student will use a comparative extreme?case study approach. He will use the Q-method of analysis in tandem with key informant interviews, analysis of archival data, and participant observation to identify different points of view and relate them to the points of view of others. The analyses will provide a better understanding of the perspectives driving transformations in stormwater management in different geographical contexts, and project findings will provide generalizable insights into the range of variation that occurs across a spectrum of water-stressed to water-abundant sites.

该博士学位论文研究项目将集中在塑造雨水经理重新定义雨水的用途和价值的因素上。 在干旱和潮湿地区，通过处理废水，污染的径流和洪水来处理雨水，作为一种有益的资源来处理和耗尽的东西，可以增强城市可持续性，为当地的地下水供应增值，并具有其他有益的用途。 考虑到未来缺水的可能性和暴风雨规模的增加，有效地将雨水整合到当前的水管理方案中对于人类和生态健康至关重要。 为了更好地了解这种新兴类型的综合水资源管理类型的治理安排，博士生将凭经验研究对雨水的态度，以及它的融合和不同态度如何影响芝加哥和洛杉矶的管理方式。 该项目将融合科学，技术研究和政治生态学的奖学金，以促进有关态度，信念和理解如何塑造城市环境治理和水资源管理的知识。 它还将增强对技术创新对城市环境治理的影响的基本理解。 通过表征具有不同政治，技术和气候制度的城市中对雨水的专家态度，这项研究将为水管理人员和市政机构提供有关处理新管理政策时处理雨水的不同方式的新信息和见解。 通过将主要利益相关者包括在研究设计的多个阶段中，这些发现有可能直接影响决策过程和公共政策。 作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生能够建立强大的独立研究职业。该项目将重点介绍三组核心问题：（1）雨水管理和监管的历史是什么，以及雨水的流动如何由政治参与者，科学家，科学专家以及普通公民以及普通公民进行重塑和重新定义？ （2）当前定义雨水，塑造其管理和刻画其用途和价值的竞争技术系统，社会观点和机构安排是什么？ （3）这些竞争技术，观点和机构安排如何相互关系，并影响如何理解，管理和控制雨水以解决风险和脆弱性问题？ 为了确定在雨水管理中驱动过渡的共同态度和观点，学生将采用比较的极端案例研究方法。 他将与关键的线人访谈，档案数据分析和参与者观察一起使用分析的Q-Method来确定不同的观点，并将其与他人的观点联系起来。 这些分析将更好地理解在不同地理环境下驱动雨水管理中推动转化的观点，项目发现将提供可概括的见解，以了解各种水的频谱，这些变化范围是水上压力的水域。