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.

这个博士论文研究项目将集中在塑造雨水管理者如何重新定义雨水的用途和价值的因素。 在干旱和潮湿地区，雨水的处理从处理废水，污染径流和洪水作为处理和排水的东西，到处理它作为一种有益的资源，可以提高城市的可持续性，补充当地地下水供应，并具有其他有益的用途。 鉴于未来可能出现水资源短缺和风暴规模增加的情况，有效地将雨水纳入目前的水管理计划对人类和生态健康都至关重要。 为了更好地了解这种新兴类型的综合水资源管理的治理安排，博士生将实证研究对雨水的态度，以及它的收敛和发散的态度如何影响它是如何在芝加哥和洛杉矶管理。 该项目将整合科学和技术研究和政治生态学的奖学金，以推进有关态度，信仰和理解如何塑造城市环境治理和水资源管理的知识。 它还将加强对技术创新对城市环境治理影响的基本认识。 通过表征专家的态度与不同的政治，技术和气候制度的城市雨水，这项研究将提供水管理人员和市政机构的新信息和见解，不同的方式来处理雨水，因为他们考虑实施新的管理政策。 通过将主要利益攸关方纳入研究设计的多个阶段，研究结果有可能直接影响决策过程和公共政策。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。该项目将集中在三组核心问题：（1）雨水管理和调节的历史是什么，以及雨水流量是如何被政治行为者，科学专家和普通公民重新塑造和重新定义的？ (2)目前界定雨水、塑造雨水管理、记录雨水用途和价值的相互竞争的技术体系、社会观点和制度安排是什么？ (3)这些相互竞争的技术、观点和制度安排如何相互关联，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？ 为了确定共同的态度和观点，推动雨水管理的转变，学生将使用一个比较极端？案例研究方法。 他将使用Q分析方法与关键线人访谈，档案数据分析和参与者观察相结合，以确定不同的观点，并将其与其他人的观点联系起来。 这些分析将使人们更好地了解在不同地理环境中推动雨水管理转变的观点，项目结果将为从水资源紧张到水资源丰富的一系列地点发生的变化提供可概括的见解。