Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Movements Impacts on Urban Waste Systems

博士论文研究：社会运动对城市垃圾系统的影响

• 批准号: 1556311
• 负责人: Abby Kinchy
• 金额: $ 1.32万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-15 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1556311&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Movements

The proposed study will investigate the social movements that are driving one major US city to address food recovery and composting initiatives. The study will identify what conditions are facilitating competing and diverse actors and strategies to work together in order to transform a large city waste system. The findings will be of interest to community organizers, policy makers, city urban designers and planners who are managing, updating and maintaining urban waste systems. This research will ask what happens to a huge, obdurate sociotechnical system when it is challenged by numerous alternative solutions. The research will examine how top-down and bottom-up designs are coordinated through the deployment of future projections by people developing alternative food waste systems. The study will use a mixed-methods, multi-sited design to understand how actors building alternative food waste systems in New York City imagine and coordinate projected futures as they create new infrastructures. Data collection will include: 1) participant observation of design, building and maintenance of alternative food waste infrastructures; 2) participant observation at planning and policy events; 3) semi-structured interviews with organizers, volunteers, and users of systems; and 4) daily use of, and interactions with, emerging food infrastructures. This study will demonstrate how informal urbanism can create decentralized solutions to the complex problem of waste. Insights about the effectiveness and pitfalls of this approach to sociotechnical transformation will help to inform policy makers and designers seeking effective ways to weave together centralized and situated approaches to green infrastructure. Findings will be reported in both scholarly and popular venues and shared with food recovery and composing practitioners.

拟议的研究将调查推动美国一个主要城市解决食品回收和堆肥计划的社会运动。该研究将确定哪些条件有利于相互竞争的不同参与者和战略共同努力，以改造大型城市垃圾处理系统。研究结果将引起管理、更新和维护城市垃圾系统的社区组织者、政策制定者、城市设计师和规划者的兴趣。这项研究将询问一个巨大而顽固的社会技术系统在受到众多替代解决方案的挑战时会发生什么。 该研究将研究开发替代食物垃圾系统的人们如何通过部署未来预测来协调自上而下和自下而上的设计。 该研究将采用混合方法、多地点设计来了解纽约市建设替代食物垃圾系统的参与者在创建新基础设施时如何想象和协调预计的未来。数据收集将包括： 1) 参与观察替代性食物垃圾基础设施的设计、建设和维护； 2）参与规划和政策活动的观察； 3）对组织者、志愿者和系统用户的半结构化访谈； 4) 新兴食品基础设施的日常使用和互动。这项研究将展示非正式城市化如何为复杂的废物问题创造分散的解决方案。关于这种社会技术转型方法的有效性和陷阱的见解将有助于为政策制定者和设计者提供信息，帮助他们寻求有效的方法将集中式和定位的绿色基础设施方法编织在一起。研究结果将在学术和大众场所进行报道，并与食品回收和作曲从业者分享。