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Investigating the Potential for Decentralized Institutions, Technologies, and Governance to Meet the Wastewater Challenge

调查去中心化机构、技术和治理应对废水挑战的潜力

基本信息

批准号：
1628014
负责人：
Kelly Alley
金额：
$ 25.28万
依托单位：
Auburn University
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：
2016-08-01 至 2020-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1628014&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Investigating Potential Decentralized Institutions Technologies

项目摘要

Increasing water shortages and contamination have pushed communities and policy makers to reconsider their reliance on centralized wastewater treatment systems and to experiment with decentralized ones. A decentralized project is a small-scale treatment system operated in a city drain, a neighborhood, or an institutional setting without long distance transfers of wastewater through underground and above-ground pipes. But the planning and effective operation of these projects require wholesale changes not only in technology but also in institutional frameworks and systems of governance, which produces a nexus of effects across scales that is not yet well understood. The research funded by this award will address this information gap. Anthropologist Dr. Kelly D. Alley (Auburn University) and her team will study the interactions between institutional structures, governance mechanisms, geophysical landscapes of wastewater flows, and cultural practices in the context of decentralized responses to water contamination and shortage. Their project will also produce case studies in treatment, recycling, water monitoring, and environmental regulation that can be shared across communities and countries. The research will be undertaken in India, where a wide range of decentralized water reuse and pollution reduction experiments and pilot programs are planned or underway in the heavily polluted Ganges river basin. Cleaning up the Ganges is complicated by the fact that the river is, on the one hand, culturally significant as a Hindu Goddess while, on the other, it is being diminished by escalating extractions for agriculture, industry, power, and urbanization. It is the combination of these factors that makes a sample of Ganges-related projects ideal for investigating the intersectional effects of decentralized wastewater treatment approaches. The cross-project comparison will allow the researchers to identify the cultural, institutional and political conditions and constraints that make decentralized projects institutionally feasible, financially viable, and culturally acceptable. The researchers will focus on projects connected to a sample of the 144 drains that pour wastewater into the river system. The researchers will collect data through site visits and mapping of wastewater drains and treatment facilities. They will carry out structured interviews with industry and government representatives. They will conduct surveys in neighborhoods with large drains to assess cultural and political understanding of wastewater problems and acceptability of experiments and pilot projects. Findings from the research will inform policy makers anywhere who plan to undertake decentralized wastewater treatment systems. Findings will also contribute to improved social science theory of the role of infrastructure in social and cultural systems. Funding the research supports two graduate students and enhances international research collaboration.

日益严重的水资源短缺和污染迫使社区和决策者重新考虑他们对集中式废水处理系统的依赖，并尝试分散式系统。分散式项目是在城市排水管、社区或机构环境中运行的小规模处理系统，无需通过地下和地上管道进行长距离废水转移。但是，这些项目的规划和有效运作不仅需要技术上的大规模变革，而且需要体制框架和治理系统的大规模变革，这会产生一种尚未得到充分理解的跨尺度效应关系。该奖项资助的研究将解决这一信息差距。人类学家凯利博士Alley（奥本大学）和她的团队将研究体制结构，治理机制，废水流的地球物理景观和文化习俗之间的相互作用，在分散应对水污染和短缺的背景下。他们的项目还将产生处理，回收，水监测和环境监管方面的案例研究，这些研究可以在社区和国家之间共享。这项研究将在印度进行，印度正在污染严重的恒河流域计划或正在进行广泛的分散式水再利用和减少污染的实验和试点项目。清理恒河是复杂的事实，这条河是，一方面，作为一个印度教女神的文化意义，而另一方面，它正在减少农业，工业，电力和城市化的不断升级的提取。正是这些因素的结合，使得恒河相关项目的样本非常适合调查分散式污水处理方法的交叉影响。跨项目比较将使研究人员能够确定文化，制度和政治条件和限制，使分散项目在制度上可行，财务上可行，文化上可接受。研究人员将把重点放在与144个将废水排入河流系统的排水管样本有关的项目上。研究人员将通过实地考察和绘制废水排放和处理设施的地图来收集数据。他们将与工业界和政府代表进行结构化访谈。他们将在有大型排水沟的社区进行调查，以评估文化和政治对废水问题的理解以及实验和试点项目的可接受性。该研究的结果将为任何计划采用分散式污水处理系统的政策制定者提供信息。研究结果也将有助于改善社会科学理论的基础设施在社会和文化系统中的作用。资助研究支持两名研究生，并加强国际研究合作。