A Socioecological Investigation of the Impacts of Uneven Exurban Development and Sea-Level Rise on Socioeconomically Differentiated Communities.

远郊发展不平衡和海平面上升对社会经济分化社区影响的社会生态学调查。

• 批准号: 1759594
• 负责人: Nik Heynen
• 金额: $ 28.87万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-15 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759594&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Socioecological; Investigation; Impacts; Uneven; Exurban

This project investigates how the interconnected socio-ecological processes of uneven exurban development, growing urban-rural connections, and potential increased flooding due to sea-level rise interact to transform land-use and vulnerability in coastal environments. The investigators will analyze how historical landscape modifications increase the vulnerability to flooding of marginalized coastal communities, and how that vulnerability impacts current economic development strategies intended to increase rural community resilience amidst increasing exurban development pressures. A coupled socio-ecological approach will be used in to understand the dynamics of regional population growth and the possible impacts of sea-level rise on coastal landscapes and communities. Despite widespread recognition, the uneven ways that the history of racial inequality has raised vulnerability for some while decreasing it for others continues to be absent from much of the research that is explicitly socio-ecological, and this project seeks to add this aspect. Findings from this research project will improve planning along vulnerable coastlines by providing relevant information to state and local government managers. Additionally, the research will create educational, training, and engagement opportunities for diverse scholars, undergraduate, and graduate students.To understand the broader importance of uneven exurban development on differential communities and the impact of sea-level rise through interconnected interactions, the theoretical framing of this research will integrate insights from, and contribute to theory on, political ecology, Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research, and geographic studies of race relations. The investigators will use a mixed methods approach for data collection and analysis including archival research and ethnographic methods as well as land-use and land-cover change analysis along with hydrologic mapping. Through a case study of Sapelo Island, Georgia, this project asks three specific questions: (1) How did racialized agricultural development and population dynamics drive changes to Sapelo Island's drainage ditch network across antebellum, postbellum, and State-owned periods? (2) To what extent does the contemporary drainage ditch network increase the likelihood of vulnerability to flooding driven by future sea-level rise? (3) How will African-American economic development strategies be impacted by the coupled dynamics of socio-demographic change and sea-level rise inundation? The investigators hypothesize that the same ditches that current African-American residents'ancestors built as slaves could now worsen sea level inundation and prevent those same communities from realizing their economic development objectives.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目调查不均衡的城郊发展、日益增长的城乡联系以及海平面上升可能导致的洪灾增加等相互关联的社会生态过程如何相互作用，改变沿海环境中的土地利用和脆弱性。调查人员将分析历史景观变化如何增加被边缘化的沿海社区遭受洪水的脆弱性，以及这种脆弱性如何影响当前旨在提高农村社区在不断增加的城郊发展压力下的复原力的经济发展战略。将采用社会-生态相结合的办法，以了解区域人口增长的动态以及海平面上升对沿海景观和社区可能产生的影响。尽管得到了广泛的承认，但种族不平等的历史以不同的方式增加了一些人的脆弱性，同时减少了另一些人的脆弱性，这一点仍然没有出现在许多明确涉及社会生态的研究中，本项目试图增加这一方面。这一研究项目的发现将通过向州和地方政府管理人员提供相关信息来改善脆弱海岸线的规划。此外，这项研究将为不同的学者、本科生和研究生创造教育、培训和参与的机会。为了了解不平衡的郊区发展对不同社区的更广泛重要性，以及通过相互联系的相互作用对海平面上升的影响，本研究的理论框架将整合政治生态学、长期社会生态研究和种族关系地理研究的见解，并对其理论做出贡献。调查员将使用混合方法收集和分析数据，包括档案研究和人种学方法以及土地利用和土地覆盖变化分析以及水文制图。通过佐治亚州萨佩洛岛的案例研究，该项目提出了三个具体问题：(1)种族主义的农业发展和人口动态如何推动萨佩洛岛跨越战前、战后和国有时期的排水沟渠网络的变化？(2)当代排水沟渠网络在多大程度上增加了未来海平面上升驱动的洪水易损性？(3)非裔美国人的经济发展战略将如何受到社会人口变化和海平面上升淹没的耦合动态的影响？调查人员假设，目前非裔美国人的祖先作为奴隶建造的同样的沟渠现在可能会加剧海平面淹没，并阻止这些相同的社区实现他们的经济发展目标。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Flood Risk as Legacy Vulnerability: Reading the past into the present for environmental justice

洪水风险作为遗留漏洞：回顾过去，展望现在，实现环境正义

• DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103757
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Geoforum
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Hardy, Dean

“I am Sapelo”: Racialized uneven development and land politics within the Gullah Geechee Corridor

“我是萨佩洛”：Gullah Geechee 走廊内种族化的不平衡发展和土地政治

• DOI: 10.1177/2514848620987366
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
• 作者: Hardy, Dean;Heynen, Nik
• 通讯作者: Heynen, Nik

“A plantation can be a commons”: Re‐Earthing Sapelo Island through Abolition Ecology: The 2018 Neil Smith Lecture

– 种植园可以成为公地 –：重新 – 通过废除生态学使萨佩洛岛地球化：2018 年尼尔·史密斯讲座

• DOI: 10.1111/anti.12631
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Antipode
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Heynen, Nik

“We’re Still Here”: An Abolition Ecology Blockade of Double Dispossession of Gullah/Geechee Land

“我们还在这里”：废除对古拉/吉奇土地双重剥夺的生态封锁

• DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1989282
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Annals of the American Association of Geographers
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Hardy, Dean;Bailey, Maurice;Heynen, Nik
• 通讯作者: Heynen, Nik