Doctoral Dissertation Research: Land Reclamation, Urbanization, and Infrastructural Development

博士论文研究：土地复垦、城市化与基础设施发展

• 批准号: 1948885
• 负责人: Erik Harms
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-15 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Land; Reclamation

Land reclamation is increasingly being relied upon by coastal cities responding to the pressures of intensified urbanization. While there is a long history of human settlements reclaiming land from water bodies to generate more habitable area for human activity, reclamation is no longer limited to smaller scale draining of swamps or the infilling of lakes and rivers to facilitate industry and agriculture. As more cities are reclaiming land from the sea in an effort to solve the problem of land scarcity, how is the relationship between human beings and the natural and built environment being reshaped and negotiated? In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project would enhance scientific understanding by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations with the aim of improving understanding how reclamation has altered physical landscapes and social relations. The project will produce data critical for those developing policies and urban planning strategies that can address the environmental and social costs associated with reclamation. The research will be conducted in a municipality that has reclaimed substantial portions of its current land area and plans to continue accruing more land space through a variety of technological methods. The city's willingness to engage in the latest technology to facilitate its terraforming activities also provides a window into understanding the sophistication and the scale of contemporary reclamation projects. The researcher will study ecologists who have been tasked with the undertaking of restoring mangroves that were decimated in the wake of reclamation to examine how landscapes are created, managed, and in some cases, restored. Furthermore, the study will inquire into the subjectivities of residents to determine whether certain social groups have benefited more or incurred more losses from reclamation over others. The researcher will conduct participant observation, semi-structured interviews, oral histories, and archival fieldwork to collect relevant data. Findings from this research will provide insight for policy makers and urban planners by broadening the technological focus of reclamation to include the social, cultural, and environmental dimensionsThis 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.

沿海城市在应对城市化加剧的压力时越来越依赖土地复垦。虽然人类住区从水体中开垦土地以产生更多适合人类活动的区域的历史悠久，但开垦不再局限于较小规模的沼泽排水或湖泊和河流的填充，以促进工业和农业。随着越来越多的城市开始填海造地，以解决土地稀缺的问题，人类与自然和建筑环境之间的关系如何被重塑和协商？该项目除了为培训一名人类学研究生提供资金，使其掌握经验科学数据收集和分析方法外，还将通过向各组织广泛传播其调查结果，提高科学认识，目的是提高对填海如何改变自然景观和社会关系的认识。该项目将为那些制定政策和城市规划战略的人提供关键数据，这些政策和战略可以解决与填海有关的环境和社会成本。 该研究将在一个已经开垦了相当大一部分现有土地面积并计划通过各种技术方法继续积累更多土地空间的市政府进行。该市愿意采用最新技术来促进其地球化活动，这也为了解当代填海工程的复杂性和规模提供了一个窗口。研究人员将研究生态学家，他们的任务是恢复在填海后被摧毁的红树林，以研究景观是如何创建，管理和在某些情况下恢复的。此外，研究亦会探讨居民的主观性，以决定某些社会团体在填海工程中的得益或损失是否较其他团体为大。研究者将透过参与式观察、半结构式访谈、口述历史及档案田野工作来搜集相关资料。这项研究的结果将为政策制定者和城市规划者提供洞察力，扩大了填海的技术重点，包括社会，文化和环境方面。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。