Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multi-Scalar Analysis of Environmental Variability Adaptation Projects

博士论文研究：环境变化适应项目的多标量分析

• 批准号: 2002829
• 负责人: Diana Liverman
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 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: 2020-04-15 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2002829&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Multi; Scalar

This doctoral dissertation research improvement project analyzes the long-term impacts of projects that address adaptation to environmental variability. The goal of these projects is to assist communities to respond to the impacts of current and future environmental variability, safeguarding livelihoods and economic development. However, there have been few evaluations done of their long-term impacts. This research integrates political ecology with adaptation impact studies to examine the long-term impacts. The research links the transnational scale of climate finance to national adaptation governance and local outcomes of related projects, and will provide critical insights into the efficacy of adaptation projects. Findings will be disseminated via research publications, reports to local communities that have benefited from investment in adaption projects, and via curriculum development for graduate studies in adaptation research. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide critical support to a young scholar as they develop their independent research profile. This research poses the following questions: (1) At the national level, how do the organizations designing and implementing adaptation projects define and measure the success of these actions and translate lessons to future projects? (2) At the local level, what are the enduring impacts of internationally funded adaptation projects on the adaptive capacity of recipient communities? and (3) What alternative evaluation methodologies can provide additional insight into the long-term outcomes of adaptation projects? To answer these questions, this project uses mixed methods, integrating data derived from a systematic analysis of adaptation documents, semi-structured interviews with key informants, and participant observation, to build an institutional ethnography of adaptation governance to environmental variability. The project also advances a methodology by contributing to understanding the methods and analysis necessary for assessing the multi-dimensional outcomes of adaptation projects over time.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.

这个博士论文研究改进项目分析了解决适应环境变化的项目的长期影响。这些项目的目标是协助社区应对当前和未来环境变化的影响，保障生计和经济发展。然而，很少对其长期影响进行评估。这项研究将政治生态学与适应影响研究相结合，以考察长期影响。该研究将气候融资的跨国规模与国家适应治理和相关项目的地方成果联系起来，并将为适应项目的有效性提供重要见解。研究结果将通过研究出版物、向受益于适应项目投资的当地社区提交的报告以及通过适应研究研究生课程的编制进行传播。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将为年轻学者提供关键支持，因为他们发展自己的独立研究概况。 这项研究提出了以下问题：（1）在国家一级，设计和执行适应项目的组织如何界定和衡量这些行动的成功并将经验教训转化为未来的项目？(2)在地方一级，国际资助的适应项目对受援社区的适应能力有哪些持久影响？以及（3）哪些替代性评估方法可以为适应项目的长期成果提供更多的见解？为了回答这些问题，该项目采用混合方法，整合来自适应文件的系统分析，半结构化访谈的关键知情人，和参与者观察的数据，建立适应治理的制度人种志环境变异。该项目还通过帮助理解评估适应项目随着时间的推移的多维结果所需的方法和分析来推进方法。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Governmentalities, hydrosocial territories & recognition politics: The making of objects and subjects for climate change adaptation in Ecuador

政府机构、水文社会领域

• DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.024
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Geoforum
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Mills-Novoa, Megan;Boelens, Rutgerd;Hoogesteger, Jaime;Vos, Jeroen
• 通讯作者: Vos, Jeroen

Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383
• 发表时间: 2021-01-22
• 期刊: WORLD DEVELOPMENT
• 影响因子: 6.9
• 作者: Eriksen, Siri;Schipper, E. Lisa F.;West, Jennifer Joy
• 通讯作者: West, Jennifer Joy