Doctoral Dissertation Research: Global Financial Market Practices in Urban Resilience Planning

该项目调查了与环境变化风险相关的金融市场实践的变化如何影响城市和居住在城市中的人。该研究将为理解影响城市如何应对不断变化的环境的金融驱动因素做出重大贡献。这项工作将加强对无法负担的洪水保险，财产贬值以及受这些增加的环境风险影响的城市的政府管理的影响的了解。了解这些不断变化的做法对城市生活的影响，对于建立公平和有效的城市治理至关重要。该项目的研究结果将在公开获取的文章中传播，供公众使用，该项目将支持博士生的培训。本研究综合运用专家访谈、民族志观察和文献分析，探讨金融市场实践变化在城市韧性规划中的作用。这项研究将在已经经历环境变化影响并已建立复原力联系的沿海城市进行。具体的研究问题，调查人员将回答包括：（1）什么样的问题（S）环境的变化造成的关键金融市场的参与者，他们如何解决这些问题，在他们的做法？(2)这些做法如何为政府的复原力行动提供信息？以及（3）市场驱动的行动如何影响居民未来提出金融索赔的能力？该项目提供了一个新的视角来看待世界各地社会面临的两个日益普遍的当代问题：如何为城市复原力提供资金，以及不断变化的风险评级做法如何造成城市不平等和不均衡的社会和环境结果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This project investigates how changing financial market practices associated with environmental variability risks impact cities and those who live in them. The research will make significant contributions to an understanding of the financial drivers that shape how cities respond to a changing environment. The work will enhance knowledge of the impact of unaffordable flood insurance, property devaluation, and governmental management in cities impacted by these increased environmental risks. Understanding the impact of these changing practices on urban life is critical for creating equitable and effective urban governance. Findings from this project will be disseminated in open-access articles for public use and the project will support the training of doctoral student. This research uses an integration of expert interviews, ethnographic observation, and documentary analysis to examine the role of changing financial market practices in urban resilience planning. The research will be conducted in coastal cities that are already experiencing the effects of a changing environment and that have put into place resilience bonds. Specific research questions that the investigators will answer include: (1) What kind of problem(s) does environmental variability pose to key financial market actors, and how do they address these problems in their practices?; (2) How do these practices inform governmental action on resilience?; and (3) How might market-driven action impact residents’ ability to make financial claims in the future? This project offers a novel perspective on two increasingly pervasive contemporary problems that face societies around the world: how to finance urban resilience, and how changing risk rating practices create urban inequalities and uneven social and environmental outcomes.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.