Doctoral Dissertation Research: Real Estate Speculation and its Impact on Agricultural Access to Water Resources in Contexts of Rapid Urbanization

博士论文研究：快速城市化背景下的房地产投机及其对农业获取水资源的影响

• 批准号: 2049507
• 负责人: Donald Nonini
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049507&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Real; Estate

In the past three decades, residential real estate markets have undergone significant growth, consonant with the shift from industrial production to financial markets as a principle locus of investment. Residential real estate in particular has become more common, accelerating patterns of land speculation and urbanization in areas undergoing agricultural decline. The socio-ecological effects of these transformations are vast and include processes such as the displacement and segregation of rural populations, livelihood change and work precaritization, deforestation, water privatization, and increases in climate vulnerability. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical data collection and analysis, this doctoral dissertation project provides a scientific analysis of the economic and political practices driving these processes of landscape transformation as well as the experiences of rural communities in areas impacted by rapid urbanization.This doctoral dissertation research project examines the relationship between real estate speculation and water resource access among agricultural producers in a context of rapid urbanization. It asks three questions about the processes of land speculation and real estate development in rural areas: (1) How have different rural communities experienced the pressures for urbanization and the process of deruralization implied by it? (2) Which are the main groups acquiring residential property in the area and what are the main uses assigned to those properties? (3) What are the rationalities of governmental officials in prioritizing the urbanization of water supply promoted by real estate actors? To answer these questions the doctoral student will analyze the histories of two former agricultural production properties which have been targeted as residential development sites. The researcher will also conduct archival research, oral histories and semi-structured with residents, state officials, developers, urban planners, and other relevant groups. These histories will contribute to scientific understanding about the relationship between rapid urbanization and the financialization of real estate markets, and to what extent human-environment relations are defined by the growth of global financial markets.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.

在过去的三十年中，住宅房地产市场已经发生了显着的增长，这是从工业生产到金融市场的转变，这是投资的主要基础。尤其是住宅房地产已变得越来越普遍，在农业衰落的地区加速了土地投机和城市化模式。这些转变的社会生态影响是巨大的，包括诸如农村人群的流离失所和隔离，生计变化和工作不稳定，森林砍伐，水私有化以及气候脆弱性的增加。除了在经验数据收集和分析的方法中为培训人类学研究生提供资金，该博士学位论文项目还提供了对推动这些景观转变过程的经济和政治实践的科学分析，以及在较快的城市化范围内的农村社区的经验以及在较快的范围内的供应范围的领域的经验。城市化。它问了有关农村地区土地投机和房地产发展过程的三个问题：（1）不同的农村社区如何经历城市化的压力以及其暗示的贬低过程？ （2）哪些主要组是该地区的住宅物业的主要用途是什么？ （3）政府官员在优先考虑房地产行为者促进的供水城市化方面的理性是什么？为了回答这些问题，博士生将分析两个以前的农业生产特性的历史，这些历史被定为住宅开发地点。研究人员还将与居民，州官员，开发商，城市规划人员和其他相关群体进行档案研究，口述历史和半结构。这些历史将有助于对快速城市化与房地产市场金融化之间关系的科学理解，并在多大程度上由全球金融市场的增长来定义人类环境关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的。