Doctoral Dissertation Research: Variation in Socio-Environmental System Response to Glacial Recession

博士论文研究：社会环境系统对冰川衰退反应的变化

• 批准号: 2116197
• 负责人: Nancy Postero
• 金额: $ 0.83万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116197&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Variation; Socio

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Rapid glacier recession presents a unique opportunity to explore how environmental forces shape human actions while being shaped by them in return. While research on increasing environmental variability justifiably continues to focus on understanding the physical characteristics of glacier retreat, not enough research addresses the impacts of glacial retreat on evolving, socially created landscapes built around glaciers. As a result, resiliency and climate adaptation policies may fail because they ignore the complex social relationships and historical particularities that shaped societies in glacial environments to begin with and pay insufficient attention to how human relationships with both other humans and their environment evolve as glaciers melt. This doctoral dissertation research project asks how human and human-environmental relations influence the formation of transforming landscapes and livelihoods. 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 results will be disseminated to organizational stakeholders that can optimize climate adaptation policies. This project also broadens the participation of groups underrepresented in science.This comparative research project, conducted in two melting glacial valleys, examines how unevenly situated stakeholders adapt to, circumvent or exploit glacial melt. Pilot research revealed a glacial valley where stakeholders, including indigenous and other local communities, scientists, miners and policymakers, were more concerned with claiming rights to newly accessible land and resources than with impending water scarcity. This points to a potential gap between climate adaptation policies, focused on vulnerability, and actual lived experiences of environmental change. Via in-depth and semi-structured interviews and mobile observational elicitation techniques, this project explores variation in the ways which climate change impacts stakeholders’ present and immediate future, providing insights into the potential range of human responses to glacial melt at a global level. Results from the research improve scientific understanding of the transformation of human-environmental systems in response to climate change.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）全部或部分资助的。快速冰川经济衰退为探索环境力量如何塑造人类行动时，在被他们塑造的同时如何塑造人类行动。尽管对增加环境变异性的研究有理由继续专注于理解冰川静修的物理特征，但没有足够的研究解决冰川撤退对围绕冰川围绕的不断发展的社会创造的景观的影响。结果，弹性和气候适应政策可能会失败，因为它们忽略了在冰川环境中塑造社会的复杂社会关系和历史特殊性，从而开始并不足以关注与其他人类与其他人的关系如何随着冰川的融化而对人类的关系如何演变。该博士学位论文研究项目询问人类和人类环境关系如何影响转变景观和生计的形成。除了为在经验，科学数据收集和分析方法中培训人类学研究生的资金外，项目结果还将传播给可以优化气候适应政策的组织利益相关者。该项目还扩大了在科学中代表性不足的群体的参与。该比较研究项目在两个融化的冰川山谷中进行了研究，研究了位置的利益相关者如何适应，避免或利用冰川融化的方式。飞行员研究表明，冰川谷，包括土著和其他当地社区，科学家，矿工和政策制定者在内的利益相关者更关心声称对新近接近土地和资源的权利，而不是与即将到来的水短缺。这表明气候适应政策的潜在差距，集中于脆弱性和环境变化的实际生活经历。通过深入和半结构化的访谈和移动观察性启发技术，该项目探讨了气候变化影响利益相关者当前和直接未来的方式的差异，从而洞悉了人类对冰川融化的潜在反应在全球层面。研究的结果提高了对人类环境系统对气候变化的转型的科学理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来审查标准，被认为是珍贵的支持。