DISES: Valuing and managing engineered ecosystems: Primary and secondary services provided by stormwater ponds in urban landscapes

雨水湿池（SWPs）在雨水进入湖泊或河流等自然水域之前，收集从城市和郊区景观中流下的雨水。swp的建设主要是为了防洪和水质效益，但它们也可以改善人们的日常生活。例如，swp可以增加休闲区域，增加社区的房屋价值。该项目结合了环境、经济和社会研究，以了解人类行为和SWPs管理如何与SWPs中的自然过程相互作用。这些相互作用影响着swp给人类和自然带来的好处。该项目将调查管理如何影响藻华和其他SWP水质问题的权衡。研究人员还将研究人们如何评估swp，并估计它们对附近房屋销售价格的影响。研究结果将结合起来，寻找增加SWPs为人们提供的生态、社会和经济价值的方法。该项目将量化swp提供的生态系统服务，如改善水质和去除污染物、提高财产价值和增加生物多样性。通过研究不同社会层次（从个人到社区）的社会规范、价值观和决策的变化，以及这些变化如何与生态过程相互作用，将记录生态系统服务的利益和权衡。此外，本研究将在地方和区域尺度上进行，以1)揭示不同社会和治理水平对SWPs的看法和价值的差异，2)量化SWPs提供的生态系统服务（营养物去除，防止有害藻华，碳封存），以及3)确定社会对这些服务的偏好。在社会科学领域，经济学家和人类学家将结合调查、焦点小组和享乐住房模型来确定swp对社会的价值。在自然科学领域，生物地球化学家、生态学家和生理学家将量化SWP生物地球化学和微生物群落动态的时空方面。自然科学和社会科学领域将通过对SWP及其社区的地方和全州社会生态调查，实验测试不同藻类管理方法的有效性，以及使用地理空间方法确定社会人口统计学与SWP生态系统服务之间关系的综合分析来联系起来。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Stormwater wet ponds (SWPs) capture rainwater that runs off urban and suburban landscapes before it enters natural waters like lakes or rivers. SWPs are mainly built for flood control and water quality benefits, but they can also improve people’s daily lives. For example, SWPs can add recreational area and increase home values in a neighborhood. This project combines environmental, economic, and social research to understand how human behaviors and management of SWPs interact with natural processes in SWPs. These interactions influence the benefits that SWPs provide to people and nature. The project will investigate tradeoffs in how management affects algal blooms and other SWP water quality issues. Researchers will also study how people value SWPs and estimate their effect on the sales price of nearby homes. Results will be combined to find ways to increase the ecological, social, and economic value that SWPs provide to people.The project will quantify ecosystem services provided by SWPs such as improved water quality and pollutant removal, enhanced property values, and increased biodiversity. The benefits and tradeoffs in ecosystem services will be documented through research on variations in social norms, values, and decisions across different social levels (from the individual to the community) and how these variations interact with ecological processes. Further, this research will occur at local and regional scales to 1) reveal differences in perceptions and values of SWPs across different levels of society and governance, 2) quantify ecosystem services (nutrient removal, protection from harmful algal blooms, carbon sequestration) provided by SWPs, and 3) establish societal preferences for these services. In the social science realm, economists and anthropologists will use a combination of surveys, focus groups, and hedonic housing models to identify the value of SWPs to society. In the natural science realm, biogeochemists, ecologists, and phycologists will quantify spatial and temporal aspects of SWP biogeochemistry and microbial community dynamics. The natural and social science realms will be linked through local and statewide socioecological surveys of SWPs and their communities, experiments testing efficacies of different algal management approaches, and synthetic analyses using geospatial approaches to identify relationships between social demographics and SWP ecosystem services.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.