DISES: Addressing dynamic landscape inequalities in human well-being and bee health by greening

疾病：通过绿化解决人类福祉和蜜蜂健康方面的动态景观不平等问题

• 批准号: 2206292
• 负责人: Mary Gardiner
• 金额: $ 159.97万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 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: 2022-08-15 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2206292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Addressing; dynamic; landscape; inequalities

This project seeks to learn whether front yard pollinator gardens can be designed to simultaneously promote ecological health and human well-being over time. This project was co-created with community organizers from lower income suburban neighborhoods near a legacy city characterized by high property vacancy rates. Vacant lots are greenspaces that provide valuable habitat for urban bees; however, they are also a visible indicator of instability, and undermine the perceived and actual safety of communities. Coordinating with community groups, this project establishes and evaluates the impact of approximately 40 front yard pollinator gardens on the health of residents and the urban ecosystem. As part of the projects, the researchers build a network of local gardening mentors, create educational materials and curricula, and hold gardening workshops. Through these partnerships this project aims to address longstanding barriers to sustainable participation in conservation activities among lower income residents of color.This study utilizes “cues to care” (CTC) theory, which describes landscape characteristics including vividly flowering plants as visual cues that meet cultural and local norms for home landscape appearance. CTC theory suggests that human well-being and bee health must be aligned by design rather than assumed to be understood or appreciated by residents. In this study, a network of CTC front yard gardens is installed in neighborhoods that range from low to high concentrations of property vacancy. Within this network, the project examines how vacant land and CTC front yard pollinator gardens interact to influence bee health and human well-being as well as the long-term trends in front yard greening across the community. This focus on front yard gardens addresses a major theoretical knowledge gap in socio-environmental scholarship: how legacy cities can sustainably support and increase pollinator health together with human well-being in communities of color. The project also contributes to the education and training of multiple students and postdoctoral scholars who are involved in the research.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.

该项目旨在了解前院传粉者花园是否可以设计成随着时间的推移同时促进生态健康和人类福祉。这个项目是与来自低收入郊区社区的社区组织者共同创建的，这些社区靠近一个以高房产空置率为特征的传统城市。空地是绿地，为城市蜜蜂提供了宝贵的栖息地;然而，它们也是不稳定的明显指标，并破坏了社区的感知和实际安全。该项目与社区团体协调，建立并评估了约40个前院传粉者花园对居民健康和城市生态系统的影响。作为项目的一部分，研究人员建立了一个当地园艺导师网络，创建教育材料和课程，并举办园艺讲习班。通过这些合作伙伴关系，该项目旨在解决长期存在的障碍，可持续参与保护活动的低收入居民的color.This研究利用“线索照顾”（CTC）的理论，它描述了景观特征，包括生动的开花植物的视觉线索，满足文化和当地规范的家庭景观外观。CTC理论表明，人类的福祉和蜜蜂的健康必须通过设计来调整，而不是假设居民理解或欣赏。在这项研究中，CTC前院花园网络安装在社区范围从低到高的物业空置浓度。在这个网络中，该项目研究了空置土地和CTC前院传粉者花园如何相互作用，以影响蜜蜂健康和人类福祉，以及整个社区前院绿化的长期趋势。这种对前院花园的关注解决了社会环境奖学金中的一个主要理论知识缺口：传统城市如何可持续地支持和增加授粉者的健康以及有色人种社区的人类福祉。该项目还有助于教育和培训参与研究的多名学生和博士后学者。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。