Collaborative Research: GCR: Common Pool Resource Theory as a Scalable Framework for Catalyzing Stakeholder-Driven Solutions to the Freshwater Salinization Syndrome

合作研究：GCR：公共池资源理论作为催化利益相关者驱动的淡水盐化综合症解决方案的可扩展框架

• 批准号: 2312326
• 负责人: Jesus Gomez-Velez
• 金额: $ 46.42万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2312326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GCR; Common; Pool

Inland freshwater salt concentrations are rising across many regions of the United States and globally—a trend that directly threatens water quality, ecosystems, and drinking water supplies. The research team will test a potentially generalizable approach to reverse inland freshwater salinization that relies on local agencies and other stakeholders—in partnership with engineers, hydrologists, social scientists, and policymakers—to craft locally tailored “bottom-up” solutions to this growing problem (as opposed to regulatorily driven “top-down” solutions). The test case for the study will be the Occoquan Reservoir, a drinking water supply for nearly 2 million people in Northern Virginia. The reservoir is salinizing and to better understand the underlying causes, the researchers will focus on two major salt sources: effluent from a wastewater treatment plant and deicer use in upstream watersheds. Through convergence research, education and outreach they will identify mechanisms that promote collaboration between stakeholders to effectively manage the salt budget of this regionally important drinking water supply. Lessons learned will be upscaled nationally and globally in partnership with the Water Research Foundation.At its core, inland freshwater salinization is a common pool resource (CPR) problem, because inland freshwaters are available to all actors and restricting access would be prohibitively expensive. From detailed studies of collective action arrangements in the water sector, Nobel-laureate Elinor Ostrom developed a social-ecological-systems (SES) framework for diagnosing the conditions under which local actors are likely to band together to manage a CPR without outside interference. This project hypothesizes that Ostrom’s SES framework can be used to diagnose, and resolve, the challenges and barriers that limit, or outright prevent, bottom-up management of inland freshwater salt budgets. Through semi-structured interviews with local water and wastewater managers and other stakeholders, multi-stakeholder deliberations featuring shared learning and exploration, biophysical and social science field and modeling studies, and longitudinal studies of stakeholders’ evolving understanding of the problem, the researchers will test the hypothesis that Ostrom’s framework can “propel knowledge into action” and catalyze bottom-up solutions to threats to ecosystem sustainability and human water security.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.

内陆淡水盐浓度在美国和全球许多地区都在上升，这种趋势直接威胁着水质，生态系统和饮用水供应。研究小组将测试一种可能概括的方法，以逆转内陆淡水盐化，该方法依赖于本地机构和其他利益相关者（与工程师，水文学家，社会科学家和政策制定者）​​合作，以对本地量身定制的“自下而上”解决方案来解决这一不断增长的问题（与规定的“自上而下”解决方案）。该研究的测试案例将是Occoquan水库，这是北弗吉尼亚州近200万人的饮用水供应。水库正在盐水盐水，为了更好地理解潜在的原因，研究人员将专注于两个主要的盐源：从废水处理厂和上游流域中使用的Deicer使用有效。通过融合研究，教育和推广，他们将确定促进利益相关者之间合作的机制，以有效地管理该地区重要的饮用水供应的盐预算。经验教训将与水研究基金会合作，在全国和全球范围内进行扫描。在其核心，内陆淡水盐水化是一个常见的泳池资源（CPR）问题，因为内陆淡水可以为所有参与者提供，并且限制访问权限将是昂贵的。从对水部门的集体行动安排的详细研究中，诺贝尔·洛尔（Nobel-Laureate Elinor Ostrom）为诊断制定了一个社会生态系统（SES）框架，其中本地参与者很可能会团结起来管理无外部干扰的CPR。该项目假设Ostrom的SES框架可用于诊断和解决，限制内陆淡水盐预算的自下而上管理的挑战和障碍。通过与当地水和废水经理以及其他利益相关者的半结构式访谈，具有共享学习和探索，生物物理学和社会科学领域的多方利益相关者审议，以及对利益相关者对问题的不断理解的纵向研究以及研究人员将对框架进行策略的知识来测试，并将其核对范围降低，并将其凝结到“框架上”。水安全。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。