Doctoral Dissertation Research: Retro-fix? Urban Climate Finance and Digital Decarbonization in Multi-family Housing

这个项目考察了私人物业管理如何影响脱碳融资、技术开发以及公正和公平的低碳过渡谈判。该审查分析了政府激励能源升级的计划，并调查了为什么业主在多户建筑中追求数字能源升级。该项目检验了公共气候融资理论，并为建筑基础设施的变化提供了洞察力。越来越多的城市正在立法强制建筑节能标准以遏制碳排放，了解跨各种多户房产所有权的能源升级决策的更广泛的社会过程有助于为气候缓解努力提供知识。这项研究调查了政府、私人和公民行为者在遵守纽约市强制性建筑性能立法当地第97号法律时如何协商公共、利润和道德财产利益。其目的是了解为什么多户建筑业主选择安装数字能源升级，以及数字能源系统如何影响业主、居民、员工和政府行为者的利益。这项研究的问题是：1)政府如何利用政策和融资机制在私人拥有的住宅建筑中实施基础设施变革？2)为什么数字技术成为提供能源升级的常见手段？它们如何影响多户建筑中的财产利益？以及3)不同私人土地保有权安排的能源决策有何不同？这项研究采用定性的方法，包括参与者观察、档案分析和对低碳建筑领域的专业人士、建筑业主、居民和工作人员的半结构化访谈，以评估纽约市几个多户住宅建筑的能源升级项目-每个建筑都有不同但共同的财产利益束。通过系统地综合研究结果，这项研究总结了私人多户住宅能源升级的决策结构，并确定了关于脱碳政策的反复公平和正义主张。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project examines how private property management influences decarbonization finance, technology development, and the negotiation of just and equitable low-carbon transitions. The examination analyzes government programs for incentivizing energy upgrades and investigates why owners pursue digital energy upgrades in multi-family buildings. The project tests public climate finance theories and provides insight into building infrastructure change. Increasingly, cities are legislating mandatory building energy performance standards to curb carbon emissions, and understanding the broader social processes of energy upgrade decision-making across various multi-family property tenures contributes knowledge toward climate mitigation efforts.This research investigates how government, private, and civic actors negotiate public, profit, and ethical property interests as they comply with mandatory building performance legislation, Local Law 97, in New York City. The aim is to understand why multi-family building owners choose to install digital energy upgrades and how digital energy systems impact the interests of owners, residents, staff, and government actors. The research asks: 1) How do governments use policy and financing mechanisms to operationalize infrastructure change in privately-owned residential buildings?; 2) Why have digital technologies emerged as a common means to deliver energy upgrades? How do they impact property interests in multi-family buildings?; and 3) How do energy decision-making differ across private land tenure arrangements? The study uses qualitative methods, including participant observation, archival analysis, and semi-structured interviews with professionals in the low-carbon buildings sector, building owners, residents, and staff, to assess energy upgrade projects in several NYC multi-family residential buildings - each with a distinct but common bundle of property interests. Through systematic syntheses of the findings, the research summarizes decision-making structures of energy upgrades in private multi-family housing and identifies recurrent claims to equity and justice regarding decarbonization policies.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.