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

该项目研究了私有财产管理如何影响脱碳融资，技术开发以及公正和公平的低碳转型谈判。该研究分析了政府激励能源升级的计划，并调查了业主为什么在多户建筑中追求数字能源升级。该项目测试了公共气候融资理论，并提供了对建设基础设施变化的见解。越来越多的城市正在立法强制性建筑节能标准以遏制碳排放，了解各种多户物业使用权的能源升级决策的更广泛的社会过程有助于减缓气候变化的努力。本研究调查了政府，私人和公民行为者如何在遵守强制性建筑性能立法时协商公共，利润和道德财产利益，纽约市地方法97。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。该研究问：1）政府如何利用政策和融资机制来实施私人住宅建筑的基础设施变革？2)为什么数字技术成为实现能源升级的常用手段？它们如何影响多户建筑物的产权？能源决策在不同的私人土地保有权安排中有何不同？该研究采用定性方法，包括参与者观察、档案分析以及对低碳建筑领域专业人士、建筑业主、居民和工作人员的半结构化采访，来评估纽约市几栋多户住宅的能源升级项目--每栋住宅都有不同但共同的财产利益。通过对调查结果的系统综合，总结了私人多户住宅能源升级的决策结构，并确定了有关脱碳政策的公平和正义的经常性要求。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。

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.