Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Digital infrastructure for sustainable consumption

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：可持续消费的数字基础设施

• 批准号: 2323490
• 负责人: Jennifer Heung
• 金额: $ 33.42万
• 依托单位: Saint Mary's College of California
• 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: 2023-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2323490&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Digital

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will develop and employ new transdisciplinary approaches to address sustainable consumption and production as a socio-technical system to help inform decision-making for sustainable, resilient, and just systems of consumption and production.The Digital Infrastructure for Sustainable Consumption (DISCo) project seeks to produce both theoretically informed and practically oriented knowledge on how sustainable consumption (i.e., consumption that is less resource and carbon-intensive and/or less environmentally damaging) can be enabled through digital technologies. The team seeks to understand if digital technology can help close the gap between our intentions and actions (e.g., recycling, buying second hand, food waste diversion) when it comes to sustainability. The project team seeks to build upon existing research examining single app use and app use within a relatively homogenous community, to address three questions around (1) how digital technologies become part of our routines, (2) how digital technologies can interact with existing consumption patterns and (3) when do these technologies succeed in shifting behavior (i.e., under what conditions)? The project team will use methods from life cycle analysis and ethnography to better understand the impact of the proposed tech solutions. With the focus on food and mobility services the analyses will provide important information about changing behavior around transportation and food, both large portions of most individuals daily carbon consumption. The proposal team represents six countries (Sweden, Norway, Turkey, USA, and Japan) in related fields (sociology, communication, food and environmental sciences). The project’s overall approach stems from the range of fields employed and is organized into 5 work packages with interconnected research activities. Stakeholder involvement occurs throughout the project with societal partners participating in workshops and as part of the expert teams.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.

该奖项为参加一个由55个国家通过Belmont论坛进行全球变更研究的计划竞争性选择的项目提供了支持。 Belmont论坛是一个研究资助组织的财团，专注于支持全球环境变化挑战和机遇的跨学科方法。它的目的是加快迫切需要的国际研究的交付，以通过结盟和动员国际资源来消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个合作伙伴国家为财团内的研究人员提供资金，以减轻资金越过国际边界的需求。这种方法设施有效利用国家资源来支持关于全球相关性主题的出色研究，这是通过跨国方法来解决的，并认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员提供了支持，以在财团中合作，该公司由至少三个参与国家的合作伙伴组成。团队将开发并采用新的跨学科方法来解决可持续的消费和生产作为社会技术系统，以帮助为可持续，抵抗和公正的消费和生产系统提供决策，可持续消费的数字基础设施（DISCO）项目，既试图产生既有理论上的知识又不可持续的消费（既不是可持续的，又是既有的，又不是在理论上和实用的载荷（即，car and。可以通过数字技术实现损害）。该团队试图了解数字技术是否可以帮助弥合我们的意图和行动之间的差距（例如回收，购买二手，食物浪费转移）。该项目团队试图在相对同质社区中检查单个应用程序使用和应用程序的现有研究基础，以解决（1）数字技术如何成为我们日常工作的一部分，（2）数字技术如何与现有消费模式进行交互，以及（3）这些技术在转移行为（即在什么条件下）？项目团队将使用生命周期分析和民族志中的方法更好地了解拟议技术解决方案的影响。通过关注食品和流动服务，分析将提供有关运输和食物周围行为改变的重要信息，这是大多数人每天消耗碳的大部分。提案小组代表六个国家（瑞典，挪威，土耳其，美国和日本）在相关领域（社会学，传播，食品和环境科学）。该项目的整体方法距离使用的领域范围，并将其组织成5个与互连研究活动的工作包。利益相关者的参与在整个项目中都与参加研讨会的社会合作伙伴和专家团队的一部分进行。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。