Healthy Waterways: Connecting communities locally and globally

健康水道：连接本地和全球社区

• 批准号: AH/P006000/1
• 负责人: David Whitley
• 金额: $ 11.21万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP006000%2F1
• 关键词: Healthy; Waterways; Connecting; communities; locally

This project stems from a current research project: AHRC Pathways to Understanding the Changing Climate: time and place in cultural learning about the environment. It takes what we have learnt about children's relationships with their dwelling places and how intercultural interchange influences that as a starting point for facilitating an ongoing pilot project in South Africa namely the Aller River Pilot Project (ARPP). The goal of the ARPP is to engage local communities in the rehabilitation of a local waterway that is crucial to the livelihoods of these communities. The project's main strategy for delivering this rehabilitation and sustained maintenance is to recruit, train and stipend a group of young people from communities along the river (the 'Eco Champs'). These young people will lead the rehabilitation through engaging the local community and the schools in the local community. Our input (PUCC FOF) will begin at the end of the first phase of the ARPP when the main rehabilitation work of the river will already have been completed. We will continue the work with the Eco Champ team and the eco clubs that they will have set up in schools in the community. We will use our method of child-led walking interviews to develop a cartogram of the communities and to identify what sorts of relationships the children in these urban settings along waterways have with their dwelling places. We will use this as the basis for the interchange element of our project. The interchange partner in the UK will be a group of young people in the Norfolk Broads called the Youth Rangers who will be working with the Broads Authority (BA) to reconnect with their local waterways. The participant-led walking interviews alongside a stakeholder consultation conference will be used to identify small scale infrastructure support to facilitate the sustainability of the rehabilitation work. The projected outcome of this project for the community in South Africa will be an explicit and consolidated sense of personal connection to dwelling places including local waterways and an enhancement of commitment to maintaining these in a state that will contribute to the health and wellbeing of the local communities that rely on it for sanitation. Similar (if less extensive) outcomes are projected for the Youth Rangers in the Norfolk Broads. We will measure our impact through the data gathered during the walks that will be completed at the beginning and the end of the project and we will also use the data gathered by the ARPP and BA to elaborate our understanding of how our intervention has impacted on the local community. Our work has the potential to contribute to the following Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing), Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), Goal 10 (reduced Inequality), Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and Goal 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). Examples of how this will be achieved are the improvement in health and sanitation and through the stronger social cohesion, enhanced commitment to community responsibility, effective local agency and a deepened sense of an explicit connection to place. This project will instigate collaboration between people in similar circumstances with regard to the role of water in their dwelling places. The partnerships created will have significant potential for the way in which locally affected communities respond to globally determined consequences of changing climates, in both the meteorological and socio-political sense. Moreover, this project extends the interdisciplinary collaboration between Education and Social Anthropology which will further the aims of the network for the Living with Environmental Change Initiative. Whilst this is not intended to be a research project we will be able to use the impacts of the project to elaborate our understanding of the relationships that children have with place and how global interchange affects that.

该项目源于当前的一个研究项目：AHRC理解气候变化的途径：文化环境学习中的时间和地点。它以我们所了解的儿童与其居住地的关系以及跨文化交流如何影响这种关系为出发点，促进南非正在进行的试点项目，即阿勒河试点项目（ARPP）。ARPP的目标是让当地社区参与到对这些社区生计至关重要的当地水道的修复中来。该项目的主要策略是提供这种恢复和持续维护，从沿河社区招募、培训和资助一群年轻人（“生态冠军”）。这些年轻人将通过参与当地社区和当地社区的学校来领导康复工作。我们的投入（PUCC FOF）将在ARPP第一阶段结束时开始，届时河流的主要修复工作已经完成。我们将继续与生态冠军团队和他们将在社区学校建立的生态俱乐部合作。我们将使用儿童主导的步行访谈方法来绘制社区地图，并确定这些沿河城市环境中的儿童与他们的居住地之间的关系。我们将使用它作为我们项目的交换元素的基础。英国的交换伙伴将是诺福克湖区的一群年轻人，他们被称为青年护林员，他们将与布罗德斯管理局（BA）合作，重新连接当地的水道。参与者主导的步行访谈以及利益相关者咨询会议将用于确定小型基础设施支持，以促进恢复工作的可持续性。这个项目对南非社区的预期结果将是一种明确和巩固的个人与住宅的联系感，包括当地的水道，并加强对维护这些地方的承诺，这将有助于当地社区的健康和福祉，这些社区依赖于它的卫生设施。类似的（如果不那么广泛）结果预计将出现在诺福克湿地的青年巡游者身上。我们将通过在项目开始和结束时收集的数据来衡量我们的影响，我们也将使用ARPP和BA收集的数据来阐述我们对我们的干预如何影响当地社区的理解。我们的工作有可能为以下可持续发展目标作出贡献：目标3（良好健康和福祉）、目标6（清洁水和卫生设施）、目标10（减少不平等）、目标11（可持续城市和社区）和目标17（实现目标的伙伴关系）。如何实现这一目标的例子是改善保健和卫生，并通过加强社会凝聚力、加强对社区责任的承诺、有效的地方机构和加深与地方的明确联系感。该项目将促使处于类似情况的人们就水在其住所中的作用进行合作。建立的伙伴关系将具有巨大的潜力，有助于受当地影响的社区在气象和社会政治意义上应对气候变化的全球决定后果。此外，该项目扩展了教育和社会人类学之间的跨学科合作，这将进一步推动环境变化倡议网络的目标。虽然这不是一个研究项目，但我们将能够利用项目的影响来阐述我们对儿童与地点之间关系的理解，以及全球交流如何影响这种关系。

项目成果

Over and under: children navigating terrain in the East Anglian fenlands

上下：孩子们在东盎格鲁芬兰的地形中航行

• DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2017.1344768
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Children's Geographies
• 作者: Irvine R