Healthy Waterways: Connecting communities locally and globally

该项目源于目前的一个研究项目：AHRC理解气候变化的途径：环境文化学习的时间和地点。它把我们所了解的儿童与其居住地的关系以及文化间交流如何影响这种关系作为促进南非正在进行的一个试点项目即阿勒河试点项目的出发点。ARPP的目标是让当地社区参与对这些社区的生计至关重要的当地水道的修复。该项目提供这种修复和持续维护的主要战略是从沿着社区（“生态冠军”）招募、培训和资助一批年轻人。这些年轻人将通过与当地社区和当地社区的学校接触来领导恢复工作。我们的投入（PUCC FOF）将在ARPP第一阶段结束时开始开始，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生态俱乐部的工作，他们将在社区的学校成立。我们将使用儿童引导的步行采访方法，绘制社区地图，并确定这些城市环境中的儿童与他们居住的地方有什么样的关系，沿着水道。我们将以此为基础，为我们的项目交换元素。在英国的交换伙伴将是一群年轻人在诺福克布罗德称为青年游骑兵谁将与布罗德管理局（BA）重新连接到他们当地的水道。参与者主导的步行访谈以及利益相关者协商会议将用于确定小规模的基础设施支持，以促进修复工作的可持续性。该项目对南非社区的预期成果将是明确和巩固个人与包括当地水道在内的居住地的联系，并加强对维护这些居住地的承诺，以促进当地社区的健康和福祉，因为当地社区依赖这些居住地提供卫生设施。类似的（如果不那么广泛）结果预计在诺福克布罗德的青年游骑兵。我们将通过在项目开始和结束时完成的步行过程中收集的数据来衡量我们的影响，我们还将使用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做出贡献：目标3（良好的健康和福祉），目标6（清洁水和卫生），目标10（减少不平等），目标11（可持续城市和社区）和目标17（目标的伙伴关系）。如何实现这一目标的例子是改善健康和卫生，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。该项目将鼓励处于类似情况的人们就水在其居住地的作用开展合作。所建立的伙伴关系将在当地受影响社区如何应对气候变化在气象和社会政治意义上的全球决定性后果方面具有巨大潜力。此外，该项目扩大了教育和社会人类学之间的跨学科合作，这将进一步推动与环境变化共存倡议网络的目标。虽然这不是一个研究项目，但我们将能够利用该项目的影响来阐述我们对儿童与地方的关系以及全球交流如何影响的理解。

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.