Restoring Ecosystems and Cities: Scientific and Ethical Issues

这项研究将考察科学、伦理和文化判断在评估自然和城市环境恢复方面的相互作用。修复已成为生态和城市政策的核心内容。然而，恢复的概念充满了模棱两可和相互矛盾的解释。这项拟议的研究由两位哲学家、一位生态学家、一位地理学家和一位城市规划师组成的跨学科团队进行，将检查和比较自然修复和城市修复带来的问题。调查人员将重点关注三个正在进行或计划中的修复项目：塞文河流域以及巴尔的摩的大理石山和屠宰山社区。他们将研究这些项目背后的不同的、有时是相互冲突的修复愿景，并更广泛地探索科学、历史和文化在评估修复项目和裁决它们所产生的冲突中的作用。调查人员将撰写一系列协调一致的论文，报告他们对修复问题的分析和对具体修复项目的研究。这些论文将被提交给公共、环境和城市政策杂志，并被收集成一本选集。

This study will examine the interplay of scientific, ethical, and cultural judgments in evaluating the restoration of natural and urban environments. Restoration has become a centerpiece of ecological and urban policy. Yet the concept of restoration is rife with ambiguities and conflicting interpretations. The proposed study, conducted by an interdisciplinary team of two philosophers, an ecologist, a geographer and an urban planner, will examine and compare the issues raised by natural and urban restoration. The investigators will focus on three areas where restoration projects are underway or being planned: the Severn River basin and the Baltimore neighborhoods of Marble Hill and Butcher's Hill. They will examine the diverse and sometimes conflicting visions of restoration that underlie these projects and, more broadly, explore the roles of science, history, and culture in evaluating restoration projects and adjudicating the conflicts they engender. The investigators will write a coordinated series of papers, reporting their analysis of restoration issues and their studies of specific restoration projects. These papers will be submitted to journals of public, environmental, and urban policy, and collected into an anthology.