Dissertation Research: Storied Shores: Environment, Society, and Culture in Monterey, California

这篇论文的研究项目《海岸故事：加州蒙特利的环境、社会和文化》探讨了从19世纪末到20世纪80年代科学技术在蒙特利自然和社会塑造中的作用。《海岸故事》描绘了聚集在蒙特利的人们如何利用他们独特的社会和文化价值观来评估、设想和塑造自然环境。这项研究探索了蒙特利的物质变化如何反映和塑造人们使用和理解自然的方式。塑造自然的竞争加剧了现有的社会分歧，同时影响了个人如何从物理上改变他们的自然环境。此外，科学思想和技术体系帮助缓和了土地上的这些变化。在大自然中工作、玩耍和学习成为蒙特利海岸线上最突出的活动。因此，劳动、娱乐、科学和技术在蒙特利的自然和社会的形成中交织在一起。该项目建议通过研究自然、科学和技术的社会结构，并探索它们对蒙特利社会及其海岸线的影响和影响，来增加环境历史和科学技术研究的综合。该项目还将通过帮助对海洋环境感兴趣的科学家和规划者做出更直接的贡献。人类的政治、社会和经济活动以及科学技术的发展影响着自然界。这项研究旨在通过建立衡量人类对海岸线影响的历史基线，揭示这些影响，并为未来的研究提供重要信息。

This dissertation research project, "Storied Shores: Environment, Society and Culture in Monterey, California," explores the role of science and technology in the shaping of nature and society in Monterey from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. "Storied Shores" charts how the individuals who converged on Monterey used their particular social and cultural values to evaluate, envision, and mold the natural environment. The research explores how material changes to Monterey reflected and shaped how people used and understood nature. Contests over shaping nature sharpened existing social divisions while affecting how individuals physically changed their natural surroundings. Scientific ideas and technological systems, moreover, helped to moderate these changes in the land. Working, playing, and studying in nature became the most prominent activities on the Monterey coastline. Labor, recreation, science, and technology, therefore, intersected in the shaping of Monterey's nature and society. This project proposes to add to a growing synthesis of environmental history and science and technology studies by examining the social construction of nature, science, and technology and exploring their effects on and implications for Monterey society and its coastline. The project will also make a more immediate contribution by assisting scientists and planners interested in the marine environment. The political, social, and economic activities of humans and developments in science and technology affect the natural world. This research intends to bring these impacts to light and provide important information for future research by creating a historical baseline for measuring human impact on the coastline.