Environmental Health Governance in Six Cities: How Scientific Cultures, Practices and Infrastructure Shape Governance Styles

本项目将侧重于了解和解决六个城市长期暴露于交通相关空气污染对健康的影响：奥尔巴尼、纽约市、费城、休斯顿、北京和班加罗尔。在所研究的每个城市，项目研究人员将审查科学在四个治理领域的运作和使用情况：环境、卫生、交通和教育。他们将探索这些不同领域是如何相互关联的，他们将绘制治理中使用的科学证据的来源，如何评估这些来源，并将其转化为政策和规划。他们还将记录和分析产生用于治理的发现的科学基础设施，参与解释科学发现的利益相关者的多样性，以及在不同环境中形成科学知识的创造和使用的不同文化逻辑。人种学访谈将是数据收集的主要手段，辅以对科学出版物、政策辩论和媒体报道的分析。项目的最后阶段将产生建议，这些建议将在项目所研究的所有城市和国家的决策者、记者和其他利益攸关方中积极传播。项目成果也将转化为k -本科学生的课程，使用由RPI的EcoEd研究小组开发的技术和基础设施。这个项目是一个正在进行的项目的创新延伸，哮喘文件项目。为正在进行的项目建立的数字平台将支持参与新项目的研究人员（包括学生研究人员）之间的合作。此外，每个城市将有一所实地学校向学生传授项目的方法。该项目的目的是促进对科学能力发展和在治理中使用的不同方式的理解，研究环境卫生研究和治理是如何发展的。该项目将产生一个理论健全、以经验为基础的环境卫生研究和治理风格概念，详细说明和分类开发环境卫生数据的不同方法，推进环境和健康科学，并将这些方法用于复杂问题的治理。它将通过解决科学文化、实践和基础设施如何塑造治理过程和结果来扩展治理的理论化；它将测试和稳定支持科学社会研究合作研究所需的过程和网络基础设施。项目结果将对改善治理制度之间（跨规模和国家之间）合作的努力产生广泛影响；这种合作在解决空气污染等复杂的、往往是跨界的问题方面尤为重要，这些问题需要更高水平的合作和分享技术、数据和有效的政策设计。

General Audience Summary This project will focus on efforts to understand and address the health effects of long term exposure to transportation-related air pollution in six cities: Albany, New York City, Philadelphia, Houston, Beijing, and Bengalura. In each city studied, project researchers will examine the operation and use of science in four arenas of governance: environment, health, transportation and education. They will explore how these different arenas interrelate, and they will map the sources of scientific evidence used in governance, how these sources are evaluated, and translated into policy and programming. They will also document and analyze the scientific infrastructures that produced the findings used in governance, the diversity of stakeholders involved in interpreting scientific findings, and diverse cultural logics that shape the creation and use of scientific knowledge in different settings. Ethnographic interviews will be the primary means of data collection, supplemented by analyses of scientific publications, policy debates, and media coverage. The final stage of the project will result in recommendations that will be actively disseminated among policy makers, journalists and other stakeholders in all cities and countries studied in the project. Project results will also be translated into curriculum for K-undergraduate students, using the techniques and infrastructure developed by RPI's EcoEd Research Group.Technical Summary This project is an innovative extension of an ongoing project, The Asthma Files project. The digital platform built for the ongoing project will support collaboration among researchers (including student researchers) involved in the new project. In addition, there will be in each city a field school to teach the project's methods to students. The aim of the project is to advance understanding of different ways scientific capacity is developed and used in governance, examining how environmental health research and governance has developed. The project will result in a theoretically robust, empirically grounded conception of environmental health research and governance styles, detailing and categorizing different ways of developing environmental health data, advancing the sciences of environment and health, and directing these toward governance of complex problems. It will extend theorization of governance by addressing how scientific cultures, practices, and infrastructure shape governance processes and outcomes; and it will test and stabilize the process and cyberinfrastructure needed to support collaborative research in the social studies of science. Project results will have wide implications in efforts to improve collaboration between governance regimes (across scale, and between nations); such collaboration is particularly important in addressing complex, often trans-boundary problems like air pollution, which call for new levels of cooperation and sharing of technology, data, and effective policy design.