Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Impact of Production and Consumption of Beef on Communities Along Beef Supply Chains

该项目将研究牛肉的生产和消费如何影响空气污染对牛肉生产社区的环境影响。该研究将衡量和分析牛肉生产在供应链中多个地点的影响，并评估包括企业、政府和非政府组织在内的利益相关者如何为牛肉生产的决策和过程做出贡献。从这项研究中获得的知识将为这些利益相关者提供知识，使他们能够做出有关牛肉生产的决策，从而减少受影响社区的环境负担。该研究提出了两个相互关联的问题：（1）空气污染和牛肉供应链的相关健康影响如何在当地社区中分布？以及（2）不同类型的治理过程如何导致不同的环境结果？这项研究将使用一种新的方法，将基于位置的生命周期评估方法与社会经济数据和社会网络分析相结合，以量化牛肉供应链每个阶段的空气质量影响和缓解干预措施。这项研究的结果将为可持续发展科学提供潜在的变革性方法，可广泛用于研究其他产品供应链的环境和社会影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will examine how the production and consumption of beef affects the environmental impacts of air pollution on communities that contribute to the production of beef. The research will measure and analyze the impacts of beef production at multiple locations in the supply chain, and assess how stakeholders including corporations, governments, and non-government organizations contribute to the decision-making and process in the production of beef. The knowledge gained from this research will provide these stakeholders knowledge that will enable decision-making about beef production that reduces environmental burdens on affected communities. The research asks two interrelated questions: (1) how is air pollution and related health impacts of the beef supply chains distributed among local communities? and (2) how do different types of governance processes lead to different environmental outcomes? This study will use a novel methodology that integrates location-based life cycle assessment methods with socio-economic data and social network analysis to quantify air quality impacts and mitigation interventions in each phase of the beef supply chain. The results of this research will provide potentially transformative methods to sustainability science that can be used broadly to study environmental and social impacts of other product supply chains.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.