Doctoral Dissertation Research: Global Financial Market Practices in Urban Resilience Planning

这个项目调查与环境变化性风险相关的不断变化的金融市场做法如何影响城市和居住在其中的人。这项研究将对理解塑造城市如何应对不断变化的环境的金融驱动因素做出重大贡献。这项工作将加强对受这些增加的环境风险影响的城市中负担不起的洪水保险、财产贬值和政府管理的影响的了解。了解这些不断变化的做法对城市生活的影响对于创建公平和有效的城市治理至关重要。该项目的成果将在开放获取的文章中传播，供公众使用，该项目将支持博士研究生的培训。本研究采用专家访谈、民族志观察和文献分析相结合的方法，考察金融市场实践的变化在城市复原力规划中的作用。这项研究将在沿海城市进行，这些城市已经经历了环境变化的影响，并且已经建立了弹性联系。调查人员将回答的具体研究问题包括：(1)环境变化给关键的金融市场参与者带来了什么样的问题(S)，他们如何在实践中解决这些问题？(2)这些做法如何为政府采取弹性行动提供信息？(3)市场驱动的行动可能如何影响居民未来提出金融索赔的能力？该项目为世界各地社会面临的两个日益普遍的当代问题提供了一个新的视角：如何为城市复原力提供资金，以及不断变化的风险评级做法如何造成城市不平等和不平衡的社会和环境结果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project investigates how changing financial market practices associated with environmental variability risks impact cities and those who live in them. The research will make significant contributions to an understanding of the financial drivers that shape how cities respond to a changing environment. The work will enhance knowledge of the impact of unaffordable flood insurance, property devaluation, and governmental management in cities impacted by these increased environmental risks. Understanding the impact of these changing practices on urban life is critical for creating equitable and effective urban governance. Findings from this project will be disseminated in open-access articles for public use and the project will support the training of doctoral student. This research uses an integration of expert interviews, ethnographic observation, and documentary analysis to examine the role of changing financial market practices in urban resilience planning. The research will be conducted in coastal cities that are already experiencing the effects of a changing environment and that have put into place resilience bonds. Specific research questions that the investigators will answer include: (1) What kind of problem(s) does environmental variability pose to key financial market actors, and how do they address these problems in their practices?; (2) How do these practices inform governmental action on resilience?; and (3) How might market-driven action impact residents’ ability to make financial claims in the future? This project offers a novel perspective on two increasingly pervasive contemporary problems that face societies around the world: how to finance urban resilience, and how changing risk rating practices create urban inequalities and uneven social and environmental outcomes.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.