World Water: Case Studies in Research as a Redistributive Force in the Knowledge Society

世界水：知识社会中作为重新分配力量的研究案例研究

• 批准号: 0551777
• 负责人: Susan Cozzens
• 金额: $ 21.51万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-15 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0551777&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: World; Water; Case; Studies; Research

This project, funded by the Science and Society Program, seeks to address the question of how science and technology policies play a role in improving the quality or reducing the cost for a basic service. If such research for development is successful, it can lower costs and increase quality of life and can build technical capacity in developing countries, leaving them better prepared for endogenous innovation in the future. To explore how research for development lives up to these possibilities, this research studies the effect o international research efforts on an important development-related area, water supply and sanitation. The study examines case studies in Africa and Latin America. With help from an interdisciplinary advisory panel, the project examines case studies of water supply and sanitation projects that are using research results to help solve the problems of water supply and sanitation in developing countries. It will compare those projects with a preliminary model of effective international problem-oriented research programs, on dimensions of participation, effects, capacity, and public-private relationships. Potential users for the research results will be involved at the beginning, middle, and end of the project, to increase the impact of its results on international development practice. In order to build capacity in developing countries for innovation studies, several graduate students in Public Policy from developing countries will be employed in gathering case study data and the project will involve policy researchers from the case study regions. This award is co-funded by the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering, and by the NSF Environmental Engineering and Technology Program in the Bioengineering and Environmental Systems Division.

该项目由科学与社会计划资助，旨在解决科学技术政策如何在提高质量或降低基本服务成本中发挥作用的问题。 如果此类开发研究成功，它可以降低成本并提高生活质量，并可以在发展中国家建立技术能力，从而为未来的内源性创新做好准备。 为了探索开发研究如何实现这些可能性，这项研究研究了国际研究工作对重要发展相关的地区，供水和卫生的影响。 该研究检查了非洲和拉丁美洲的案例研究。 在跨学科咨询小组的帮助下，该项目研究了使用研究结果来帮助解决发展中国家供水问题的供水和卫生项目的案例研究。它将将这些项目与有效的国际面向问题的研究计划的初步模型，有关参与，效果，能力和公私关系的维度进行比较。研究结果的潜在用户将在项目的开始，中间和结束，以增加其成果对国际发展实践的影响。为了在发展中国家建立创新研究的能力，将利用发展中国家的几位公共政策研究生收集案例研究数据，该项目将涉及案例研究区域的政策研究人员。 该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程办公室以及生物工程与环境系统部的NSF环境工程和技术计划共同资助。