HSD: Exploring the Determinants of Household Environmental Behavior

HSD：探索家庭环境行为的决定因素

• 批准号: 0729387
• 负责人: James Fraser
• 金额: $ 73.45万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0729387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSD; Exploring; Determinants; Household; Environmental

As cities become home to the majority of the world's population, understanding the factors that influence urban environmental behaviors is becoming increasingly important. Because most urban environmental pollution does not emanate from specific points but rather comes from broader areas, any attempt at mitigation will require an understanding of the factors that influence individual and institutional environmental decision making. Households impact water quality by choices made at the parcel level, including lawn and garden management, irrigation, fertilization, and pesticide application as well as by designing the features of their landscapes. The researchers undertaking this multidisciplinary research project will investigate spatial and social patterns and controls of residential lawn and garden management behavior in Baltimore, Maryland. They will examine how these environmental behaviors are spatially distributed and their relationship to neighborhood-level characteristics, including socioeconomics, biophysical attributes, and social dynamics related to the governance of land. In order to address these questions, the researchers will employ a mix of approaches drawn from the methods and insights of spatial ecosystem and social sciences, including the application of spatial statistics to household survey data and high-resolution, remotely sensed image analysis of residential patterns and parcel characteristics. These data will be assembled into a geographic information systems database, which will be analyzed to determine to what extent household versus neighborhood characteristics predict household environmental behavior. Interview and survey responses will complement this analysis by exploring the mechanisms through which these predictors operate.The research team represents a combination of social and biophysical scientists. The research project will intergrate perspectives and methods from ecohydrology and soil studies, remote sensing and land-use analysis, sociology, human geography, and economics. The project will contribute to the development of research and education capacity of the government agencies, nonprofits, and community-based organizations operating in the Baltimore metropolitan area and other urbanizing regions of the United States. The project will provide education and training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in several disciplines in the two universities. The investigators will focus explicitly on training, education, and capacity development of neighborhood-based organizations as vehicles to develop sustainable environmental lawn and garden care practices. The project will contribute to the development of environmental policy. Databases and models developed in the project will be useful for environmental policy planning and managing watershed stormwater and nutrient reduction and mitigation activities in a settings ranging from the heart of the city to exurban locales. The project investigators will collaborate within the existing Baltimore Long-Term Environmental Research team sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The investigators will disseminate findings more broadly through conference presentations as well as written materials geared toward diverse audiences, including scientists, government officials, and the general public. An award resulting from the FY 2007 NSF-wide competition on Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) supports this project. All NSF directorates and offices are involved in the coordinated management of the HSD competition and the portfolio of HSD awards.

随着城市成为世界大多数人口的家园，了解影响城市环境行为的因素变得越来越重要。 因为大多数城市环境污染不是从特定点出现的，而是来自更广泛的领域，因此任何缓解的尝试都将需要了解影响个人和机构环境决策的因素。 家庭通过在包裹级别做出的选择来影响水质，包括草坪和花园管理，灌溉，施肥和农药施用以及设计其景观特征。 从事这个多学科研究项目的研究人员将研究马里兰州巴尔的摩的住宅草坪和花园管理行为的空间和社会模式以及控制。 他们将研究这些环境行为是如何在空间分布的，以及它们与邻里层面特征的关系，包括社会经济学，生物物理属性以及与土地治理有关的社会动态。 为了解决这些问题，研究人员将采用从空间生态系统和社会科学的方法和见解中得出的方法，包括将空间统计数据应用于家庭调查数据和高分辨率，对住宅模式和包裹特征的远程感知的图像分析。 这些数据将组装到地理信息系统数据库中，该数据库将进行分析，以确定家庭与邻里特征在多大程度上预测家庭环境行为。 访谈和调查的回答将通过探索这些预测因素运行的机制来补充这一分析。研究团队代表了社会和生物物理科学家的结合。 该研究项目将与生态水文和土壤研究，遥感和土地利用分析，社会学，人类地理和经济学相互融合。 该项目将有助于在巴尔的摩大都会地区和美国其他城市化地区开展的政府机构，非营利组织和社区组织的研究和教育能力的发展。 该项目将为两所大学的几个学科的本科生和研究生提供教育和培训机会。 研究人员将明确专注于培训，教育和基于邻里的组织的能力发展，以开发可持续的环境草坪和花园护理实践。 该项目将有助于制定环境政策。 该项目中开发的数据库和模型将在环境政策规划以及管理雨水以及减少养分和减少营养活动的环境中有用。该项目调查人员将在现有的巴尔的摩现有长期环境研究团队中合作，由国家科学基金会赞助。 调查人员将通过会议演讲以及针对包括科学家，政府官员和公众在内的不同受众的书面材料更广泛地传播发现。 2007财年全民社会和社会动态竞赛（HSD）的奖项支持该项目。 所有NSF局和办公室都参与了HSD竞赛和HSD奖项组合的协调管理。