Doctoral Dissertation Research: Governing Sediment: An Institutional Geography of Land Use and the Environment in the North Coastal Basin of California

博士论文研究：治理沉积物：加利福尼亚州北海岸盆地土地利用和环境的制度地理学

• 批准号: 0802756
• 负责人: Richard Norgaard
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-15 至 2009-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0802756&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Governing; Sediment

Over the last three decades, the migration of urban and suburban dwellers into rural areas of the United States has dramatically transformed the rural landscape. This migration places development pressure on forested, agricultural, and wildlands and has led to the subdivision of large tracts of land into smaller parcels, which complicates environmental management. The challenge of controlling non-point source (NPS) pollution from rural private lands is of particular importance, because regulators and watershed managers face the task of developing new governance strategies that are effective for influencing the land-management practices of a large number of diverse landowners and land users. This doctoral dissertation research project will address this governance challenge by investigating if and how regulations and non-regulatory programs directly and indirectly promote the prevention and control of sediment (a common NPS pollutant) from private roads on residential, ranch, and timberlands in the North Coastal basin of California. The doctoral candidate will use an institutional analysis approach that explicitly acknowledges that the legal regulations ("rules in form") often differ from what happens on the ground ("rules in use"). One source of information will be in-depth interviews with key landowners, people associated with non-governmental organizations, and staff at government agencies. That information will be complemented by, a large mail survey of landowners, site visits, and archival research in order to provide data on the structural, environmental, and sociopolitical factors that reinforce differences in the ways people manage their land and that may influence the potential for transferring successful programs to different regions. The investigators expect to demonstrate that the logistical challenges of enforcing existing NPS regulations limit the potential for regulatory solutions, making it important to identify and invest in other social and cultural factors that influence the actual land-management practices on private lands.This research project will investigate the multiple factors that influence the effectiveness of regulatory and non-regulatory programs reducing NPS pollution and addressing other complex socioecological problems on private lands. It will provide agencies and environmental non-profit organizations with much needed information about on-the-ground-management practices of various groups of landowners and the efficacy of existing outreach programs. More broadly, the research will help regulators and land managers throughout the United States build effective strategies for influencing land-management practices on rural private lands where ownership and use is becoming increasingly diverse. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

在过去的三十年中，城市和郊区居民向美国农村地区的迁移极大地改变了农村面貌。 这种迁移给森林、农业和荒地带来了发展压力，并导致大片土地被细分为更小的地块，从而使环境管理变得更加复杂。 控制农村私有土地的面源（NPS）污染的挑战尤为重要，因为监管机构和流域管理者面临着制定新的治理战略的任务，这些战略可以有效影响大量不同群体的土地管理实践。土地所有者和土地使用者。 本博士论文研究项目将通过调查监管和非监管计划是否以及如何直接和间接促进北部住宅、牧场和林地私人道路沉积物（一种常见的 NPS 污染物）的预防和控制来解决这一治理挑战加利福尼亚州沿海盆地。 博士生将使用制度分析方法，明确承认法律法规（“形式规则”）通常与实际情况（“使用规则”）不同。 信息来源之一是对主要土地所有者、非政府组织相关人员以及政府机构工作人员的深入访谈。 这些信息将得到对土地所有者的大型邮件调查、实地考察和档案研究的补充，以提供有关结构、环境和社会政治因素的数据，这些因素加剧了人们管理土地方式的差异，并可能影响潜力。将成功的项目转移到不同地区。 研究人员希望证明，执行现有核动力源法规的后勤挑战限制了监管解决方案的潜力，因此识别和投资影响私人土地实际土地管理实践的其他社会和文化因素非常重要。该研究项目将调查影响减少核动力源污染和解决私人土地上其他复杂社会生态问题的监管和非监管计划有效性的多种因素。 它将向各机构和非营利环境组织提供急需的有关不同土地所有者群体的实地管理实践以及现有推广计划的有效性的信息。 更广泛地说，这项研究将帮助美国各地的监管机构和土地管理者制定有效的战略，以影响所有权和使用日益多样化的农村私人土地的土地管理实践。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生建立强大的独立研究生涯提供支持。