HSD: Collaborative Research: Interdisciplinary Research and Methods for Assessing Dams as Agents of Change in China

HSD：合作研究：评估大坝作为中国变革推动者的跨学科研究和方法

• 批准号: 0826752
• 负责人: Desiree Tullos
• 金额: $ 49.5万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 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: 2008-10-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0826752&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSD; Collaborative; Research; Interdisciplinary; Methods

To sustainably meet the simultaneous and growing demands for water, energy, and environmental quality while protecting the welfare and tradition of affected communities, a broader view of dams is needed. To address this need, this interdisciplinary research project will apply a new tool for evaluating the relative costs and benefits of dam construction based on multi-objective planning techniques. The Integrative Dam Assessment Modeling (IDAM) tool is designed to integrate biophysical, socioeconomic, and geopolitical perspectives into a single cost/benefit analysis of dam construction. Each of 27 different impacts of dam construction will be evaluated both objectively (e.g., flood protection) and subjectively (i.e., the valuation of said flood protection) by a team of decision makers. By providing a visual representation of the costs and benefits associated with two or more dams, the IDAM tool will allow decision makers to evaluate alternatives and to articulate priorities associated with a dam project, making the decision process more informed and more transparent. The IDAM tool will be an evolutionary step in dam evaluation. Coupled with event chronologies and hotspot mapping of conflicts, household surveys, public-participatory geographic information systems, and hydrologic modeling, the proposed process will be used to investigate hypotheses regarding the assessment, minimization, and distribution of hydropower impacts across cultural and organizational levels and to engage stakeholders in the design process through a decision theater.Significant intellectual contributions of this project will include the use of a uniquely multidisciplinary, integrative model to understand the effects of dams through a controlled study of a complex social and environmental system in China. The project will make several pragmatic contributions related to policy and decision making through disciplinary and interdisciplinary investigation. The project therefore will increase understanding about the interplay of multiple impacts of dam construction in a variety of geographic contexts. Because this collaborative effort will includes opportunities for research in undergraduate institutions, this project will support high-quality research by faculty members at two undergraduate institutions and encourage the integration of research and education. Substantial coordination and capacity building will occur across organizations, levels of experience, and disciplines. A broad dissemination strategy is aimed at strengthening research, teaching, and public outreach about society environment interactions in the U.S., Asia, and elsewhere. Finally, this decision-support process will yield both new knowledge and accessible tools for improving institutions' ability to manage the social and environmental dynamics associated with dams as agents of change. An award resulting from the FY 2008 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.

为了可持续地满足对水，能源和环境质量的同时和不断增长的需求，同时保护受影响社区的福利和传统，需要对大坝的更广泛的看法。 为了满足这一需求，该跨学科研究项目将采用一种新工具来评估基于多目标计划技术的大坝建设的相对成本和收益。综合大坝评估建模（IDAM）工具旨在将生物物理，社会经济和地缘政治观点整合到大坝建设的单一成本/收益分析中。 一个决策者团队将对27种不同的大坝建设影响（例如，洪水保护）和主观（即上述洪水保护的估值）进行客观评估。 通过提供与两个或多个大坝相关的成本和收益的视觉表示，IDAM工具将使决策者能够评估替代方案并阐明与大坝项目相关的优先级，从而使决策过程更加知识和更透明。 IDAM工具将是大坝评估的进化步骤。 再加上事件的时间表和冲突的热点图，家庭调查，公共参与性的地理信息系统和水文建模，将使用拟议的过程来调查有关评估，最小化和分布的假设，从而使水中的分布在跨文化和组织中涉及该计划的构成依据的构成范围，以促进该计划的依据。多学科的综合模型，通过对中国复杂的社会和环境体系的对照研究来了解大坝的影响。 该项目将通过纪律和跨学科调查做出与政策和决策有关的一些务实贡献。 因此，该项目将提高人们对在各种地理环境中大坝构造对多种影响的相互作用的了解。 因为这项合作的努力将包括在本科机构中进行研究的机会，所以该项目将支持两家本科机构的教职员工的高质量研究，并鼓励研究和教育的整合。 实质性的协调和能力建设将在组织，经验水平和学科之间进行。 广泛的传播策略旨在加强有关美国，亚洲和其他地方的社会环境互动的研究，教学和公众宣传。 最后，这个决策支持过程将产生新的知识和可访问的工具，以提高机构管理与大坝相关的社会和环境动态的能力。 2008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。