The Emerging Commodity of Restored Streams: Science, Policy, and Econmics in New Markets for Ecosystem Service Commodities

恢复河流的新兴商品：生态系统服务商品新市场中的科学、政策和经济学

• 批准号: 0961551
• 负责人: Martin Doyle
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0961551&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emerging; Commodity; Restored; Streams; Science

The science and technology of stream restoration has matured alongside market-based strategies for environmental protection, and the two approaches are combined in the emerging stream mitigation banking industry. Stream mitigation banking allows developers to offset stream impacts by purchasing restoration "credits" produced by for-profit companies, essentially creating a market in stream ecosystems. Assuring the quality and quantity of impacted and restored streams, which is required by both market and regulation, is a task of measurement that has drawn scientists into emerging ecosystem markets. More generally, stream mitigation is a manifestation of ecosystem markets in their infancy, such as carbon trading. This research project will examine the application of science, policy, and markets at stream mitigation bank sites by fully leveraging mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. The investigators will combine field and modeling studies of hydrogeomorphic processes; interviews with scientists, regulators, and entrepreneurs; and historical and archival research to fully document and understand the practice of stream mitigation banking. Their ultimate goal is to understand how policy, science, and markets interact to leave a distinct imprint on the landscape. This research will draw on sophisticated theory and methods in very divergent branches of geography and related fields in the geosciences and social sciences to inform a vital environmental policy issue.This project will shed light on the new paradigm of using markets for environmental management. Theory derived from this project will be scalable and transferable (with appropriate modification) to emerging environmental markets in other locales and other phenomena, such as carbon trading, water quality trading, and endangered species habitat conservation banks. Because the stream mitigation banking industry is relatively young, this project also can inform practical policy and processes. In addition to benefitting researchers and students directly involved in this project, it will help to build the growing community of interdisciplinary scholars through a joint university short-course program.

流恢复的科学和技术已经与基于市场的环境保护策略一起成熟，两种方法在新兴的溪流缓解银行业中结合在一起。 流量缓解银行业务使开发人员可以通过购买营利性公司生产的修复“信用”来抵消流的影响，从而基本上在流生态系统中创造了一个市场。 确保受影响和恢复流的质量和数量，这是市场和监管所要求的，这是一项测量的任务，它吸引了科学家进入新兴的生态系统市场。 更一般而言，流媒体缓解是其婴儿期生态系统市场的一种体现，例如碳交易。 该研究项目将通过充分利用混合定量和定性方法来研究科学，政策和市场在溪流缓解库站点的应用。 研究人员将结合水晶过程的现场和建模研究；与科学家，监管机构和企业家的访谈；以及历史和档案研究，以充分记录和了解溪流缓解银行的实践。 他们的最终目标是了解政策，科学和市场如何相互作用，以在景观上留下独特的烙印。 这项研究将借鉴地理学和社会科学中地理和相关领域的非常不同的分支中的复杂理论和方法，以告知至关重要的环境政策问题。该项目将揭示使用环境管理市场的新范式。 从该项目得出的理论将是可扩展的，可转让（适当的修改），以向其他地区和其他现象的新兴环境市场，例如碳贸易，水质贸易和濒危物种栖息地保护银行。 由于流媒体缓解银行业相对年轻，因此该项目也可以为实际的政策和流程提供信息。 除了使直接参与该项目的研究人员和学生受益外，它将通过联合大学短途课程有助于建立不断增长的跨学科学者社区。