SEES Fellows: Re-localization and Sustainability - Linking industrial and political ecology on Molokai and the Big Island, Hawaii

SEES 研究员：重新本地化和可持续性 - 将摩洛凯岛和夏威夷大岛的工业和政治生态联系起来

• 批准号: 1215762
• 负责人: Anjali Gupta
• 金额: $ 38.29万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1215762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SEES; Fellows; Re; localization; Sustainability

The study of sustainability, an inherently social and ecological concept, requires simultaneous consideration of social, economic, and environmental systems, the feedback loops between those systems, and the long-term viability of those systems. One approach to sustainability is "re-localization" - a movement to encourage sustainable production and consumption of food, energy and goods in the same geographic region. This research will integrate the approaches of industrial and political ecology to assess re-localization efforts in Hawaii, and their implications for sustainability. To determine whether and how re-localization is a viable pathway to sustainability, this project will examine the different ways in which re-localization is articulated, the conditions that enable or disable re-localization, and the ecological, cultural, and socio-economic effects of re-localization on the islands of Molokai and the Big Island within the Hawaiian Islands. The research will qualitatively examine the politics of re-localization, how are 'local' boundaries defined, whose interests are represented, and who wields the power to re-localize, as well as quantitatively measure baseline material flows and the material change that is precipitated by re-localization movements.This project will involve significant engagement among a variety of stakeholders, including academic researchers, government agencies, NGOs, and civic organizations, as well as educational opportunities via visits to local schools, mentoring of undergraduate students, and community forums. Findings from this project will elucidate potential spaces for collaboration between various demands for re-localization within the context of ensuring the sustainability of local communities. This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.

对可持续性的研究是一种固有的社会和生态概念，需要同时考虑社会，经济和环境系统，这些系统之间的反馈回路以及这些系统的长期可行性。可持续性的一种方法是“重新定位” - 鼓励同一地理区域中粮食，能源和商品的可持续生产和消费的运动。 这项研究将整合工业和政治生态学的方法，以评估夏威夷的重新定位工作及其对可持续性的影响。为了确定重新定位是否是通往可持续性的可行途径，该项目将研究重新定位的表达方式的不同方式，使或禁用重新定位的条件以及对Molokai及其夏威夷群岛内大岛群岛重新定位的生态，文化和社会经济作用。 这项研究将定性地检查重新定位的政治，如何定义“本地”边界，其利益是代表的，谁具有重新定位的能力，以及量化基线的材料流以及重新定位运动所促成的物质变化，这些项目将涉及各种各样的学术研究，包括各种研究，包括各种企业，包括各种企业，包括众多的私人研究，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约，纽约的社会竞争，包括私有企业，纽约，这些委托，私有的研究。以及通过访问当地学校，指导本科生和社区论坛的教育机会。 该项目的发现将阐明潜在的空间，以在确保当地社区的可持续性的背景下重新定位的各种要求之间进行协作。 该项目得到了NSF科学，工程和可持续性研究员教育（SEES Fellows）计划的支持，目的是帮助实现所需的发现，以告知导致环境，能源和社会可持续性的行动，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。 借助See Fellows的支持，该项目将使有前途的早期职业研究员能够在与可持续性有关的独立研究职业中建立自己。