Doctoral Dissertation Research: Developing Climate Resilience in At-Risk Societies

博士论文研究：发展高危社会的气候适应能力

• 批准号: 1424295
• 负责人: Joao Biehl
• 金额: $ 1.67万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1424295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Developing; Climate

There is a new but growing international effort to help vulnerable populations adapt to the effects of climate change. In the United States and abroad, policy increasingly has emphasized the promotion of "resilience." But uncertainty remains over what climate resilience actually entails and how its success can be measured. Large pledges have been made by developed countries to promote climate adaptation in developing ones. As a result, multilateral agencies are seeking to foster the institutions and expertise needed to make climate resilience a reality. These efforts signal a shift in development priorities which may prove consequential in the decades to come. As one of several developing nations currently being targeted by climate-driven interventions, Tajikistan offers the opportunity for a valuable case study to explore the efficacy of development policies that target climate effects directly. Lessons learned can have wide applicability. Therefore, Princeton University doctoral student, Igor Rubinov, advised by Dr. Joao G. Biehl, will undertake research in Tajikistan to assess the impact of climate-focused development policies on vulnerable populations. Supporting this project is part of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program's portfolio of projects that contribute to the national well-being through research on the resilience and robustness of climate-stressed socio-ecological systems. By focusing on a single World Bank-funded water-resources development project being enacted on the largest river in Central Asia, the researcher will explore how international development practices, state-level resource management, and local adaptation capacities come together. He will employ a mixed-methods strategy, gathering data from implementers, stakeholders, and end users through interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and the collection of GIS data and social mapping. He will compare the practices of development experts in the capital, state planners in the regional center, and rural villagers who must incorporate the international imperatives into their livelihood strategies. The aim is to gauge the effectiveness of institutions working to enhance socioeconomic well-being by raising the adaptive capacity of local people. Ultimately, the goal is to understand the impact of global policy objectives on the local populations who are being asked to adapt. The research will also contribute to building more general understanding of what resilience entails and how it relates to other processes such as globalization.

有一种新的但日益增长的国际努力，以帮助脆弱的人口适应气候变化的影响。在美国和国外，政策越来越强调促进“弹性”。但是，在气候弹性实际上需要什么以及如何衡量其成功的情况下仍然存在不确定性。发达国家已经提出了大量承诺，以促进发展中国家的气候适应。结果，多边机构正在寻求促进使气候弹性成为现实所需的机构和专业知识。这些努力表明，发展优先级的转变，这可能在未来几十年中证明是结果。作为目前以气候驱动干预措施为目标的几个发展中国家之一，塔吉克斯坦为有价值的案例研究提供了机会，以探索直接针对气候效应的发展政策的功效。经验教训可以具有广泛的适用性。因此，普林斯顿大学博士生伊戈尔·鲁比诺夫（Igor Rubinov）由Joao G. Biehl博士的建议，将在塔吉克斯坦进行研究，以评估以气候为中心的发展政策对弱势群体的影响。支持该项目是NSF文化人类学计划的项目组合的一部分，这些项目通过研究气候压力社会生态系统的韧性和鲁棒性来为国家福祉做出贡献。通过专注于在中亚最大的河流上制定的单一世界银行资助的水资源开发项目，研究人员将探讨国际发展实践，州级资源管理和当地适应能力如何聚集在一起。他将采用混合方法策略，通过访谈，焦点小组，参与者观察以及GIS数据和社交映射收集实施者，利益相关者和最终用户的数据。他将比较必须将国际要求纳入其生计策略的乡村村民的首都，国家规划师的发展实践。目的是衡量旨在通过提高当地人民的适应能力来增强社会经济福祉的机构的有效性。 最终，目标是了解全球政策目标对被要求适应的当地人群的影响。这项研究还将有助于建立对弹性及其与其他过程（例如全球化）的关系的更一般的了解。