Doctoral Dissertation Research: Ecologies of Water Governance

博士论文研究：水治理生态学

• 批准号: 1459359
• 负责人: William Mazzarella
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-01 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1459359&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Ecologies; Water

Water scarcity has been widely linked to political and economic instability. As new methods for water extraction, delivery, and management are explored and implemented, evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of water governance structures becomes critical to preventing water stress. This project, which trains a graduate student in how to conduct rigorous, empirically-grounded scientific fieldwork, explores how water governance unfolds on the ground, through formal and informal means, under conditions of increasing resource scarcity and growing population sizes. The lessons this research produces can be of value in deepening understanding of similar situations, especially in economies where agriculture is irrigation-dependent and where water access is stressed between the demands of a large urban population and the demands of an extensive irrigation-dependent agricultural sector.Maira Hayat, under the supervision of Dr. William Mazzarella of the University of Chicago, will explore water governance focusing on two locales: the drinking water market in an urban setting, and the public canal irrigation network in a village context. The research will take place in Pakistan, home to the world's largest contiguous irrigation network fed by the river Indus and its tributaries. Concentrated in the Punjab province, this network has roots in 19th century colonial policies aiming, in parallel, at increasing tax revenue from agricultural production, and 'settling' the region by converting the predominantly nomadic locals to sedentary agriculturalists. This research will deepen understanding of the relation between law and political economy; bureaucracies, markets and the intersection of knowledge and value regimes; and resource governance worldwide. It will contribute to analyses of law and economic life through charting the relation between economy and sovereignty, and contemporary water governance. This research will further understanding of the successes and failures of public irrigation, and enable policymakers to design better-informed policy, and help make policy less top-down at a time of extensive water-sector reform in many water-stressed contexts. This research combines fieldwork, interviews, focus groups, archival research, collection of oral histories, and legal textual analysis.

缺水与政治和经济不稳定已广泛联系在一起。随着探索和实施水的新方法，评估水治理结构的功效和有效性对于预防水压力至关重要。该项目训练研究生如何进行严格的，经验上的科学野外工作，探讨了在资源稀缺和人口增长的条件下，通过正式和非正式手段在地面上如何展开水治理。这项研究所产生的经验教训对于加深对类似情况的理解具有价值，尤其是在农业依赖灌溉依赖的经济体中，在大型城市人口的需求和广泛依赖灌溉农业部门的需求之间强调了水的需求，依赖于农业的农业部门。城市环境和在乡村环境下的公共运河灌溉网络。这项研究将在巴基斯坦举行，这是世界上印度河及其支流提供的世界上最大的连续灌溉网络的所在地。该网络集中在旁遮普省，源于19世纪的殖民政策，旨在同时通过将主要的游牧当地人转换为久坐的农业学家，从而增加农业生产中的税收收入，并“定居”该地区。 这项研究将加深对法律与政治经济学之间关系的理解。官僚机构，市场以及知识和价值制度的交集；和全球资源治理。它将通过绘制经济与主权之间的关系以及当代水治理的关系来促进法律和经济生活的分析。这项研究将进一步理解公共灌溉的成功和失败，并使决策者能够设计更有信息的政策，并在许多水力压力的环境中，在广泛的水业改革时，政策在大规模的自上而下。这项研究结合了现场工作，访谈，焦点小组，档案研究，口述历史的收集以及法律文本分析。