Doctoral Dissertation Research: Environmental Attitudes and Policy Formulation Associated with Rapid Energy-Related Development

博士论文研究：与能源相关快速发展相关的环境态度和政策制定

• 批准号: 1536201
• 负责人: Christian Brannstrom
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 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: 2015-08-01 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1536201&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Environmental; Attitudes

This doctoral dissertation research project will examine the political and economic context that determines how, when, and where discussions related to hydraulic fracturing are produced. Focusing specifically on North Dakota's Bakken Formation, the doctoral student will examine how everyday experiences of individuals who have resided in the region for at least five years influence the creation and understanding of written and spoken claims, arguments, and ideas. The student also will measure the effect of these discourses on the decision making of planners, local officials, and business leaders in regards to hydrocarbon extraction and economic development. The results of this project will contribute to theoretical discussions surrounding the production of scientific and lay knowledge and will provide new insights regarding the longer-term outcomes of boom and post-boom communities. Project results will be shared with municipal, industry, and non-governmental groups in North Dakota, and an online undergraduate instructional module will be created to expose science, technology, engineering, and mathematics students to societal impacts of technology development. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.Daily experiences with resource extraction influence how residents think, talk, and write about resources, but little is known about how knowledge of hydraulic fracturing is generated in areas undergoing "boom" conditions. During the conduct of this project, the doctoral student will use content analysis of oil and gas coverage in North Dakota newspapers as well as GIS visualization techniques to measure variation in land use and policy preferences among community leaders. Qualitative interviews will be conducted to gauge the opinions of longer-term residents regarding hydrocarbon-related development. Results from this project will contribute to theoretical and empirical literatures dealing with geographies of energy (particularly geographies of fossil fuel production), the formation of ideas and arguments in zones of extraction, and the social and cultural dimensions of hydraulic fracturing. Furthermore, this project will generate empirical data about activities and attitudes in the Bakken shale region, which has received scant attention in the social science literature compared to shale plays in Texas and Appalachia.

该博士论文研究项目将研究决定水力压裂相关讨论如何、何时、何地进行的政治和经济背景。 博士生将特别关注北达科他州的巴肯地层，研究在该地区居住至少五年的个人的日常经历如何影响书面和口头主张、论点和想法的创造和理解。 学生还将衡量这些论述对规划者、地方官员和商界领袖在碳氢化合物开采和经济发展方面的决策的影响。 该项目的结果将有助于围绕科学和非专业知识的产生进行理论讨论，并将提供有关繁荣和后繁荣社区的长期结果的新见解。 项目结果将与北达科他州的市政、工业和非政府团体分享，并将创建一个在线本科教学模块，让科学、技术、工程和数学学生了解技术发展的社会影响。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生建立强大的独立研究生涯提供支持。资源开采的日常经历会影响居民对资源的思考、谈论和写作，但人们对如何影响却知之甚少。关于水力压裂的知识是在经历“繁荣”状况的地区产生的。 在该项目的实施过程中，博士生将利用北达科他州报纸上石油和天然气报道的内容分析以及地理信息系统可视化技术来衡量社区领导人的土地利用和政策偏好的变化。 将进行定性访谈，以了解长期居民对碳氢化合物相关开发的看法。 该项目的结果将为涉及能源地理（特别是化石燃料生产地理）、开采区思想和论据的形成以及水力压裂的社会和文化维度的理论和实证文献做出贡献。 此外，该项目将生成有关巴肯页岩地区活动和态度的经验数据，与德克萨斯州和阿巴拉契亚的页岩区相比，该地区在社会科学文献中很少受到关注。