Doctoral Dissertation Research: Land Reclamation, Urbanization, and Infrastructural Development

博士论文研究：土地复垦、城市化与基础设施发展

• 批准号: 1948885
• 负责人: Erik Harms
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-15 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Land; Reclamation

Land reclamation is increasingly being relied upon by coastal cities responding to the pressures of intensified urbanization. While there is a long history of human settlements reclaiming land from water bodies to generate more habitable area for human activity, reclamation is no longer limited to smaller scale draining of swamps or the infilling of lakes and rivers to facilitate industry and agriculture. As more cities are reclaiming land from the sea in an effort to solve the problem of land scarcity, how is the relationship between human beings and the natural and built environment being reshaped and negotiated? In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project would enhance scientific understanding by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations with the aim of improving understanding how reclamation has altered physical landscapes and social relations. The project will produce data critical for those developing policies and urban planning strategies that can address the environmental and social costs associated with reclamation. The research will be conducted in a municipality that has reclaimed substantial portions of its current land area and plans to continue accruing more land space through a variety of technological methods. The city's willingness to engage in the latest technology to facilitate its terraforming activities also provides a window into understanding the sophistication and the scale of contemporary reclamation projects. The researcher will study ecologists who have been tasked with the undertaking of restoring mangroves that were decimated in the wake of reclamation to examine how landscapes are created, managed, and in some cases, restored. Furthermore, the study will inquire into the subjectivities of residents to determine whether certain social groups have benefited more or incurred more losses from reclamation over others. The researcher will conduct participant observation, semi-structured interviews, oral histories, and archival fieldwork to collect relevant data. Findings from this research will provide insight for policy makers and urban planners by broadening the technological focus of reclamation to include the social, cultural, and environmental dimensionsThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

沿海城市越来越依靠土地开垦，以应对不断增强的城市化压力。尽管人类定居点的悠久历史悠久，从水体上恢复土地以产生更宜居的人类活动区域，但填海不再限于较小的沼泽排水或填充湖泊和河流的缩小，以促进工业和农业。随着越来越多的城市正在从海上收回土地以解决土地稀缺问题，人类与自然和建筑环境之间的关系如何重塑和谈判？除了为在经验，科学数据收集和分析方法中培训人类学研究生的资金外，该项目还将通过将其发现广泛传播给组​​织来增强科学理解，以改善理解如何改变填海化的物理环境和社会关系。该项目将为那些制定政策和城市规划策略的人提供至关重要的数据，这些策略可以解决与开垦相关的环境和社会成本。 这项研究将在一个市政当局进行，该市已收回当前土地地区的大部分地区，并计划通过各种技术方法继续计算更多的土地空间。该市愿意从事最新技术以促进其地形活动，这也为理解当代开垦项目的复杂性和规模提供了一个窗口。研究人员将研究受到恢复红树林的任务的生态学家，这些红树林在开垦后被删除，以检查如何创建，管理和在某些情况下恢复景观。此外，该研究将询问居民的主观性，以确定某些社会群体是否受益或从填海中造成的损失更多。研究人员将进行参与者的观察，半结构化访谈，口述历史和档案工作，以收集相关数据。这项研究的结果将通过扩大填海的技术重点，包括社会，文化和环境方面的技术重点来为政策制定者和城市规划师提供见识，这些奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。