Collaborative Research: Socio-economic patterns, public perceptions, and climate vulnerabilities of water resources and quality

合作研究：社会经济模式、公众认知以及水资源和质量的气候脆弱性

• 批准号: 2127334
• 负责人: William D'Andrea
• 金额: $ 19.64万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2127334&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Socio; economic; patterns

Access to clean water is a fundamental requirement for a healthy society. Numerous water safety crises in the past decade have shown that access to safe drinking water is not a guarantee, however. Moreover, there is community- and individual-level heterogeneity in relative vulnerability to water problems. Individual characteristics are likely to affect perceptions of water, in turn affecting decisions surrounding water use and associated health outcomes. This project brings together an interdisciplinary team of scientists to examine social, behavioral, health, and climatic issues related to water resources. In addition to developing capacity at a minority-serving institution, the project advances undergraduate teaching and training through curricular development and hands-on research opportunities. The project tests social science theories positing that ecological and social factors work together to affect water and climate vulnerability. Research objectives include examining the influence of social, economic, and political factors in water quality remediation efforts in a context with contemporary and historical variation in deployment of such efforts; and providing an analytical framework transferable to other environmental remediation projects. To do so, this project documents perceptions of water among diverse stakeholders, and how these perceptions interact with individual and community characteristics. The project also analyzes and provides data to document the full range of climate variability to layer results within broader historical climatic fluctuations. Importantly, this climate history will provide context for the lived experiences of people in the region over space and time and allow improved modeling to anticipate future changes in precipitation and water access.This 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.

获得清洁水是健康社会的基本要求。然而，过去十年发生的众多水安全危机表明，获得安全饮用水并不能保证。此外，社区和个人层面对水问题的相对脆弱性存在异质性。个人特征可能会影响对水的看法，进而影响有关用水和相关健康结果的决策。该项目汇集了一个跨学科的科学家团队，研究与水资源相关的社会、行为、健康和气候问题。除了发展少数族裔服务机构的能力外，该项目还通过课程开发和实践研究机会推进本科生教学和培训。该项目测试了社会科学理论，假设生态和社会因素共同影响水和气候的脆弱性。研究目标包括在当代和历史的水质修复工作部署变化的背景下，研究社会、经济和政治因素对水质修复工作的影响；并提供可转移到其他环境修复项目的分析框架。为此，该项目记录了不同利益相关者对水的看法，以及这些看法如何与个人和社区特征相互作用。该项目还分析并提供数据来记录全方位的气候变化，以便在更广泛的历史气候波动中对结果进行分层。重要的是，这段气候历史将为该地区人们在空间和时间上的生活经历提供背景，并允许改进模型来预测降水和水获取的未来变化。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准。