Doctoral Dissertation Research: Anticipation, Catastrophic Flooding, and Canal Infrastructure in Urban Coastal Settings

博士论文研究：城市沿海环境中的预测、灾难性洪水和运河基础设施

• 批准号: 2148871
• 负责人: Audra Simpson
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2148871&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Anticipation; Catastrophic

Flood risks are a chronic concern for many coastal inhabitants, and considerable effort may be invested to mitigate those risks. In many settings, however, projected future flood risks are sufficiently great that infrastructural mitigation strategies are limited. In such settings, how do residents and other stakeholders adapt to the prospect of rapid coastal change? This dissertation research examines the social, political, and material effects of planning for flood events and climate change for coastal urban waterways. Using a complement of anthropological methods, the project investigates the varied questions and possibilities around flooding faced by governments and communities as they consider adjusting life in places that are already challenged by toxic waters, constrained infrastructure, and concretized landscapes. In attending to concerns around urban flood risk management, this project also contributes to a greater understanding of the promises and challenges of infrastructure development and expansion. The research supports the training of a graduate student in methods of empirical data collection and analysis, and results are disseminated widely through academic and non-academic avenues, including to organizations concerned with environmental politics and policies.This research brings together scholarship in anthropologies of the environment and infrastructure, critical indigenous and settler colonial studies, and anthropologies of climate change and crisis, to examine how people imagine, anticipate, and call upon diverse possibilities in remaking coastal landscapes. The researcher examines how water and infrastructure are understood, managed, and acted upon as part of these challenges and the ethics, politics, and knowledge that are revealed as the multifaceted threats of climate change confront the present formation and continued existence of coastal landscapes. The research design includes the use of participant observation, interviews, life histories, discourse analysis, and archival research to examine processes of change and efforts to respond in anticipation of possible catastrophes. The resulting findings allow for greater understandings of social and economic adaptations to coastal flood risks in urban settings.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.

洪水风险是许多沿海居民长期关注的问题，并且可能会投入大量精力来减轻这些风险。然而，在许多情况下，预计未来的洪水风险非常大，以至于基础设施缓解策略受到限制。在这种情况下，居民和其他利益相关者如何适应沿海快速变化的前景？本论文研究探讨了沿海城市水道洪水事件和气候变化规划的社会、政治和物质影响。该项目利用人类学方法的补充，调查了政府和社区在考虑调整已经受到有毒水、有限基础设施和混凝土景观挑战的地区的生活时所面临的各种关于洪水的问题和可能性。在关注城市洪水风险管理方面，该项目还有助于更好地了解基础设施开发和扩建的前景和挑战。该研究支持对研究生进行实证数据收集和分析方法的培训，研究结果通过学术和非学术途径广泛传播，包括向关注环境政治和政策的组织传播。这项研究汇集了人类学领域的学术成果。环境和基础设施、重要的土著和定居者殖民研究以及气候变化和危机的人类学，以研究人们如何想象、预测和呼吁重塑沿海景观的各种可能性。研究人员研究了如何理解、管理和采取行动作为这些挑战的一部分，以及当气候变化的多方面威胁面对沿海景观的当前形成和持续存在时所揭示的伦理、政治和知识。研究设计包括使用参与观察、访谈、生活史、话语分析和档案研究来检查变化过程以及为应对可能发生的灾难所做的努力。由此产生的发现有助于更好地了解城市环境中沿海洪水风险的社会和经济适应。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。