Collaborative Research: GCR: Common Pool Resource Theory as a Scalable Framework for Catalyzing Stakeholder-Driven Solutions to the Freshwater Salinization Syndrome

合作研究：GCR：公共池资源理论作为催化利益相关者驱动的淡水盐化综合症解决方案的可扩展框架

• 批准号: 2312326
• 负责人: Jesus Gomez-Velez
• 金额: $ 46.42万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2312326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GCR; Common; Pool

Inland freshwater salt concentrations are rising across many regions of the United States and globally—a trend that directly threatens water quality, ecosystems, and drinking water supplies. The research team will test a potentially generalizable approach to reverse inland freshwater salinization that relies on local agencies and other stakeholders—in partnership with engineers, hydrologists, social scientists, and policymakers—to craft locally tailored “bottom-up” solutions to this growing problem (as opposed to regulatorily driven “top-down” solutions). The test case for the study will be the Occoquan Reservoir, a drinking water supply for nearly 2 million people in Northern Virginia. The reservoir is salinizing and to better understand the underlying causes, the researchers will focus on two major salt sources: effluent from a wastewater treatment plant and deicer use in upstream watersheds. Through convergence research, education and outreach they will identify mechanisms that promote collaboration between stakeholders to effectively manage the salt budget of this regionally important drinking water supply. Lessons learned will be upscaled nationally and globally in partnership with the Water Research Foundation.At its core, inland freshwater salinization is a common pool resource (CPR) problem, because inland freshwaters are available to all actors and restricting access would be prohibitively expensive. From detailed studies of collective action arrangements in the water sector, Nobel-laureate Elinor Ostrom developed a social-ecological-systems (SES) framework for diagnosing the conditions under which local actors are likely to band together to manage a CPR without outside interference. This project hypothesizes that Ostrom’s SES framework can be used to diagnose, and resolve, the challenges and barriers that limit, or outright prevent, bottom-up management of inland freshwater salt budgets. Through semi-structured interviews with local water and wastewater managers and other stakeholders, multi-stakeholder deliberations featuring shared learning and exploration, biophysical and social science field and modeling studies, and longitudinal studies of stakeholders’ evolving understanding of the problem, the researchers will test the hypothesis that Ostrom’s framework can “propel knowledge into action” and catalyze bottom-up solutions to threats to ecosystem sustainability and human water security.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.

美国和全球许多地区的内陆淡水盐浓度正在上升，这一趋势直接威胁着水质、生态系统和饮用水供应。研究小组将测试一种可能普遍适用的方法，以扭转内陆淡水盐碱化，该方法依赖于当地机构和机构。其他利益相关者与工程师、水文学家、社会科学家和政策制定者合作，针对这一日益严重的问题制定本地定制的“自下而上”解决方案（而不是监管驱动的“自上而下”解决方案）。将要奥科昆水库是弗吉尼亚州北部近 200 万人的饮用水源，该水库正在盐化，为了更好地了解根本原因，研究人员将重点关注两个主要盐源：废水处理厂的废水和除冰剂的使用。通过融合研究、教育和推广，他们将确定促进利益相关者之间合作的机制，以有效管理这一区域重要饮用水供应的盐预算，并将在全国和全球范围内加强合作。从本质上讲，内陆淡水盐碱化是一个共同池资源（CPR）问题，因为内陆淡水可供所有参与者使用，并且根据对水部门集体行动安排的详细研究，限制使用的成本将极其昂贵。诺贝尔奖获得者埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆 (Elinor Ostrom) 开发了一个社会生态系统 (SES) 框架，用于诊断当地参与者在没有外部干预的情况下可能联合起来管理 CPR 的条件。奥斯特罗姆的 SES 框架可用于诊断和解决限制或彻底阻止内陆淡水盐预算自下而上管理的挑战和障碍。利益相关者的审议以共享学习和探索、生物物理和社会科学领域和模型研究为特色，以及利益相关者对问题不断发展的理解的纵向研究，研究人员将检验奥斯特罗姆的框架可以“将知识转化为行动”的假设，并促进自下而上的解决方案，应对生态系统可持续性和人类水安全的威胁。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。