Doctoral Dissertation Research: Retro-fix? Urban Climate Finance and Digital Decarbonization in Multi-family Housing

博士论文研究：复古修复？

• 批准号: 2322934
• 负责人: James McCarthy
• 金额: $ 2.72万
• 依托单位: Clark University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322934&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Retro; fix

This project examines how private property management influences decarbonization finance, technology development, and the negotiation of just and equitable low-carbon transitions. The examination analyzes government programs for incentivizing energy upgrades and investigates why owners pursue digital energy upgrades in multi-family buildings. The project tests public climate finance theories and provides insight into building infrastructure change. Increasingly, cities are legislating mandatory building energy performance standards to curb carbon emissions, and understanding the broader social processes of energy upgrade decision-making across various multi-family property tenures contributes knowledge toward climate mitigation efforts.This research investigates how government, private, and civic actors negotiate public, profit, and ethical property interests as they comply with mandatory building performance legislation, Local Law 97, in New York City. The aim is to understand why multi-family building owners choose to install digital energy upgrades and how digital energy systems impact the interests of owners, residents, staff, and government actors. The research asks: 1) How do governments use policy and financing mechanisms to operationalize infrastructure change in privately-owned residential buildings?; 2) Why have digital technologies emerged as a common means to deliver energy upgrades? How do they impact property interests in multi-family buildings?; and 3) How do energy decision-making differ across private land tenure arrangements? The study uses qualitative methods, including participant observation, archival analysis, and semi-structured interviews with professionals in the low-carbon buildings sector, building owners, residents, and staff, to assess energy upgrade projects in several NYC multi-family residential buildings - each with a distinct but common bundle of property interests. Through systematic syntheses of the findings, the research summarizes decision-making structures of energy upgrades in private multi-family housing and identifies recurrent claims to equity and justice regarding decarbonization policies.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.

该项目探讨了私有财产管理如何影响脱碳融资，技术开发以及公正和公平的低碳过渡的谈判。考试分析了政府计划激励能源升级，并调查了为什么所有者在多户家庭建筑中进行数字能源升级。该项目测试了公共气候金融理论，并提供了有关建筑基础设施变化的见解。城市越来越多地立法建立能源绩效标准，以遏制碳排放，并了解各种多户住所期限的能源升级决策的更广泛的社会过程为气候缓解工作促进了知识。这项研究调查了政府，私人，私人和公民参与者如何在本地建立纽约市法律绩效，以构建私人的公众，利润和道德上的财产利益。目的是了解为什么多户家庭建筑所有者选择安装数字能源升级以及数字能源系统如何影响所有者，居民，员工和政府参与者的利益。研究要求：1）政府如何使用政策和融资机制来运营私人居民建筑的基础设施变化？ 2）为什么数字技术成为提供能源升级的一种常见手段？它们如何影响多户家庭建筑的财产利益？ 3）能源决策在私人土地权限安排之间有何不同？该研究使用定性方法，包括参与者观察，档案分析以及低碳建筑领域的专业人员的半结构化访谈，建筑所有者，居民和员工，以评估几个纽约市多户住宅建筑中的能源升级项目，每座建筑都有一个独特的财产利益。通过系统的发现，这项研究总结了私人多户住房中能源升级的决策结构，并确定了关于脱碳政策公平和正义的经常性主张。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的crietia crietia crietia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia cribitia criperia cribitia recectia rection the Apportiation。