DISES: Integrating environmental justice into urban forest assessment and valuation tools: blueprint for the future

DISES：将环境正义纳入城市森林评估和估价工具：未来蓝图

• 批准号: 2323996
• 负责人: Alexandra Ponette
• 金额: $ 154.92万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 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: 2023-01-15 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2323996&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Integrating; environmental; justice; into

Urban forests provide communities with diverse benefits––including reduced exposure to poor air quality, stormwater runoff, excessive heat, and other health hazards. These benefits, or ecosystem services, are estimated to save urban residents billions of dollars annually. Increasingly, cities rely on digital technologies to monitor, plan, and manage urban forests and their ecosystem services. In theory, digital technologies aid in urban forest management decisions that improve environmental and human well-being. In practice, it remains unclear by whom, how, and in what context these technologies are implemented and the resultant outcomes. This award aims to understand to what extent digital technologies: (1) facilitate equitable access to tree-based ecosystem services; (2) involve urban residents in decision-making processes surrounding urban forests; and (3) represent peoples’ values and preferences for urban trees. The overarching goal of the project is to improve urban forest sustainability and equity at the human-technology frontier.Given the significant role of technology in urban green infrastructure planning and development, urban forests have become a locus of interactions and feedbacks between social, ecological, and technological systems. In cities worldwide, decision makers rely heavily on urban forest assessment and valuation tools to quantify the ecological structure (e.g., tree canopy), function (e.g., air pollution removal), and economic value (i.e., dollars saved) of urban forests. Recent advances allow users to prioritize areas within cities for tree planting, further guiding decision-making processes. Thus, digital forest technologies have the potential to influence access to urban trees and their benefits (distributional justice), participation in decisions surrounding urban forests (procedural and recognition justice), and equity through prioritization of certain values over others (recognition justice). This award asks: How can urban forest assessment and valuation tools integrate equity concerns and participatory processes to support procedural, recognition, and distributional justice in urban forestry? Using i-Tree as a model system, this award will investigate the mechanisms by which digital tools influence forest governance and equity (i.e., through participation and recognition) and potential canopy pollution removal (i.e., through benefits estimates and area prioritizations). Research will be conducted in multiple cities using a multi-scalar, mixed methods approach, including institutional analysis, survey and interview questions designed to facilitate participatory processes, leaf particulate matter sampling, and geospatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and land use regression modeling. The project draws on frameworks, approaches, and technologies from social science, ecology, geospatial science, and visual design to better understand the development and implications of human-technology partnerships in urban forest planning and management. Further, by creatively integrating environmental justice into a major model system for urban forest assessment and valuation, results could provide an example roadmap for other cities to follow, potentially transforming urban forest planning and management into a more just system.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.

城市森林为社区提供潜水员的益处 - 包括减少对空气质量差，雨水径流，过量热量和其他健康危害的暴露。这些福利或生态系统服务估计每年为城市居民节省数十亿美元。城市越来越依靠数字技术来监视，计划和管理城市森林及其生态系统服务。从理论上讲，数字技术协助城市森林管理决策，以改善环境和人类的福祉。在实践中，尚不清楚这些技术的实施以及结果的结果以及在什么情况下。该奖项旨在了解数字技术在多大程度上：（1）促进公平访问基于树的生态系统服务； （2）让城市居民参与城市森林周围的决策过程； （3）代表人们对城市树木的价值观和偏好。该项目的总体目标是改善人类技术领域的城市森林可持续性和公平性。赋予了技术在城市绿色基础设施计划和发展中的重要作用，城市森林已成为社会，生态和技术系统之间的互动和反馈的本地人。在全球城市，决策者在很大程度上依赖城市森林评估和价值工具来量化生态结构（例如树冠），功能（例如，空气污染）和经济价值（即节省的美元）城市森林。最近的进步使用户可以优先考虑城市内植树的地区，并进一步指导决策过程。这就是数字森林技术有可能影响城市树木及其利益的机会（分配正义），参与围绕城市森林的决策（程序和认可正义）以及通过优先考虑某些价值观而不是其他人（承认）正义）的公平性。该奖项要求：城市森林评估和价值工具如何融合公平问题和参与过程，以支持城市林业的程序，认可和分配正义？该奖项将使用I-TREE作为模型系统，将研究数字工具影响森林治理和公平性（即通过参与和认可）和潜在的冠层污染的消除（即，通过福利估计和区域优先考虑）的机制。研究将在多个城市使用多量表，混合方法方法进行，包括制度分析，调查和访谈问题，旨在使用地理信息系统（GIS），远程敏感性和土地使用回归模型，旨在托管参与过程，叶子颗粒物问题采样以及地理空间分析。该项目借鉴了社会科学，生态学，地理空间科学和视觉设计的框架，方法和技术，以更好地了解城市森林规划和管理中人类技术合作伙伴关系的发展和含义。此外，通过创造性地将环境正义纳入城市森林评估和价值观的主要模型系统，结果可以为其他城市提供一个示例路线图，并可能将城市森林规划和管理转变为更公正的系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识绩效和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得的支持。