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.

该项目研究私有财产管理如何影响脱碳融资、技术开发以及公正公平的低碳转型谈判。该研究分析了政府激励能源升级的计划，并调查了业主在多户建筑中追求数字能源升级的原因。该项目测试了公共气候融资理论，并提供了有关建筑基础设施变革的见解。越来越多的城市正在立法制定强制性建筑能源绩效标准，以遏制碳排放，并了解各种多户财产权的能源升级决策的更广泛的社会过程，为减缓气候变化的努力贡献知识。这项研究调查了政府、私人和企业如何公民行为者在遵守纽约市强制性建筑性能立法（第 97 号地方法）时协商公共、利润和道德财产利益。目的是了解多户建筑业主选择安装数字能源升级的原因以及数字能源系统如何影响业主、居民、工作人员和政府行为者的利益。研究提出以下问题：1）政府如何利用政策和融资机制来实施私人住宅建筑的基础设施变革？ 2) 为什么数字技术成为实现能源升级的常用手段？它们如何影响多户建筑的财产利益？ 3) 不同私人土地保有权安排的能源决策有何不同？该研究采用定性方法，包括参与观察、档案分析以及对低碳建筑领域的专业人士、建筑业主、居民和工作人员的半结构化访谈，以评估纽约市几栋多户住宅楼的能源升级项目——每个人都有不同但共同的财产利益。通过对研究结果的系统综合，该研究总结了私人多户住宅能源升级的决策结构，并确定了有关脱碳政策的公平和正义的反复诉求。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，经评估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。