Progress 12/01/08 to 11/30/13
Outputs
Target Audience: Target audience for work on this project was a) academic -- scholars in the areas of community sociology, rural sociology, water, and energy; b) practitioners in community development, rural development, water and energy. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? 1) New guidelines have been developed to address community leadership development. Training has included 1 Webinar in November 2012; 1 working meeting with academics and practitioners in November 2013. 2) Workshops on community bioenergy carried out November 29-December 3, 2012 in East Lansing, MI. Worked with international professionals and academics to identify the opportunities and challenges in bioenergy. 3) Workshops on community collaboration water management carried out monthly with MSU Institute for Water Research March-May 2013. Workded with stakeholders to understand the assets that might be leveraged to implement water quality. 4) Workshops on information and community collaboration and drought management were carried out July 29 in Oberlin, Kansas and August 1 in Alma, Nebraska. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Produced 2 book chapters and three peer review publications. 2 invited presentations, 3 presentations at professional meetings, 2 book chapters, 3 peer review journal manuscripts. 1) New guidelines have been developed to address community leadership development. Training has included 1 Webinar in November 2012; 1 working meeting with academics and practitioners in November 2013. 2) Workshops on community bioenergy carried out November 29-December 3, 2012 in East Lansing, MI. Worked with international professionals and academics to identify the opportunities and challenges in bioenergy. 3) Workshops on community collaboration water management carried out monthly with MSU Institute for Water Research March-May 2013. Workded with stakeholders to understand the assets that might be leveraged to implement water quality. 4) Workshops on information and community collaboration and drought management were carried out July 29 in Oberlin, Kansas and August 1 in Alma, Nebraska. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1) Developed a model for analyzing the effectiveness of community leadership development specifically related to natural resources management 1b) Have presented at numerous professional meetings and practioner conferences and webinars on analyzing leadership education. Research has contributed to the development new tools for evaluating community natural resources leadership development activities. 1c) Have worke with colleagues to apply findings to community organization activities. 2) Developed a tood for analyzing when community leaders are likely to mitigate the impacts of new energy facilities on natural resources - specifically water. 2b) Have worked with academics to integrate these findings into models on the feasibility of community based energy projects. 2c) Have presented findings at numerous professional conferences. Have also worked with practitioners on community development strategies given findings. 2d) Hosted an international symposium in Nov-December 2012 on bioenergy that touched on many of the themes uncovered through this research. 3) Developed project presentations and manuscripts that are currently in draft on community capacity and management of water and sanitation.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Pigg, K., S. Gasteyer, K. Martin, G. Apaliya, K. Keating*. 2013. The Community Capitals Framework: An Empirical Examination of Internal Relationships. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society. 44(4): 492-502.
Eaton, W.+, S. Gasteyer, and L. Busch. 2013 (online first). The Future of Bioenergy: Imaginaries of Renewable Energy and their Discontents. Rural Sociology. DOI: 10.1111/ruso.12027
Gasteyer, S. and J. Carrera*. 2013. The Coal-Corn Divide: Place, Technology and Risk Perception in Rural Community Energy Development. Rural Sociology 78(3): 290-317.
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Progress 01/01/12 to 12/31/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: This year the work on the development of the civic infrastructure for water management continued with distinct directions: 1) an exploration of polycentric governance and water Specifically, what role do emerging legal frameworks such as the human right to water impact the dynamics of water governance at the national, state, and local level Key outputs: developed two research manuscripts that were presented at professional meetings: a) Beyond L/D 100: Nongovernmental Coalitions and Implementing the The Human Right to Water in the United States at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting in July 2012 b) Community Water Systems Capacity and Sustainability, with Steve Wilson, University of Illinois, at the American Water Works Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, June 2012. c) Developed and presented manuscripts on leadership, water management and water governance: See Keating and Gasteyer (2012) and Apaliya, et al. (2012) below. 2) How does historical development impact water management systems, availability and quality This resulted in one presentation at a professional meeting: a) Floods, Dams, Pivots and Aquifers: Imaginaries and Socio-Technology Histories as Catalysts for Water Management Paradigms at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference in New York City in April 2012 b) Also currently looking at the role of social movements in developments that contribute to and inhibit water quality of Lake St. Claire, Michigan c) Published manuscript on Imaginaries, modernization and water regimes, see Gasteyer, et al. (2012), below. 3) What is the interaction between energy development and water Resulted in one presentation at a professional meeting: a) Contesting Renewable Energy: Keying Biomass in Michigan, USA, Jointly presented with Weston Eaton, Graduate Student, at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Conference, Chicago, July 2012 4) How might we better depict the role of inequality in water access Currently developing two manuscripts, one on access to water and sanitation in the United States to be sent to the Journal Environment and Society; one on the disparity of water rates in the Great Lakes states, to be sent to the Journal of Organization and Environment. PARTICIPANTS: Just Stephen Gasteyer. Others mentioned have been collaborators with other funding. Key partners have included: Joan Rose, Ph.D., Director, Center for Water Science, MSU Jon Bartholic, Ph.D, Director, Institute for Water Research, MSU Jan Beecher, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Public Utilities, MSU Shaun McElmurry, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Wayne State University Dulcy Abraham, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Purdue University Nicholas Brozovic, Ph.D., Ag and Consumer Econ., University of Illinois Kari Keating, Ph.D., University of Illinois -- was my research assistant through last year Weston Eaton, Grad Research Assistant, MSU Rachel Butts, Grad Research Assistant, MSU TARGET AUDIENCES: Target audiences included: Policy makers working on water management Policy makers working on water infrastructure and financing Policy and opinion leaders working on water governance issues Community activists around water issues PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
Beginning to better understand the role of socio-historical analysis in understanding resource management trajectories, and where opportunities may exist for system level interventions to create positive change in water management regimes. Have gained a better understanding of the role of local leadership and governance systems in determining water management paradigms. Am well positioned to investigate: a) the role of governance networks in improving protection of water quality (through a partnership with Institute for Water Research, MSU, preparing to apply for funding from US Army Corps of Engineers) b) the role of social movements over time in water quality management (in partnership with the Center for Water Sciences, likely to join initiative to apply for funding from NSF) c) whole systems approaches to investigating water infrastructure deterioration in shrinking communities (collaborative effort with the Institute for Public Utilities and Dept of Eng. at Wayne State and Purdue University, likely to apply for NSF financing).
Publications
- Stephen Gasteyer, Jad Isaac, Jane Hillal, Sean Walsh, and Katie Hodali. 2012. Water grabbing in colonial perspective: Land and water in Israel/Palestine. Water Alternatives 5(2): 450-468
- Keating, K. and S. Gasteyer. 2012. The Role of Cultural Capital in Community Leadership. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 43(2): 147-168.
- Apaliya, Godwin; Kenneth Martin; Stephen Gasteyer; Kari Keating; Kenneth Pigg. 2012. Community Leadership Development Education: Promoting Civic Engagement through Human and Social Capital. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society (Expected March 2012)
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Progress 01/01/11 to 12/31/11
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Completed: A report for the Gates Foundation funded achieving sustainable rural water systems at scale (Triple S) that describes the programs to support small community drinking water and wastewater system in the United States. An article that has recently been published in Environmental Practice on Water Rates. Presented 4 times at professional meetings on water related issues. Presented 2 times at professional meetings on community leadership issues. Presented 2 times at professional meetings on community landscape issues Presented 2 times at professional meetings on bioenergy issues and concerns. Completed 2 papers on community leadership. One published, one in press. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals Rachel Butts Jarnagin, Graduate Research Assistant, Michigan State University Weston Eaton, Graduate Research Assistant, Michigan State University Elise Benveniste, Graduate Research Assistant, Michigan State University Rachel Johansen, Graduate Research Assistant, Michigan State University Kari Keating, Academic Professional, Lab for Community and Economic Development, University of Illinois Jennifer Carrera, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois Partner Organizations American Water Works Association, Denver, Colorado American Water Works Association, Michigan Section Michigan Environmental Council University of Illinois Extension Bush Foundation, Minneapolis, MN TARGET AUDIENCES: Water Policy Decision Makers Leadership development organizations PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: There have been no major changes to this project.
Impacts
Results of research impacted the development of programs to support technical assistance institutional development in developing countries through the Triple S program. Article in Environmental Practice led to discussions in the media regarding the impacts of water rate hikes on particular populations. Associated Press Coverage to date: http://news.msu.edu/story/10062 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/minorities-pay-more-for-basi c-utilities_n_1119325.html http://www.michiganradio.org/post/msu-study-minorities-pay-more-water -michigan Contributed to the development of a new program by the Bush Foundation on Community Leadership.
Publications
- Apaliya, Godwin; Kenneth Martin; Stephen Gasteyer; Kari Keating; Kenneth Pigg. 2012. Community Leadership Development Education: Promoting Civic Engagement through Human and Social Capital. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society (Expected March 2012)
- Gasteyer, S. 2011. Rural Water Services that Last: USA Case Study. http://www.waterservicesthatlast.org/Countries/USA-overview. Additionally, the proceedings of a panel that I recently chaired on Water Advocacy in at the "Horinko Group" Water Summit in College Park, Maryland recently became available online http://www.thehorinkogroup.org/pubs/2011SummitProceedings.pdf.
- Butts, R. and S. Gasteyer. 2011. More Cost Per Drop: Water Rates, Structural Inequality and Race in the United States. Environmental Practice 13(4)
- Keating, K. and S. Gasteyer. (online as of 2011). The Role of Cultural Capital in Community Leadership. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15575330.2011.575229.
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Progress 01/01/10 to 12/31/10
Outputs
OUTPUTS: My engagement with communities of interest have come through reporting findings in newsletters and trade journal articles and presentations listed below. Presentations at academic/professional meetings: 1) with Eaton, W. "(Em)powering the Local An Actor Network Assessment of the Woody Bioenergy Development in Michigan." Presentation. American Sociological Association, August 16, Atlanta, GA. 2) "Imaginaries and the Social Construction of Water Scarcity." Roundtabled paper, American Sociological Association. 3) with Anderson, R."Performed Polycentrism: How Water Conflict Infringes on Local Governance" Presentation at the Rural Sociological Society, August 13-15, 2010, Atlanta, GA. 4) with Eaton, W. "Wood for Energy or Save the Trees: Deciphering decisions on biomass implementation in northern Michigan's rural communities." Presentation at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Conference. 5) with King, J. "Community Resilience and Biofuel Facility Siting in Illinois." Presentation at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Conference. 6) with Johansen, J. "Social Capital, Service Delivery and Claiming Spaces: Networks, Neighborhoods and Community Revitalization." Presentation at the Community Development Society Annual Conference, July 25, New Orleans, Louisiana. 7) with King, J. "You Can't Drink Ethanol: Exploring Community Water System Capacity and Biofuel Facilities." June 16, Corpus Christi, TX. 8) "Metering Rainmakers: Hydropolitics, Models, and the Curtailing of Overuse of Water in Southwestern US Great Plains" Law and Society Annual Conference, May 28, 2010. Presentations to Communities of Interest 1) "Networks, Coalitions, and the Role of Social Capital in Water Resources Management," invited presentation at the Horinko Group Water Salon, Washington, DC, August 31, 2010. 2) "Visioning Community Water System Research: Arsenic and Beyond." American Water Works Association, Annual Conference and Exhibition, June 24, 2010, Chicago, IL. Articles in Newsletters or Trade Magazines 1) Modeling the Social-Economic-Natural System in the Republican River Basin. The Aquifer, fall 2010, p. 6, http://www.groundwater.org/au/archives/AQ_2502.pdf. 2) Gasteyer, S. and D. Kong. 2010. Are Small Community Water Systems More at Risk than Other Systems. On Tap Summer 2010: 24-27. http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/pdf/dw/publications/ontap/magazine/OTSPSU10_f eatures/More_At_Risk.pdf. 3)Gasteyer, S. 2009. How Do We Emphasize the Importance of Operator Training and Certification Opflow October 2009: 6. These articles are all in publications that are disseminated to communities of interest. In particular, The Aquifer is sent to members of the Groundwater Foundation, a national nonprofit that works with community based non-governmental organizations on source water protection. On Tap is sent to both small community water operators and those organizations that serve small community water systems. The On Tap circulation is roughly 100,000. Opflow is the small water system publication of the American Water Works Association and has a circulation of approximately 75,000. PARTICIPANTS: Other than myself (Stephen Gasteyer), no other individuals worked at least one person month per year on the project during the reporting period and received salary, wages, a stipend, or other support from the agency for this project. Partner organizations included the National Science Foundation, and the Michigan Economic Development Council, which both provided financial support for projects, and the American Water Works Association, and the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, both of which provided material support for elements of this project. The project provided for the time and some resources to support travel to professional meetings for the PI and associated graduate students. TARGET AUDIENCES: The target audiences for this research are rural communities and others serving small communities regarding water infrastructure and natural resources issues. These include: members of the Groundwater Foundation Groundwater Guardian program; water operators and others associated with the American Water Works Association; technical assistance providers with the Rural Community Assistance Partnership; Policy makers in the water field. Articles and presentations have aimed to encourage public engagement processes, rather than processes focused on developing simply technical know-how. In addition to presentations and articles, the PI facilitated a policy dialogue around water management in early September with high level agency bureaucrats. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: None
Impacts
My findings from research have helped to identify the relationship between social networks and the sustainability of small water systems. This has led to the insight that small water systems are sustainable only through direct or indirect state subsidies. Continuation of these subsidies are the result of networked local pressure on state and national legislators. As such, I have begun to look at the intersection between social movements around water and sanitation, financial allocations from government, and the sustainability of water systems. This all comes as environmental pressures, depreciation of capital assets, and fiscal belt tightening are significantly constraining the available resources to upgrade rural water system infrastructure. I have recently received two NSF grants for modeling these insights. I additionally have been pursuing research on the effects of attempts by water and wastewater systems to address financial shortfalls and system upgrades through raising water rates. A manuscript is currently under development that will be submitted to the Journal Environmental Practice.
Publications
- Gasteyer, S. 2009. Measuring Impacts of Community Water System Local Government, Board and Management Training. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Midwest Technology Assistance Center for Small Community Water Systems. http://mtac.isws.illinois.edu/mtacdocs/pubs/MTACTP09-04.pdf, accessed December 1, 2010. (Describes the impacts of rural community water infrastructure governance training networks.)
- Gasteyer, S. 2011. USA Water Infrastructure Sustainable Delivery Model: Access to Water and Sanitation in USA: Sustainable Delivery through Technical Assistance. The Hague, Netherlands: IRC Water and Sanitation. (Provides an institutional analysis of support systems for water and sanitation in rural communities as part of a Gates Foundation funded initiative to describe sustainable delivery models for rural water and sanition.)
- Summerfield, G. , K. Taylor, S. Gasteyer. 2010. Biofuels, Food, And Trade: A Comparison Of Biofuel Development Efforts In Two Illinois Communities. Chapter 13 in Energy, Bio Fuels and Development: Comparing Brazil and the United States. London: Routledge Press.
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Progress 01/01/09 to 12/31/09
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Research Carried Out: At this point, I have been engaged in the collection of data. This included collection of data on watershed organizations in Michigan. I have also used compiled analysis on water use laws in Michigan. Further, I have collaborated with the MSU Institute for Water Research to collect information on areas of groundwater overuse and therefore potential conflicts over allocation in Michigan. We have also assessed the sector groundwater management plans carried out in compliance with the Michigan Water Use Law. I am in the process of collecting data sets on municipal water and wastewater systems in Michigan, working with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), the Michigan Sector of American Water Works Association (MIAWWA), the Rural Community Assistance Program (RCAP) and others. I have also carried out assessments of water system capacity in Illinois communities where biofuel facilities have been sited or proposed, based on a survey carried out as part of a Hatch grant at University of Illinois. I have also begun collecting information on community water systems for communities with biofuel and bioenergy facilities in Michigan. I have presented preliminary findings from this research at the following professional meetings: 1)"Water Scarcity and Community Participation." Invited Presentation, Engineers Without Borders Great Lakes Regional Workshop, September 26-28, 2008, Champaign, IL. 2)"Assessing Community Assets to Improve Water and Sanitation: Using the Community Capitals Framework to Target Community Interventions." Invited Speaker, Engineers Without Borders USA Annual International Conference, March 26-29, 2009, Milwaukee, WI. 3)"Fluid Interpretation: Compacts, Legislation, Water Conservation/Efficiency Standards, and Rural Communities." Presented at the Law and Society Annual Meeting, May 27-30, 2009 Denver, CO; 4)"The Relative Advantage of Regional Approaches: Regionalization and Small Community Water System Capacity" The Annual Conference of the American Water Works Association, June 10-14, 2009, San Diego, CA; 5) "Scientific Uncertainty and Coalitions in Water Policy Subsystems," American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Summer Specialty Conference, June 29, 2009, Snowbird, UT. I have also produced several outreach articles, including: Gasteyer, S. 2009. "Water Conflict and Resolution." A Matter of Spirit: Journal of the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center No. 82: 2-3; and "How Do We Emphasize the Importance of Operator Certification and Training" Opflow, October 2009, page 6. PARTICIPANTS: While there were no other individuals paid to work on this project, per se, I collaborated with several organizations in carrying out this research: The American Water Works Association; The MSU Institute for Water Research; The MSU Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards; The Rural Community Assistance Partnership. No opportunities were provided for training and professional development through the project during the last year. TARGET AUDIENCES: My target audiences continue to be agencies and individuals involved in small water system issues including water operators and affiliated associations, rural development policy makers, and environmental policy makers. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: It was harder than I expected to collect data on water infrastructure over the last year, so I adjusted the project to collect more data about water conservation and scarcity and governance. It is my intention to pursue the data mentioned as making up the first phase of the proposal of this project during the beginning of 2010. I anticipate being able to use to this data to add to the strength of the analysis currently under way.
Impacts
Impacts of this research to date are as follow: More discussion of how water users' committees will work in Michigan. There are increasing concerns about the capacity of nongovernmental groups to step in as facilitators of water conflict issues; Greater consideration of the importance of community water system governance training. The Illinois Section AWWA began considering establishing a community water system board and management training program, for instance, recognizing the need for greater community capacity to manage water infrastructure.
Publications
- Gasteyer, Stephen P. 2009. Agricultural Transitions in the Context of Growing: Environmental Pressure over Water. Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, 25(4) p. 469-486.
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