Who, what, where, why and how are urban environmental stewardship groups working in New York City?
The Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project seeks to answer the question: What are the social and spatial interactions among social actors who work on urban stewardship by conserving, managing, monitoring, advocating for, and educating the public about their local environments (including water, land, air, waste, toxics, and energy issues)? STEW-MAP adds a social layer of information to pre-existing biophysical and urban geographic information on ‘green infrastructure’ to understand how environmental stewardship is taking place in New York City. The project analyzes existing stewardship gaps and overlaps to strengthen organizational capacities, enhance citizen monitoring, and build effective partnerships between stakeholders involved in urban stewardship in New York. The findings of the project will inform policy-makers and researchers who aim to understand environmental stewardship. In other words, this project will answer questions regarding the “who, what, where and how” of stewar
