Doctoral Dissertation Research: Models of Socio-ecological Resilience in Response to Environmental Change

博士论文研究：应对环境变化的社会生态复原力模型

• 批准号: 1756367
• 负责人: Jerry Jacka
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-02-15 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Models; Socio

Theories of socioecological resilience have attempted to understand how and why systems return to an equilibrium state after a disturbance. More recent research has demonstrated resilience to be more fluid, a dynamic and adaptive response that develops create capacities over time. Using a panarchy model of resilience, which recognizes the ongoing tensions between stability and change, this project seeks to understand how events of varied temporal and spatial and speeds can reciprocally influence produce unpredictable outcomes. The project, which trains a student in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, would enhance scientific understanding by broadly disseminating findings to organizations engaged in modeling socio-ecological resilience and mitigating the impacts of environmental change. Emily Hite, under the supervision of Dr. Jerry Jacka of the University of Colorado at Boulder, will explore the processes by which a diversity of perspectives at multiple scales inform the development and implementation of policy, and the ways in which policy implementation relates to social-ecological resiliency and the production of space and place through time. The research will be conducted in Costa Rica, an ideal site for asking these questions because it is an international leader in renewable energy production and sustainable development, and a policy commitment to becoming one of the world's first carbon neutral countries. This plan relies on completing the Diquís Hydroelectric Project in southwestern Puntarenas Province. However, the Térraba indigenous peoples living in the area have conflicting perspectives regarding the project's potential social, environmental, and economic transformations on their culture, livelihoods, and landscape. The researchers will conduct anthropological research in Térraba and the capital, San José, to better understand the diversity of perspectives of and responses to climate policy, how they are formed, and how they inform policy development. The research team will collect social, ecological, and ethnographic data using participant observation, interviews, household surveys, focus groups, and surveys of plant and animal species used by Térraba peoples. The diversity of qualitative and quantitative data will provide a more comprehensive understanding of how local people are impacted by universal climate policy mechanisms and attempts at the nation-state level to implement those mechanisms.

社会生态弹性理论试图了解灾难发生后系统如何以及为什么恢复均衡状态。最近的研究表明，弹性更具流动性，这是一种动态和适应性反应，随着时间的流逝而产生能力。该项目利用稳定力量的弹力模型认识到稳定与变化之间持续的紧张关系，试图了解各种临时和空间和速度的事件如何相互影响会产生不可预测的结果。该项目培训了一名学生的经验，科学数据收集和分析方法，将通过向致力于建模社会生态弹性并减轻环境变化的影响的组织广泛传播发现来增强科学理解。在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的杰里·杰克（Jerry Jacka）的监督下，艾米丽·赫特（Emily Hite）将探讨多种观点的多种观点为政策的制定和实施，以及政策实施与社会生态弹性的关系的方式以及时间和地点的产生方式。该研究将在哥斯达黎加进行，这是提出这些问题的理想场所，因为它是可再生能源生产和可持续发展的国际领导者，并且是成为世界上第一个碳中性国家之一的政策承诺。该计划依靠完成蓬塔雷纳斯省西南部的Diquís水力发电项目。但是，居住在该地区的土著人民对该项目对其文化，生计和景观的潜在社会，环境和经济转变有着矛盾的看法。研究人员将在Térraba和首都圣何塞进行人类学研究，以更好地了解对气候政策的观点和回应的多样性，如何形成以及如何为政策发展提供信息。研究团队将使用参与的观察，访谈，家庭调查，焦点小组以及对Térraba人使用的动植物物种进行社会，生态和民族志数据。定性和定量数据的多样性将为当地人如何受到普遍气候政策机制的影响以及在民族阶层的实施这些机制的企图影响。