Doctoral Dissertation Research: Cognitive processes underlying variation in human-environment interactions

博士论文研究：人类与环境相互作用变化背后的认知过程

• 批准号: 2048655
• 负责人: Jeffrey Johnson
• 金额: $ 2.6万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2048655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Cognitive; processes; Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Cognitive; processes

What factors are most formative in the development of environmental stewardship, and how do they vary across different cultural and environmental contexts? This doctoral dissertation project seeks to investigate variation in understandings of the natural environment and how these understandings shape conservation efforts. The project, which trains a graduate student in methods of empirical, ethnographic data collection and analysis, uses cutting-edge anthropological methods and theory to shed light on underlying cognitive processes driving shared understandings of environmental resources. The findings of this research will be disseminated broadly to academic and non-academic audiences, including NGOs and stakeholders in environmental stewardship. Specifically, this research asks whether different modes of engagement with marine environments reflect different moral attitudes about human activity and the natural world, and whether such moral attitudes inform conservation-relevant decision making. The work is situated in a marine recreation context that, like many others, is also highly climate-vulnerable, posing a common dilemma of balancing exploitation against conservation to preserve recreational activities. The investigators use cultural consensus analysis and ethnographic methods to explore variation in what is considered morally acceptable, as well as how this morality informs the way individuals navigate ethical dilemmas. The research will contribute to a broader, nuanced understanding of environmental morality as a driver influencing behavior in socio-environmental systems.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.

哪些因素在环境管理的发展中最有成形，它们在不同的文化和环境环境中如何变化？该博士学位论文项目旨在研究对自然环境的理解的差异以及这些理解如何塑造保护工作。该项目培训了研究生的经验，人种学数据收集和分析方法，它使用尖端的人类学方法和理论来阐明潜在的认知过程，从而推动了对环境资源的共同理解。这项研究的发现将大量传播给包括环境管理的非政府组织和利益相关者在内的学术和非学术受众。具体来说，这项研究询问与海洋环境的不同方式是否反映了对人类活动和自然世界的不同道德态度，以及这种道德态度是否为与保护与保护有关的决策提供了依据。这项工作位于海洋娱乐环境中，与许多其他人一样，这也是高度可气候的，构成了平衡剥削与保护以保持娱乐活动的共同困境。研究人员使用文化共识分析和民族志方法来探索被认为可以接受的事物的差异，以及这种道德如何为个人度过道德困境的方式。这项研究将有助于对环境道德的更广泛，更细微的理解，这是一种影响社会环境系统中行为的驱动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。