Doctoral Dissertation Research: Knowledge Resources in the Building of Ecological Restoration Communities

博士论文研究：生态修复社区建设中的知识资源

• 批准号: 2148865
• 负责人: Audra Simpson
• 金额: $ 2.46万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2148865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Knowledge; Resources

This research project investigates land-based communities and a network of ecological theorists to analyze the range of strategies that are utilized in building communities committed to ecological restoration and sustainability. It specifically asks what knowledge sources these communities draw upon, and how those knowledge sources are integrated, in ecological restoration efforts. The project aims to expand understandings of the range of ecological restoration strategies and knowledge resources that communities marshal in adapting to environmental change. Findings and data will be disseminated through scholarly avenues as well as public workshops and through the curation an online archive of research materials. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project would enhance scientific understanding engaging non-academic groups in the process of scientific production and the scientific method. This doctoral dissertation focuses on two groups that are concerned with building communities that are responsive to the effects of environmental change and engaged in ecological restoration, and which derive their discourse largely from anthropological theory. The context provides a unique window into the study of how anthropological citizen science is translated into ecological restoration efforts. Over the course of twelve months of fieldwork, the researcher will explore the social structure, decision-making processes, the external relationships these communities have with Indigenous communities, and their ecological practices through participant observation, focus group interviews among a core cohort of participants to examine collective decision-making practices, and semi-structured interviews and life histories to understand individual lived experiences. Analytical techniques include discourse and textual analysis of interview and archival data. The project would make generalizable contributions to understand the role and response of non-state sovereign movements to environmental change.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.

该研究项目调查了陆地社区和生态理论家网络，以分析用于建设致力于生态恢复和可持续性的社区的一系列策略。它特别询问这些社区在生态恢复工作中利用哪些知识来源，以及如何整合这些知识来源。该项目旨在扩大对社区适应环境变化的生态恢复策略和知识资源范围的理解。研究结果和数据将通过学术途径、公共研讨会以及研究材料在线档案的管理来传播。除了为人类学研究生的实证、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训提供资金外，该项目还将增强非学术团体参与科学生产和科学方法过程中的科学理解。这篇博士论文重点关注两个群体，他们关心建立对环境变化影响做出反应的社区并从事生态恢复，他们的论述主要源自人类学理论。这一背景为研究人类学公民科学如何转化为生态恢复工作提供了一个独特的窗口。在为期十二个月的实地考察过程中，研究人员将通过参与观察、对核心参与者进行焦点小组访谈来探索社会结构、决策过程、这些社区与土著社区的外部关系以及他们的生态实践检查集体决策实践、半结构化访谈和生活史，以了解个人的生活经历。分析技术包括访谈和档案数据的话语和文本分析。该项目将为理解非国家主权运动对环境变化的作用和反应做出普遍贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。