DDRIG:A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis of links between individual and household decision-making, negotiation of livelihood risk, & natural resource management conflic

DDRIG：对个人和家庭决策、生计风险谈判、

• 批准号: 2343837
• 负责人: Carter Hunt
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2343837&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIG; transdisciplinary; comparative; analysis; links

Understanding socioeconomic and livelihood challenges for communities near endangered wildlife habitat is a priority for global biodiversity conservation because poverty and resource scarcity can be linked to environmental degradation, unsustainable natural resource use, and conflict. Research is needed to better understand decision-making in the face of unique economic, environmental, and social risk factors near protected areas that inhibit household resilience, thereby exacerbating natural resource management conflicts. The need for such understanding is particularly urgent in lesser developed regions of the tropics, where communities near protected areas often face extreme poverty. To address this need, this research in Sub-Saharan Africa investigates how the ability to recover from economic, environmental, or climate change-related shocks can be influenced by individual and household decision-making around livelihoods strategies, and the resource management implications of decisions to take on or mitigate risks.Linking behavioral economics, human behavioral ecology, and resilience studies, this research is guided by the following overarching question: How do individual and household decisions made in negotiation of risks influence livelihoods outcomes? More specific research questions and hypothesis tests assess the following: 1) how households in park-adjacent communities define and evaluate desirable resilience from their own perspective; 2) the relationship between socioeconomic status, risk preferences, and subjective resilience for households in park-adjacent communities; and 3) how integrated conservation-development interventions can be targeted to improve household outcomes like subjective resilience. The transdisciplinary, mixed-methods data collection and analysis plan is qualitative, quantitative, and spatial in nature. This research tests competing explanations of risky decision-making, such as prospect theory and risk-sensitive optimal foraging theory, in a novel setting of natural resource conflict, multidimensional poverty, and proximity to protected areas. The study also advances resilience theory through the application of its subjective measure. Finally, this research addresses a literature gap in explaining mechanisms through which risk preferences influence household livelihood decisions, and by proxy, environmental conservation outcomes. This work thus illustrates how livelihood decisions and negotiation of risk influence household resilience, yielding broader impacts for conservation and development scholars, practitioners, and policymakers who are involved in designing initiatives that simultaneously advance economic development, community wellbeing, and natural resource management. The resulting behavioral model linking risk preferences, multidimensional poverty status, and decision-making to subjective resilience will be relevant to research undertaken in poor and park-adjacent communities around the globe.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.

了解濒临灭绝的野生动植物栖息地的社区的社会经济和生计挑战是全球生物多样性保护的优先事项，因为贫困和资源稀缺可能与环境退化，不可持续的自然资源使用以及冲突有关。需要研究以更好地了解抑制家庭弹性的保护区附近的独特经济，环境和社会风险因素，从而加剧自然资源管理冲突，从而更好地理解决策。在热带地区较不发达的地区，这种理解的需求尤其紧迫，在受保护地区附近的社区经常面临极端贫困。为了满足这一需求，在撒哈拉以南非洲的这项研究调查了如何从经济，环境或气候变化相关的冲击中恢复的能力，这会受到围绕生计策略的个人和家庭决策的影响，而这些决策的资源管理含义是如何促进或减轻风险的界限，并促进了行为经济学的研究，以下方面的研究涉及人类行为，人类行为的研究：风险谈判会影响生计结果？更具体的研究问题和假设检验评估以下内容：1）公园贴种社区中的家庭如何从自己的角度定义和评估理想的韧性； 2）社会经济地位，风险偏好和对公园标志社区家庭的主观韧性之间的关系； 3）如何针对综合保护开发干预措施来改善主观弹性等家庭结果。跨学科的，混合方法的数据收集和分析计划本质上是定性的，定量的和空间的。这项研究测试了危险决策的竞争解释，例如前景理论和风险敏感的最佳觅食理论，在自然资源冲突，多维贫困和与受保护领域的邻近的新型环境中。该研究还通过应用其主观度量来提高弹性理论。最后，这项研究解决了解释风险偏好影响家庭生计决策以及代理，环境保护结果的文献差距。因此，这项工作说明了生计决策和风险的谈判如何影响家庭的韧性，从而对保护和发展学者，从业人员和政策制定者产生更广泛的影响，他们参与设计同时推动经济发展，社区福祉和自然资源管理的计划。由此产生的行为模型，将风险偏好，多维贫困状况和决策与主观韧性联系起来将与全球贫困和公园相关社区进行的研究有关。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过该基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得的支持。