Reciprocal Relations between Population and Environment

人口与环境的相互关系

• 批准号: 7527197
• 负责人: William G. Axinn
• 金额: $ 52.96万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-27 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7527197
• 关键词: Address; Behavior; Communities; Consumption; Data; Data Analyses; Dimensions; Environment; Fertility; H19 gene; HI 6; Hand; Immigration; International Aspects; Investigation; Link; Marriage; Marriage Pattern; Measures; Michigan; Natural Resources; Perception; Population; Population Process; Process; RHOA gene; Research; Resources; Series; Shapes; Testing; Theoretical model; Time; Universities; Update; Variant; Work; behavior influence; child bearing; environmental change; insight; land use; migration

This is a proposal to continue a unique micro·level study of the reciprocal relationships between population processes (marriage, fertility, and migration) and the environment (land usefcover, vegetation abundance and species diversity, and consumption of natural resources) in the foothills of the Nepalese Himalayas. To date analyses of these data have revealed a series of crucial insights into the overall reciprocal relationships between population and the environment. First, we find key dimensions of environmental variation do shape subsequent marital, childbearing, and migration behavior, but these population parameters also influence change and variation in land use, vegetation abundance, species diversity, and consumption of natural resources. Second, at the micro· level we find that local community context conditions the population· environment relationship, with strong effects on marriage, childbearing and migration on the one hand and land use, vegetation and consumption behavior on the other hand. Third, our investigation of the micro· level processes linked to these associations points toward variations in consumption behavior and perceptions of environmental change as key mechanisms linking population parameters and environmental change. Although these findings shape the theoretical model guiding our research, updated longitudinal data just available now provides a significant opportunity to advance research in this field.

这是一项提议，旨在继续对人口过程（婚姻，生育能力和移民）与环境（土地利用，植被丰度和物种多样性以及自然资源的消费）之间的相互关系进行独特的微观研究。迄今为止，对这些数据的分析揭示了对人群与环境之间整体互惠关系的一系列关键见解。首先，我们发现环境变化的关键维度确实会塑造随后的婚姻，生育和迁移行为，但是这些人口参数也会影响土地使用，蔬菜抽象，物种多样性以及自然资源消费的变化和变化。其次，在微观层面，我们发现当地社区环境条件人口环境关系对婚姻，生育和移民的影响强烈，另一方面是土地利用，蔬菜和消费行为。第三，我们对与这些关联相关的微水平流程的调查指出，消费行为的变化和对环境变化的看法是将人口参数和环境变化联系起来的关键机制。尽管这些发现塑造了指导我们研究的理论模型，但现在可用的更新的纵向数据为推进该领域的研究提供了重要的机会。