Social organization, population, and land use.
Social organization, population, and land use.
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DOI：
10.1086/661072
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发表时间：
2011-07
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Ghimire DJ
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作者：
Axinn WG;Ghimire DJ
我们提出了一种新的方法来调查人类对环境变化的影响，明确增加了社会组织的考虑。这种方法将社会组织确定为对环境的影响，它独立于人口规模，富裕程度和技术。我们提出的框架还确定了人口事件，如出生，有可能影响环境的后果超出人口规模的后果。我们构建的理论框架解释说，明确关注社会组织是必要的人口-环境关系的微观层面的调查，因为社会组织的影响。我们使用新的纵向，多层次，混合方法的措施，当地的土地利用变化，当地人口动态，从尼泊尔喜马拉雅山的社会组织提供实证检验这个新框架。这些测试表明，社会组织变化的措施与土地利用变化的措施密切相关，这种关联是独立的人口规模，富裕程度和技术的共同措施。此外，当地的出生事件塑造当地的土地利用变化和土地利用变化的关键直接决定因素。总之，实证结果表明，我们提出的方法所产生的关键新的科学机会。
We present a new approach to the investigation of human influences on environmental change that explicitly adds consideration of social organization. This approach identifies social organization as an influence on the environment that is independent of population size, affluence, and technology. The framework we present also identifies population events, such as births, that are likely to influence environmental outcomes beyond the consequences of population size. The theoretical framework we construct explains that explicit attention to social organization is necessary for micro-level investigation of the population-environment relationship because social organization influences both. We use newly available longitudinal, multilevel, mixed-method measures of local land use changes, local population dynamics, and social organization from the Nepalese Himalayas to provide empirical tests of this new framework. These tests reveal that measures of change in social organization are strongly associated with measures of change in land use, and that the association is independent of common measures of population size, affluence, and technology. Also, local birth events shape local land use changes and key proximate determinants of land use change. Together the empirical results demonstrate key new scientific opportunities arising from the approach we present.