Local Ecological Knowledge of Common-Pool Resources in Campeche, Mexico

墨西哥坎佩切市公共池资源的当地生态知识

• 批准号: 9422587
• 负责人: Scott Atran
• 金额: $ 33.96万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-04-15 至 1999-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9422587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Local; Ecological; Knowledge; Common; Pool

This research explores how indigenous Maya Indians in Yucatan, Mexico, local immigrants and non-governmental organizations manage forest resource systems. The project focuses on the roles of information and communication in the use and governance of common-pool resources. Three questions will be studied: What is the structure and content of local ecological knowledge that enables successful commons management? What is the character of the communications networks that make possible assimilation, distribution and implementation of this information? and to what extent is loss of local knowledge and disruption of communication networks related to a breakdown of the commons? The general background issues are what lessons do micro-level approaches to increasingly threatened commons systems hold for the future of global commons such as the earth's forests, ranges, water and air? Methods will include ethnographic fieldwork in Campeche, Yucatan, Mexico. Field researchers will interview individuals for their cognitive models of resources using intensive open-ended interviews as well as close-ended questionnaires and psychological tests to study mental models, social networks, and the social distribution of ecological knowledge. Consensus analysis will be performed on local communities to study the distribution and patterning of ecological knowledge. In addition the range of biotic resources available to the community will be surveyed as a form of `ground-truthing`. This research is important because systematic analysis of local community-based knowledge and beliefs and the linkages between this knowledge and practices will help societies plan to conserve natural resources. This is the human dimension of both local and global change in the preservation or breakdown of common property resources.

这项研究探讨了墨西哥尤卡坦半岛的土著玛雅印第安人、当地移民和非政府组织如何管理森林资源系统。 该项目重点关注信息和通信在公共池资源的使用和治理中的作用。 将研究三个问题：能够实现成功的公地管理的当地生态知识的结构和内容是什么？ 使这些信息的同化、分发和实施成为可能的通信网络的特征是什么？当地知识的丧失和通信网络的中断在多大程度上与公共资源的崩溃有关？ 一般的背景问题是，针对日益受到威胁的公地系统的微观层面的方法对于全球公地（例如地球的森林、山脉、水和空气）的未来有什么教训？ 方法将包括墨西哥尤卡坦半岛坎佩切州的民族志实地考察。 实地研究人员将通过密集的开放式访谈、封闭式问卷和心理测试来采访个人的资源认知模型，以研究心理模型、社交网络和生态知识的社会分布。 将对当地社区进行共识分析，以研究生态知识的分布和模式。 此外，将以“地面实况”的形式对社区可用的生物资源范围进行调查。 这项研究很重要，因为对当地社区的知识和信仰以及这些知识和实践之间的联系进行系统分析将有助于社会制定保护自然资源的计划。 这是公共财产资源的保护或破坏方面的地方和全球变化的人为因素。