US-Southern Africa Workshop: Scientific Foundations of Programs for Community Based Management of Wildlife, Gwaai River, Zimbabwe, August 4-7, 1998

美国-南部非洲研讨会：野生动物社区管理计划的科学基础，津巴布韦瓜艾河，1998 年 8 月 4-7 日

• 批准号: 9731004
• 负责人: Wayne Getz
• 金额: $ 2.25万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-05-01 至 1999-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9731004&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Southern; Africa; Workshop; Scientific

9731004 Getz & Fortmann This award supports 22 participants (8 US and 14 African) in the US-Southern Africa Workshop on the Scientific Foundations of Programs for Community Based Management of Wildlife, to be held at Gwaai River, Zimbabwe, August 4-7, 1998. Additional participants include 2 from Europe, and about 40 from the Southern Africa region, including South Africa. The co-organizers are Drs. Wayne Getz and Louise Fortmann, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. David Cumming, Head of the World Wildlife Fund Program Office in Harare, Zimbabwe. This multidisciplinary workshop will include natural and social scientists, resource managers, and policy makers. Many parts of Southern Africa are starting to use community based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs to preserve rural savanna lands as a mean of augmenting national park areas. Currently there is a great deal of variation among the sets of data collected, interpreted, and disseminated by the CBNRM programs. As a result there are no reliable regional assessments on these ecosystems, or on how they are being affected by development and global change. During this workshop participants will learn about CBNRM programs in Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, after which they will form working groups in the areas of: 1) environmental monitoring and evaluation, 2) software and hardware programs, and 3) community management and program evaluation. Each group will identify its database needs and requirements, and then collectively they will establish a common set of scientific protocols and software packages to be used by all CBNRM programs for the collection, interpretation, and management of data, and for program evaluation. The use of these common protocols and software packages will increase the reliability of data collections and assessments, which will enable the information to be used for a new, long-term regional data base on Southern Africa's savanna ecos ystems which are outside of the national parks. The establishment of such a database will be a very significant contribution to the region's scientific infrastructure, and its availability will also enable researchers worldwide to have access to new knowledge about the loss of biodiversity in Southern Africa. The common protocols will also be used in a SAVE GAME (Southern African Veld Ecosystems Geographic Assessment, Monitoring, & Evaluation) pilot program to provide areas of rural Southern Africa with scientifically well designed CBNRM programs. This grant will support the participation of two graduate students from the United States. The Division of International Programs and the Division of Biological Infrastructure are jointly supporting this workshop.

该奖项将资助22名参与者（8名美国人和14名非洲人）参加将于1998年8月4日至7日在津巴布韦瓜埃河举行的美国-南部非洲野生动物社区管理项目科学基础研讨会。其他与会者包括2名来自欧洲，大约40名来自南部非洲地区，包括南非。联合组织者是博士。加州大学伯克利分校环境科学、政策与管理系的Wayne Getz和Louise Fortmann，以及津巴布韦哈拉雷世界自然基金会项目办公室主任David Cumming博士。这个多学科研讨会将包括自然和社会科学家、资源管理者和决策者。南部非洲的许多地区开始使用基于社区的自然资源管理（CBNRM）项目来保护农村稀树草原，作为扩大国家公园面积的一种手段。目前，在CBNRM项目收集、解释和传播的数据集之间存在很大差异。因此，对这些生态系统没有可靠的区域评估，也没有关于它们如何受到发展和全球变化的影响的评估。在研讨会期间，与会者将了解博茨瓦纳、纳米比亚和津巴布韦的CBNRM项目，之后他们将在以下领域组成工作组：1)环境监测和评估；2)软件和硬件项目；3)社区管理和项目评估。每个小组将确定其数据库需求和要求，然后他们将共同建立一套通用的科学协议和软件包，供所有CBNRM项目用于数据的收集、解释和管理，并用于项目评估。使用这些共同协议和软件包将提高数据收集和评估的可靠性，从而使这些资料能够用于建立一个关于国家公园以外的南部非洲稀树草原生态系统的新的长期区域数据库。建立这样一个数据库将对该区域的科学基础设施作出非常重大的贡献，而且它的可用性还将使全世界的研究人员能够获得关于南部非洲生物多样性丧失的新知识。共同协议还将用于SAVE GAME（南部非洲草原生态系统地理评估、监测和评估）试点项目，为南部非洲农村地区提供科学设计良好的CBNRM项目。这项资助将支持两名来自美国的研究生的参与。国际项目司和生物基础设施司共同支持本次研讨会。