Dissertation Research: Local Institutions and Management of a Belize Common Property Fishery

公共财产资源远没有“公共悲剧”模型所显示的那么脆弱，生态人类学家对维持这种资源的土著或地方社区管理系统做出了许多有价值的案例研究。这篇论文是由宾夕法尼亚州立大学人类学专业的一名学生完成的，研究的对象是伯利兹的一个渔业社区。该项目的目标是衡量龙虾渔民的借贷和投资行为、家庭结构和捕鱼行为之间的关系。假说将基于预测贷款和投资策略以及家庭构成影响捕鱼行为的模型进行检验，特别是小龙虾的收获。研究方法包括参与者观察法、非正式非结构化访谈和结构化访谈以及人口普查。该项目的贡献将是推动处理当地社区资源管理机构和做法成败的一般理论。这一研究结果将对关注公共财产资源管理的理论家和政策规划者具有一定的参考价值。

Common property resources are much less fragile than the `tragedy of the commons` model suggests, and ecological anthropologists have contributed many valuable case studies of native or local community management systems which maintain such resources. This dissertation research project by an anthropology student from Pennsylvania State University studies a fishing community in Belize. The project's objective is to measure the relationships between lobster fishermen's lending and investment behavior, household composition, and fishing behavior. Hypotheses will be tested based on models predicting that lending and investment strategies and household composition influence fishing behavior, especially the harvest of under-sized lobsters. Methods include participant observation, informal-unstructured and structured interviews, and a census. The contribution of the project will be to advance the general theory dealing with the success and failure of local community resource management institutions and practices. The results from this study will be valuable to theorists and policy planners concerned with the management of common property resources.