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

论文研究：伯利兹共同财产渔业的地方机构和管理

• 批准号: 9806978
• 负责人: E. Paul Durrenberger
• 金额: $ 0.96万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 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: 1998-09-01 至 2000-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9806978&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Local; Institutions; Management

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.

公共财产资源远没有"公地悲剧"模型所显示的那样脆弱，生态人类学家提供了许多关于维持这种资源的土著或地方社区管理制度的宝贵案例研究。本论文研究对象为美国宾西法尼亚州立大学人类学系的一位学生，研究对象为伯利兹的一个渔业社区。该项目的目的是衡量龙虾渔民的借贷和投资行为，家庭组成和捕鱼行为之间的关系。 将根据预测贷款和投资战略以及家庭组成影响捕鱼行为，特别是捕捞小型龙虾的模型对假设进行检验。 方法包括参与者观察，非正式的非结构化和结构化的访谈，以及人口普查。该项目的贡献将是推进有关地方社区资源管理机构和做法的成败的一般理论。 本研究的结果将对关注公共财产资源管理的理论家和政策规划者有价值。