Doctoral Dissertation: Localized Patterns of Resource Use - An Examination of Household - Level Wood Use in Tanzania, East Africa

摘要0001886本项目将结合制度经济学（共同财产理论）和人类进化生态学（决策理论）来研究坦桑尼亚农牧系统的可持续木材利用。研究人员将以资源可持续性和人类/环境影响问题为重点，查明造成不同家庭木材使用的行为机制，并量化鲁克瓦地区两个民族的木材消耗率。将检验关于影响木材消费模式的因素的两个假设。方法包括三个村庄的入户调查、结构化访谈、焦点小组以及木材采伐和树种生长的定量测量。这项研究将有助于我们了解土著资源保护价值与人口资源利用对保护的实际影响之间的关系。

Abstract 0001886This project will integrate institutional economics (common property theory) and human evolutionary ecology (decision theory) to investigate sustainable wood use in an agropastoralist system in Tanzania. Focusing on issues of resource sustainability and human/environmental impacts, the researcher will identify the behavioral mechanisms that shape differential household wood use, and quantify rates of wood consumption in two ethnic groups of the Rukwa Region. Two hypotheses regarding the factors that shape wood consumption patterns will be tested. Methods include household surveys in three villages, structured interviewing, focus groups, and quantitative measures of wood extraction and tree species growth. This study will contribute to our understanding of the relationship between indigenous values on resource conservation and the actual effects of population resource use on conservation.