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

这个项目将结合制度经济学(公共财产理论)和人类进化生态学(决策理论)来研究坦桑尼亚农牧系统中木材的可持续利用。以资源可持续性和人类/环境影响为重点，研究人员将确定影响家庭木材使用差异的行为机制，并量化鲁克瓦地区两个民族的木材消耗率。关于塑造木材消费模式的因素的两个假设将被检验。方法包括三个村庄的住户调查、结构化访谈、焦点小组以及木材提取和树种生长的量化措施。这项研究将有助于我们理解土著资源保护价值观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.