Dissertation Research: Aboriginal ecosystem management as a socio-natural system

论文研究：原住民生态系统管理作为一个社会自然系统

• 批准号: 0211377
• 负责人: Benjamin Orlove
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0211377&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Aboriginal; ecosystem; management

Fire is a powerful resource management tool, perhaps the oldest to be used by humans. Through the use of fire to open up forests and woodlands, establish grasslands and encourage the establishment of species beneficial to human survival, humans have modified ecosystems such that they have become dependent upon anthropogenic fire for maintenance. This dissertation research project studies the socio-natural system of fire that has resulted from the repeated actions and reactions of both social and natural processes in Western Australia. The student, a human ecologist from University of California, Davis, will explore the relationship between Australian Aboriginal management practices and the distribution and abundance of vegetation communities and kangaroo populations in the Kimberley region of tropical Australia. Analysis of the Aboriginal human-nature interaction will focus on the interactions between three components of the socio-natural system: resource use, management practice and reproductive biology. A two-fold approach to analyzing Aboriginal ecosystem management with fire will be carried out, using both ethnographic and ecological research methodologies. This research will document indigenous land management in a contemporary context while situating that context historically. Fire encapsulates the Aboriginal relationship with land, yet Western settlers and land management agencies heavily circumscribe fire practice. Improving fire management is a priority both within and beyond Australia, and this research contributes to that need.

火是一种强大的资源管理工具，也许是人类使用的最古老的工具。 通过使用火来开辟森林和林地，建立草原，并鼓励建立有利于人类生存的物种，人类已经改变了生态系统，使它们变得依赖人为的火来维持。 本论文研究项目研究了火灾的社会自然系统，该系统是由西澳大利亚州社会和自然过程的反复作用和反应造成的。 这名学生是来自加州大学戴维斯分校的人类生态学家，他将探索澳大利亚土著管理实践与澳大利亚热带金伯利地区植被群落和袋鼠种群的分布和丰富程度之间的关系。土著人与自然的互动分析将侧重于社会自然系统三个组成部分之间的互动：资源使用、管理做法和生殖生物学。一个双重的方法来分析土著生态系统管理与火将进行，使用人种学和生态研究方法。这项研究将记录当代背景下的土著土地管理，同时历史地定位这一背景。 火概括了原住民与土地的关系，但西方定居者和土地管理机构严重限制了火的做法。 改善火灾管理是澳大利亚国内外的优先事项，这项研究有助于满足这一需求。