CAREER: Human Dimensions to Marine Resource Utilization in the Solomon Islands: Fostering Pacific Island Student Participation in Research and Educational Activities

当可识别的群体有权访问原则上可排除、可转让和可强制执行的资源时，就会发生习惯海洋保有权。这个职业项目是一个为期五年的研究，将所罗门群岛新乔治亚州的传统海洋保有权机构和海洋资源利用研究与一个长期教育方案结合起来，旨在将太平洋岛屿后裔的美国学生纳入研究和教育活动。这项研究侧重于影响人类共同财产制度的关键社会文化、经济、政治、环境和历史因素。该项目将评估该区域传统海洋保有权机构的主要历史、社会、文化、经济和政治条件。这将包括历史、社会、政治、经济、人口和生态因素，这些因素可能允许一些机构在环境可持续性、社会公平和制度耐力方面取得成功，也可能导致其他机构失败。将分析最适合适应当代人口、经济、政治和社会变化的体制条件。在本案例研究中，研究共同财产机构的动态和加强社会行为者之间合作的因素将促进我们对鼓励利益攸关方保护其海洋资源的条件的了解。这项研究的更广泛影响，除了促进一位年轻社会科学家的职业生涯外，还将是它对太平洋地区的自然资源保护者和政策制定者的价值。该项目创造的新知识将帮助他们了解哪些海洋保有权计划可能产生成功的管理计划，哪些可能失败，这将帮助他们制定渔业管理倡议，如海洋保护区(MPA)。这项研究的教育部分也具有广泛的影响。太平洋岛国学生是一个在科学和人文学科中往往代表性不足的群体，他们的参与将为参与者提供跨学科边界的定性和定量方法培训。这项培训对学员未来的科学研究生涯将是非常宝贵的，并将提高学员的环境意识和教育。

0238539AswaniCustomary sea tenure occurs when identifiable groups of people have rights to access resources that are in principle excludable, transferable, and enforceable. This CAREER project is a five-year study that integrates research on customary sea tenure institutions and marine resource utilization in New Georgia, Solomon Islands, with a long-term educational program designed to include American students of Pacific Island descent in research and educational activities. The research focuses on key socio-cultural, economic, political, environmental, and historical factors that affect human common property regimes. The project will assess the major historical, social, cultural, economic, and political conditions of customary sea tenure institutions in the region. This will include the historical, social, political, economic, demographic, and ecological factors that may allow some institutions to succeed and others to fail in terms of environmental sustainability, social equity, and institutional endurance. The institutional conditions best suited to adapt to contemporary demographic, economic, political and social changes will be analyzed. Studying the dynamics of common property institutions and the factors that enhance cooperation amongst social actors in this case study will advance our understanding of the conditions that encourage stakeholders to protect their marine resources. The broader impacts of this research, aside from advancing the career of a young social scientist, will be its value to conservationists and policy makers in the Pacific Region. The new knowledge created by the project will to help them understand which sea-tenure programs are likely to generate successful management programs and which are likely to fail, which will help them to formulate fisheries management initiatives like marine protected areas (MPAs). The educational component of this research also has broad implications. The involvement of Pacific Island students, a group that is often underrepresented in the sciences and humanities, will give participants training in qualitative and quantitative methods that expand across disciplinary boundaries. This training will be invaluable for the participants' future research careers in science, and will enhance the participants' environmental awareness and education.