International Research Fellowship Program: Evaluating Sustainable Development on Taiwan

[0305502]国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行3至24个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持Thomas D. Abel博士与台湾台北国立台北大学的Huang Shu-Li博士进行为期12个月的研究。本计划将评估新兴及成长中的“永续旅游”产业对台湾的影响。它将涉及利用生态经济学来评估旅游业发展所带来的可持续性、承载能力以及与自然和人类相关的转变。预期结果将是对大型和小型旅游开发地点进行生态足迹测量。此外，政府亦会编制其他指数，以判断现有及拟议的旅游发展项目的承载能力及强度。人种学研究将衡量现有旅游中心附近家庭的政治经济等级和经济策略的转变。在黄博士的协助下，本研究将使用电脑模型来制作台湾未来可能的情景。本研究将为决策者和研究者提供量化指标。它将证明，在相互依存的全球社会中，相互关联的人类-生态研究对于理解经济发展的后果和利益是有用的。

0305502AbelThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve month research fellowship by Dr. Thomas D. Abel to work with Dr. Shu-Li Huang at the National Taipei University if Taipei, Taiwan.This project will evaluate the impacts of the new and growing "sustainable tourism" industry on Taiwan. It will involve the use of ecological economics to evaluate the sustainability, carrying capacity, and linked natural and human transformations that result from tourism development. Expected results will be the production of ecological footprint measurements of large and small tourism development sites. Other indices will be produced to judge the carrying capacity and intensity of existing and proposed tourism developments. Ethnographic research will measure transformations in political-economic hierarchy and economic strategies of households adjacent to existing tourism centers. With the assistance of Dr. Huang, this study will use computer modeling to produce scenarios of possible Taiwan futures. This research will provide policymakers and researchers with quantitative indicators. It will demonstrate the usefulness of linked human-ecological research for understanding the consequences and benefits of economic development in an interdependent global community.