Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Examining the Resilience and Adaptation of Traditional Resource Management Institutions in the Mosquitia Corridor of Mesoamerica

DRMS 博士论文研究：考察中美洲蚊子走廊传统资源管理机构的弹性和适应性

• 批准号: 0512967
• 负责人: Elinor Ostrom
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0512967&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Examining

This doctoral research investigates resource users' responses to agricultural expansion and the role of protected area tenure policies on local land-use decision-making in the Mosquitia Biological Corridor of eastern Honduras and northern Nicaragua. The ability of traditional resource users to craft appropriate conservation institutions in response to economic and demographic changes is hotly contested by both social and natural scientists. In Latin America, increasing pressure for farm and range lands challenge traditional natural resource management systems and threaten previously remote forest lands. This study compares the evolution of local land-use institutions in the context of two UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the Mosquitia Corridor: the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras and BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua. While the two reserves share similar demographic and ecological characteristics, the Rio Platano management policies have limited residents' rights to the land and its resources. In contrast, BOSAWAS policies have generally enhanced resident resource management and land tenure security. Both reserves are threatened by outside encroachment. In each reserve, community-level case studies will identify current land-use norms, resident perceptions of major changes in land-use and resident perceptions of tenure security. The community studies will be compared to previous anthropological studies of land-use practices in the region and will be combined with an analysis of protected area policies and participatory processes in each reserve. Satellite images will be used to analyze forest cover change with respect to protected area policies and local land-use practices. The different policies related to protected area tenure offer an ideal setting to examine how local communities are responding to agricultural expansion and to test how tenure security influences rule-making and enforcement activities.

本博士研究调查资源使用者对农业扩张的反应，以及保护区保有权政策对洪都拉斯东部和尼加拉瓜北方莫斯基蒂亚生物走廊当地土地利用决策的作用。 传统资源使用者是否有能力针对经济和人口变化建立适当的保护机构，这一点受到社会科学家和自然科学家的激烈质疑。在拉丁美洲，对农田和牧场的压力越来越大，对传统的自然资源管理制度提出了挑战，并威胁到以前偏远的林地。本研究比较了当地土地使用机构的演变的背景下，在Mosquitia走廊的两个教科文组织生物圈保护区：里约普拉塔诺生物圈保护区，洪都拉斯和BOSAWAS生物圈保护区，尼加拉瓜。 虽然这两个保护区有着相似的人口和生态特征，但Rio Platano的管理政策限制了居民对土地及其资源的权利。 相比之下，泛西非理事会的政策普遍加强了居民资源管理和土地保有权保障。 这两个保护区都受到了外部侵蚀的威胁。 在每个保留地，社区一级的个案研究将查明目前的土地使用规范、居民对土地使用重大变化的看法以及居民对土地保有权保障的看法。将把社区研究与以前对该区域土地使用做法的人类学研究相比较，并将结合对保护区政策和每个保留地的参与进程的分析。卫星图像将用于分析森林覆盖面变化与保护区政策和当地土地使用做法的关系。与保护区保有权有关的不同政策为研究当地社区如何应对农业扩张以及测试保有权保障如何影响规则制定和执行活动提供了理想的环境。