Doctoral Dissertation Research: Shihuahuaco (Dipteryx spp.) and the Chinese Timber Trade

地方行动的配置，如资源开采，以及国家或全球结构，如监管机构，被描述为相互创造性。然而，监管的意图和行为者的实际做法之间可能存在重大差异，特别是在资源繁荣的背景下。本博士论文研究项目将结合对石花树木材(Dipteryx spp.)以及评估秘鲁和全球林业政策与木材开采和贸易现实之间相互作用的综合机构办法。博士生将考虑在森林治理结构调整的背景下，由各组行业参与者制定供给安排，以满足中国的新需求。这项贸易研究的结果将与石花湖采伐后更新生态的原始研究相关联，过去十年来，石花湖一直是秘鲁亚马逊向中国出口热潮的主题。该项目将整合和推进包括政治生态学、人文地理学和林业在内的几个学科的思考。它将评估国家和全球林业政策与木材开采和贸易现实之间的相互作用，并特别注意将社会政治结论与对阔叶木木材采伐后更新生态的研究相关联。这项研究还将带来实际好处，因为它将使决策者能够从森林资源的可持续管理以及全球机构推动的林业战略方面评估当前的森林政策。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。

The configurations of local action, such as resource extraction, and national or global structures, such as regulatory institutions, have been described as mutually creative. Significant differences may exist between the intention of regulation and the actual practices of actors, however, particularly in the context of a resource boom. This doctoral dissertation research project will link a commodity-chains analysis of the trade in shihuahuaco timber (Dipteryx spp.) and an integrated agent-structure approach to assess the interplay between Peruvian and global forestry policy and the realities of timber extraction and trade. The doctoral candidate will consider the development of supply arrangements by various sets of industry actors to satisfy new demand from China in the context of structural adjustments to forest governance. The results of this trade study will be correlated to original research on the post-logging regeneration ecology of shihuahuaco, which has been the subject of an export boom from Peruvian Amazonia to China over the last decade.This project will integrate and advance thinking from several disciplines, including political ecology, human geography, and forestry. It will assess the interplay between national and global forestry policy and the realities of timber extraction and trade, with special attention given to correlating sociopolitical findings with research on the post-logging regeneration ecology of hardwood timber. The research also will have practical benefits, as it will enable policy makers to assess current forest policy in terms of the sustainable management of forest resources as well as forestry strategies promoted by global institutions. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.