CNH: Interactive Dynamics of Wildlife Populations, Human Health and Household Wealth in Rural Africa

CNH：非洲农村地区野生动物种群、人类健康和家庭财富的互动动态

• 批准号: 1115057
• 负责人: Justin Brashares
• 金额: $ 146万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1115057&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CNH; Interactive; Dynamics; Wildlife; Populations

This project integrates ecology, economics, sociology and public health to illuminate and predict a) how human health and household wealth separately and interactively affect human reliance on biodiversity, and b) how harvested biodiversity impacts household wealth and human health. Data collection occurs at the level of individuals and households at nine rural sites in Ghana, Kenya and Madagascar where, like many regions of the world, communities are economically marginalized and the sustainable use of natural resources is essential to livelihoods, health and survival. The systems-based model developed through this integration across disciplines will provide a framework to compare the relative importance of ecological, socioeconomic or health factors for the sustainability of ecosystems and societies. Furthermore, by quantifying and incorporating nonlinear and coupled feedbacks among human and natural systems this model also will inform efforts to assess the immediate and long term impacts of environmental and social shocks (e.g., climate change, drought, fisheries collapse, disease emergence, social unrest) on resource and livelihood sustainability.In addition to bringing together a group of researchers who venture beyond disciplinary boundaries to build a new model of integration, this project will have direct and prolonged impacts on education, international collaboration, capacity building, health outcomes, poverty alleviation and sustainability. The project?s commitment to outreach, engagement and capacity building in Africa ensures that it will provide invaluable international experience to U.S.-based students and lifelong collaborations and associations for all individuals and institutions involved in the research effort. Project results and the framework created by this research will be of great practical value to agencies (e.g., USAID, FAO, WHO, UNEP, IUCN) and non-governmental organizations (e.g., WCS, CI, WWF, CARE, CRS) who can provide policy pathways for poverty alleviation, natural resource sustainability, economic development, biodiversity conservation, and the improvement of health outcomes.

该项目将生态学、经济学、社会学和公共卫生结合起来，阐明和预测a)人类健康和家庭财富如何分别和相互作用地影响人类对生物多样性的依赖，b)生物多样性的收获如何影响家庭财富和人类健康。数据收集工作在加纳、肯尼亚和马达加斯加的9个农村地点的个人和家庭一级进行，与世界上许多地区一样，这些地区的社区在经济上处于边缘地位，可持续利用自然资源对生计、健康和生存至关重要。通过这种跨学科整合开发的基于系统的模型将提供一个框架，以比较生态、社会经济或健康因素对生态系统和社会可持续性的相对重要性。此外，通过量化和纳入人类和自然系统之间的非线性和耦合反馈，该模型还将为评估环境和社会冲击（如气候变化、干旱、渔业崩溃、疾病出现、社会动荡）对资源和生计可持续性的直接和长期影响提供信息。除了将一组跨越学科界限的研究人员聚集在一起，建立一种新的整合模式外，该项目还将对教育、国际合作、能力建设、卫生成果、减轻贫困和可持续性产生直接和长期的影响。这个项目吗?美国致力于在非洲的拓展、参与和能力建设，确保它将为在美国的学生提供宝贵的国际经验，并为参与研究工作的所有个人和机构提供终身合作和协会。本研究的项目成果和框架将对各机构（如美国国际开发署、联合国粮农组织、世界卫生组织、联合国环境规划署、世界自然保护联盟）和非政府组织（如世界自然基金会、世界自然基金会、援外合作组织、世界自然保护协会）具有重要的实用价值，它们可以为减轻贫困、自然资源可持续性、经济发展、保护生物多样性和改善健康状况提供政策途径。