Sustainable Environmental Governance in Important Natural Environments: A U.S. - Brazil Collaboration

该项目的目标是巩固一个以自然资源治理为重点的重要网络。自然资源治理涉及与自然资源管理有关的谈判、监测和执行费用，例如，土地、森林、水和矿物。 该网络将汇集来自美国和巴西学术和政府研究机构的学者，并制定长期研究和教育议程。本研究将在理论和实证两方面对自然资源治理的文献作出贡献。此外，它还将产生政策影响。该网络将举行两次规划会议，以制定关于自然资源治理的多年研究和教育议程。该项目的主要研究人员和高级人员在自然资源以及与美国和巴西合作伙伴进行合作研究方面具有广泛的专业知识。该网络的美国主要参与者包括：科罗拉多大学行为科学研究所的机构和环境与社会方案;科罗拉多大学的冲突、合作和创造性治理研究中心;以及威斯康星州大学的拉丁美洲、加勒比和伊比利亚研究中心。巴西的主要参与者包括圣保罗大学环境科学研究生方案;国家亚马逊河研究所;圣克鲁斯州立大学环境与可持续发展研究生方案;马拉尼昂联邦大学社会科学研究生方案。该网络汇集了具有互补性专题和地域专门知识的伙伴。例如，南太平洋大学教授在自然资源治理的各个方面都有专门知识，如森林地区的水管理和社区保护，而其他巴西合作伙伴则位于这些治理问题研究最好的地方。UESC位于世界上最濒危的生态系统之一，南巴伊亚大西洋森林，并有一个强大的环境研究生课程。UFMA位于一个长期以来因土地冲突而闻名的地区。国家保护研究所和史密森尼热带研究所的森林碎片生物动力学项目有兴趣开展合作研究和教育，使自然科学家和社会科学家聚集在一起，更好地了解巴西亚马逊地区的森林退化和土地冲突。该项目的目标是利用集体专门知识研究各种自然资源的治理。

The goal of this project is to solidify an important network focused on governance of natural resources. Natural resource governance entails the negotiation, monitoring and enforcement costs associated with the management of natural resources, e.g., land, forests, water, and minerals. This network will bring together scholars from academic and governmental research institutions in the United States and Brazil, and create a long-term research and educational agenda. The research will contribute both theoretically and empirically to the literature on natural resource governance. In addition it will have policy implications. The network will hold two planning meetings to develop a multi-year research and educational agenda on the governance of natural resources. The principal investigators and senior personnel on this project have extensive expertise in natural resource as well as in conducting collaborative research involving U.S and Brazilian partners. U.S. lead participants in this network include the Institutions and the Environment and Society Programs in the Institute for Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado; the Center for the Study of Conflict, Collaboration, and Creative Governance also at University of Colorado; and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin. Brazilian lead participants include the University of São Paulo Graduate Program in Environmental Science (USP); the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA); the State University of Santa Cruz Graduate Program on Environment and Sustainable Development (UESC); and the Federal University of Maranhão Graduate Program in Social Sciences UFMA). The network brings together partners with complementary topical and geographical expertise. For example, the USP professors have expertise in diverse aspects of natural resource governance such as water management and community-based conservation in forested regions, while the other Brazilian partners are located in places where these governance issues are best studied. UESC resides in one of the world's top endangered ecosystems, the Southern Bahian Atlantic Forest, and has a strong environmental graduate program. UFMA lies in a region long known for conflict over land. The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments project of INPA and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are interested in developing collaborative research and education to bring together natural and social scientists to better understand forest degradation and conflicts over land in the Brazilian Amazon. The goal of the project is to harness the collective expertise to study governance across a range of natural resources.