SEES Fellows: Hoahu, to set aside for the future - understanding sustainability of community based natural resource management through a century of rapid land use change

该项目旨在扩大对社会生态系统如何适应变化的理解。该研究员将在一个模范岛屿系统，即夏威夷ahupuaa（一种传统的夏威夷土地划分单位，沿着分水岭边界组织人类社区）中调查从公共土地所有权到种植园农业，再到在农业土地上开发豪宅的过渡时期，社区自然资源的管理。这项研究将考虑不断变化的获取机制、资源和社区的边界、使用者的权利和责任、资源健康和生态知识。这名研究人员希望阐明自然资源的使用模式——如何为文化目的获取资源，如何共享资源，以及它们不仅为个人，而且为整个社区提供了什么样的文化生态系统服务。该研究将使用地理分析来绘制传统知识和资源利用以及政策和土地利用变化的文化景观，使用视觉和叙事工具来共同展示各种信息来源。这项研究将通过以下方式加强未来以社区为基础的资源管理工作：1)记录快速消失的传统生态知识；2)创建可视化工具来展示过去的环境变化，同时提供基准数据来衡量未来的变化；3)教育未来的领导者如何在地方层面上保护自然资源；4)建立该地区的诗意和讲故事的传统，以多种不同的方式看待相同的景观，以及经常相互冲突的可持续性观点，向非学术受众。该项目采用混合方法，包括面谈、焦点小组和绘制地图，连接了自然资源管理、文化和自然地理学、文化人类学、规划、环境教育和环境研究等领域。这项研究有可能改变管理自然资源的概念框架，并在这一领域实施政策。该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员）计划支持，其目标是帮助实现必要的发现，为导致环境、能源和社会可持续发展的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在see研究员的支持下，该项目将使有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续性相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的职业生涯。

This project seeks to expand understanding of how social-ecological systems adapt to change. The research fellow will investigate community-based natural resource management in a model island system, the Hawaiian ahupuaa (a traditional Hawaiian unit of land division which organized human communities along watershed boundaries) over a time of transition from communal land ownership, to plantation agriculture, to development of luxury homes on agricultural lands. The study will consider changing mechanisms of access, boundaries of both resources and the community, rights and responsibilities of users, resource health, and ecological knowledge. The researcher hopes to illuminate often unseen patterns of natural resource use - how resources are accessed for cultural purposes, how they are shared, and what cultural ecosystem services they provide, not just to individuals, but to entire communities. The study will use geographic analysis to map the cultural landscape of traditional knowledge and resource use alongside policy and land use change, using visual and narrative tools to display diverse sources of information together. This research will enhance future community-based resource management efforts by: 1) documenting fast disappearing traditional ecological knowledge, 2) creating visual tools to display past environmental changes, while providing baseline data against which to measure future changes, 3) educating future leaders on how to care for natural resources at the local level, and 4) building on the area's poetic and storytelling traditions to translate multiple diverse ways of seeing the same landscape, and often conflicting views of sustainability, to non-academic audiences. In utilizing a mixed-methods approach that incorporates interviews, focus groups and mapping the project bridges the fields of natural resource management, cultural and physical geography, cultural anthropology, planning, environmental education and environmental studies. The research offers the potential to transform the conceptual framework within which natural resources are managed and to effect policy within this realm.This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.