Doctoral Dissertation Research: Determinants of Livelihood Strategies in a Marine Extractive Reserve.

博士论文研究：海洋采掘保护区生计策略的决定因素。

• 批准号: 1234156
• 负责人: Christian Brannstrom
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1234156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Determinants; Livelihood

This doctoral dissertation research project examines how the establishment of marine extractive reserves (MER) affects livelihood strategies of resource users and investigates how livelihood strategies are lived as compared with the way such strategies were framed by MER institutional frameworks. As a type of community-based conservation strategy, the establishment of marine extractive reserves aims to protect biodiversity as well as traditional communities and their livelihoods. By considering the case of the Cassurubá MER in northeast Brazil, the institutions of the MER and the processes and territorial practices surrounding its establishment will be examined through a combination of an analysis of planning and management documents, household surveys, and interviews with key actors. This mixed methods approach will illuminate how resource users have used livelihood strategies to contest or adjust to what was expected in the institutional construction of the MER, and by extension, of this type of community-based conservation strategy. This research has the potential to inform conservation initiatives and policy. MERs are being widely implemented in places throughout the world where traditional livelihoods and conservation need to coexist. It will also inform scholarship and research, likely suggesting that a more flexible approach in the institutional framing of extractive reserves will permit a closer alignment with the actual livelihood practices of resource users. The household livelihood data will be used to create a 'Livelihoods Teaching Module' to be implemented in an undergraduate course at Texas A&M University. Through the engagement with this model students will discover the processes that influence the livelihoods of small-scale resource users in Latin America and elsewhere. The research findings will be shared with the resource users of the MER, local key actors, and will be broadly disseminated via scientific conferences and publications. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career.

本博士论文研究项目探讨了海洋开采保护区（MER）的建立如何影响资源使用者的生计战略，并调查了生计战略是如何与MER制度框架的方式相比。 作为一种以社区为基础的保护战略，建立海洋开采保护区的目的是保护生物多样性以及传统社区及其生计。 通过审议巴西东北部的Cassurubá MER的案例，将通过对规划和管理文件的分析、家庭调查和与关键行为者的访谈，对MER的机构以及围绕其建立的程序和地区做法进行审查。 这种混合方法的方法将阐明资源使用者如何使用生计战略来竞争或调整MER的机构建设中所期望的内容，并通过扩展，这种类型的以社区为基础的保护战略。这项研究有可能为保护倡议和政策提供信息。 在世界各地传统生计和养护需要共存的地方，市场汇率正在得到广泛实施。 它还将为学术和研究提供信息，可能表明在采掘储备的体制框架中采取更灵活的方法将使其与资源使用者的实际生计做法更加一致。 家庭生计数据将被用来创建一个“生计教学模块”，在得克萨斯州农工大学的本科课程实施。 通过参与这一模式，学生将发现影响拉丁美洲和其他地方小规模资源用户生计的过程。 研究结果将与海洋环境报告的资源使用者、当地主要行为者分享，并将通过科学会议和出版物广泛传播。 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独立的研究生涯。