Doctoral Dissertation Reseach in DRMS: From individual decisions to collective action for biodiversity conservation: Networked governance of private reserves in Colombia.

DRMS 博士论文研究：从个人决策到生物多样性保护集体行动：哥伦比亚私人保护区的网络化治理。

• 批准号: 1325107
• 负责人: Karen Kainer
• 金额: $ 4.7万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1325107&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Reseach; DRMS; individual

Colombia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, and broader societal participation is urgently needed to prevent ecosystem degradation, extinction of irreplaceable endemic species, and fair distribution of natural resource benefits. In rural Colombia, however, where biodiversity, ecosystem services, and local livelihoods intersect, pervasive inequity and social unrest has persisted for decades and challenged sustainable development progress. Nonetheless, in the midst of those difficulties, some rural communities have self-organized to integrate their livelihoods with biodiversity conservation. Examples of those grassroots initiatives are the Networks of Reserves of the Civil Society, known locally as "Redes de Reservas de la Sociedad Civil" which emerged 20 years ago as a conservation and development initiative in the Southern Colombian Andes and now boasts of more than 400 Reserves most of them owned by small farmers. These reserves play an important role in protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services, and many are officially considered part of Colombia's National System of Protected Areas. This research explores the factors that motivate farmers and rural landowners to strive for a balance between conservation and rural development through those grassroots initiatives, and to assess the effectiveness of these reserves in terms of conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Considering biodiversity and ecosystem services as common pool resources in urgent need of sustainable management, the researchers focus on resource users and the governance system, two components of the theoretical framework for socio-ecological systems developed by the late Nobel Laureate, Elinor Ostrom. This research explores both socio-economic factors, the farmers' psychological characteristics, and personal social/professional networks. Elements of social-psychology theories of Value-Belief-Norm and Self-determination are incorporated to analyze decision making at the individual level. Social networks analysis are used to understand how structural properties of land owners' informal and formal personal networks influence social learning and participation on decisions for natural resource governance. This study will provide new insights from the under-represented perspective of small rural landowners - information that can directly contribute to the design of public policies that advance both biodiversity conservation and community well-being. Improvement of rural livelihoods is vital to foster economic stability, food security, and better and diverse sources of legal employment; and ultimately, to advance the goals of social stability, national security and democracy. Results from this research will provide new insights on the factors that foster or hinder conservation and sustainable rural development.

哥伦比亚是世界上生物多样性最丰富的国家之一，迫切需要更广泛的社会参与，以防止生态系统退化、不可替代的特有物种灭绝以及自然资源利益的公平分配。然而，在生物多样性、生态系统服务和当地生计相互交织的哥伦比亚农村，普遍存在的不平等和社会动荡持续了几十年，对可持续发展进程构成了挑战。尽管如此，在这些困难中，一些农村社区已自行组织起来，将其生计与生物多样性养护结合起来。这些基层倡议的例子是民间社会保留地网络，当地称为“民间社会保留地网络”，20年前作为哥伦比亚南部安第斯山脉的一项保护和发展倡议出现，现在拥有400多个保留地，其中大多数为小农所有。这些保护区在保护生物多样性和生态系统服务方面发挥着重要作用，许多保护区被正式视为哥伦比亚国家保护区系统的一部分。本研究探讨了激励农民和农村土地所有者通过这些基层举措争取保护和农村发展之间的平衡的因素，并评估这些保护区在保护和可持续生计方面的有效性。考虑到生物多样性和生态系统服务是迫切需要可持续管理的共同池资源，研究人员重点关注资源使用者和治理系统，这是已故诺贝尔奖获得者埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆提出的社会生态系统理论框架的两个组成部分。本研究探讨了社会经济因素、农民的心理特征和个人社会/职业网络。社会心理学的价值信念规范和自我决定理论的元素被纳入分析决策在个人层面上。社交网络分析被用来了解土地所有者的非正式和正式的个人网络的结构特性如何影响社会学习和参与自然资源治理的决策。 这项研究将提供新的见解，从代表性不足的角度来看，农村小土地所有者的信息，可以直接有助于公共政策的设计，促进生物多样性保护和社区福祉。改善农村生计对于促进经济稳定、粮食安全以及更好和多样化的法律的就业来源至关重要;最终对于推进社会稳定、国家安全和民主的目标至关重要。这项研究的结果将为促进或阻碍保护和可持续农村发展的因素提供新的见解。