US-Australia planning visit: Social dimensions of ecosystem service provision from ecological restoration projects

美澳规划访问：生态恢复项目提供生态系统服务的社会层面

• 批准号: 1427595
• 负责人: Virginia Matzek
• 金额: $ 3.96万
• 依托单位: Santa Clara University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1427595&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Australia; planning; visit; Social

This proposal seeks to create a new intellectual partnership between US- and Australia-based researchers to explore the dynamics of a coupled natural-human system: the restoration of ecosystems to provide ecological services. The foreign collaborators are conservation ecologist Kerrie Wilson (University of Queensland), and environmental economist Marit Kragt (University of Western Australia). Increasingly, societies are calling on ecological restoration not just to reverse the degradation of habitats for flora and fauna, but to yield valuable material and non-material benefits to humans, such as water quality, carbon sequestration, pollination, and recreational opportunities. This work will explore an understudied social dimension of ecological restoration through a series of stakeholder surveys. It aims to elucidate the relationship between what people know, how much they care, and whether they act.This research asks the basic question, "How does what people know influence how they act?" Answering this question is fundamental to understanding what makes for "actionable science," and to developing resilient natural-human systems, shaped by people to meet their needs sustainably. Our pilot study will advance understanding of a major component of the socio-ecological system surrounding habitat restoration, while laying the groundwork for future work that will explore how stakeholders, scientists, land managers, and policymakers interact with ecosystems to determine ecological trajectories. The findings will be directly useful to resource management, especially conservation planners and restoration practitioners. The project will lend international experience to an early-career, female scientist exploring a new scientific direction under the mentorship of the foreign collaborators. An undergraduate student will be trained in research and teaching skills, and the PI?s experience with new methods will enrich coursework at a primarily undergraduate institution.

该建议旨在在美国和澳大利亚的研究人员之间建立新的知识伙伴关系，以探索耦合的天然人类系统的动态：恢复生态系统以提供生态服务。外国合作者是保护生态学家Kerrie Wilson（昆士兰州大学）和环境经济学家Marit Kragt（西澳大利亚大学）。社会越来越多地呼吁生态恢复不仅扭转动植物的栖息地的退化，还要扭转对人类的宝贵材料和非物质利益，例如水质，碳固执，授粉和娱乐机会。这项工作将通过一系列利益相关者的调查探索生态恢复的经验研究的社会层面。它旨在阐明人们所知道的关系，关心的程度以及他们是否采取行动之间的关系。这项研究提出了一个基本的问题：“人们知道如何影响他们的行为？”回答这个问题是理解什么使“可行科学”和发展有弹性的天然人类系统的基础，人们塑造了人们可持续地满足他们的需求。我们的试点研究将促进围绕栖息地恢复的社会生态系统的主要组成部分的理解，同时为将来的工作奠定基础，以探讨利益相关者，科学家，土地经理和政策制定者如何与生态系统互动以确定生态轨迹。这些发现将对资源管理，尤其是保护计划者和恢复从业人员直接有用。该项目将在外国合作者的指导下探索一个早期职业的女性科学家，探索一个新的科学指导。一名本科生将接受研究和教学技能的培训，而PI的新方法的经验将在主要的本科机构中丰富课程。