Conference: Large-Scale Land-Use Transformations: Implications for Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience

会议：大规模土地利用转型：对社会生态系统和恢复力的影响

• 批准号: 1561106
• 负责人: Jennifer Hodbod
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-01 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561106&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Large; Scale; Land; Use

This project brings together researchers from various disciplines working on linked ecological and social change to examine the effects of large-scale land-use change associated with developments such as plantation agriculture and the construction of dams on environmental and socio-economic sustainability. The project will focus on the Omo-Turkana Basin and support a workshop allowing local and international researchers to share experiences and synthesize existing knowledge about developments in the region using a social-ecological resilience framework. The workshop will open up opportunities for future multi-disciplinary research by supporting the formation of an umbrella organization for ongoing research in the region, strengthening linkages between researchers, and allowing members to develop collaborative research agendas. International students and early career researchers are also well represented, enhancing the network's capacity for future growth. A wider outcome of the workshop and network will be to inform decision-makers in the region of the results of on-going research, contributing scientifically robust evidence to better inform debate among policymakers and the public. In addition to a multi-disciplinary, landscape-scale situation analysis, the workshop will generate a series of policy briefs to facilitate the dissemination of outputs to non-academic audiences.The project engages the concept of resilience and will use the workshop to advance the idea of resilience assessment. An objective of the workshop and research network will be to ascertain whether the large-scale land-use change occurring in the Omo-Turkana region supports the economic and social goals declared by project planners, or whether economic growth is being prioritized over the quality and resilience of environmental and social systems. Given the landscape-wide impact of development in the Omo-Turkana Basin, a theoretical basis is required that integrates contributions from multiple disciplines and therefore represents all elements of a social-ecological system. Resilience is one such theory, and this project will contribute to the literature by using the strong representation of social and political sciences in the network to better address equity and power relations within a resilience framing. Such a framing has generalizable relevance for other contexts, and as such, should be useful to science and society well beyond the specific case at hand.

该项目汇集了致力于相互关联的生态和社会变化的不同学科的研究人员，以审查与种植园、农业和修建水坝等开发相关的大规模土地利用变化对环境和社会经济可持续性的影响。该项目将侧重于奥莫-图尔卡纳盆地，并支持举办讲习班，使当地和国际研究人员能够分享经验，并利用社会-生态复原力框架综合关于该地区发展的现有知识。讲习班将为未来的多学科研究提供机会，支持为该地区正在进行的研究建立一个伞式组织，加强研究人员之间的联系，并允许成员制定合作研究议程。国际学生和早期职业研究人员也得到了很好的代表，增强了该网络未来增长的能力。讲习班和网络的一个更广泛的成果将是向该区域的决策者通报正在进行的研究的结果，为更好地为决策者和公众之间的辩论提供科学有力的证据。除了多学科、全景式的形势分析外，讲习班还将编制一系列政策简报，以便利向非学术受众传播成果。该项目涉及复原力的概念，并将利用讲习班推进复原力评估的想法。讲习班和研究网络的一个目标是确定奥莫-图尔卡纳地区正在发生的大规模土地利用变化是否支持项目规划者宣布的经济和社会目标，或者是否将经济增长置于环境和社会系统的质量和复原力之上。鉴于奥莫-图尔卡纳盆地开发对整个景观的影响，需要一个理论基础，将多个学科的贡献结合起来，从而代表社会生态系统的所有要素。复原力就是这样一种理论，该项目将利用社会和政治科学在网络中的强大代表性，在复原力框架内更好地处理公平和权力关系，从而为文献做出贡献。这样的框架与其他背景具有普遍的相关性，因此，对科学和社会应该是有用的，远远超出了手头的具体情况。