RAPID: Global Dependence of Livelihoods on Forests and the Impacts of Forest Investments

RAPID：全球生计对森林的依赖以及森林投资的影响

• 批准号: 1636754
• 负责人: Elisabeth Gerber
• 金额: $ 12.42万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1636754&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Global; Dependence; Livelihoods; Forests

General Summary This research addresses the important question of whether sustainable development interventions yield long lasting benefits in the context of the Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme, a multi-donor funded sustainable development initiative implemented in 21 districts in Nepal since 2012. The PIs will leverage data already collected on 4200 households in the MSFP-project area immediately before the 2015 earthquake in Nepal by revisiting the same households for post-disaster data collection to assess the impact of the intervention on the earthquake recovery efforts of households and communities. With this research, the PIs are able to answer questions about the vulnerability of different groups of households to earthquake and other disaster impacts, the key socio-economic and institutional characteristics that structured the effects of the earthquake, and whether individual or collective benefits from the sustainable development initiative better supported earthquake recovery efforts. By identifying the types of project-related benefits with stronger positive effects on household and community level coping capacity, the research will show how international development projects can enhance household and community resilience and support local efforts to cope with disasters more effectively. Data collection for the research will be carried out with the support of in-country partners. The research will also generate a panel dataset with two waves of data collected prior to the earthquake and a new wave of data collected after the earthquake. Technical Summary The research will generate a panel dataset with two waves of data collected prior to the earthquake and a new wave of data collected after the earthquake. The panel dataset will help address enduring questions of interest to political scientists, social scientists more generally, and interdisciplinary scholars interested in sustainable development, disaster recovery, governance, and impact evaluation. The question of whether individual or collective level efforts and support are more effective in enhancing incomes and welfare, coping with variable levels of unanticipated income and asset shocks, and the conditions under which individual or collective efforts are complementary or in competition addresses the very roots of the social-scientific enterprise. By casting the relationships between external interventions and local socio-economic changes in terms of individual vs. community level support and efforts, this research opens the doors to insights from disparate theoretical frameworks used in writings on sustainable development (e.g., around different forms of capitals, entitlements, and livelihoods), disaster recovery (e.g., around vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and resilience), and governance (e.g., around rules, expectations, and institutional analysis). This research will contribute to a new framework focusing on how public capacity-building interventions can be analyzed in terms of the effectiveness of individual vs. collective efforts and contributions in enabling recovery from natural disasters.

本研究探讨了可持续发展干预措施是否能在多利益攸关方林业方案的背景下产生长期效益这一重要问题，该方案是一项由多方捐助者资助的可持续发展倡议，自2012年以来在尼泊尔21个县实施。PI将利用2015年尼泊尔地震前在MSFP项目地区收集的4200户家庭的数据，重新访问相同的家庭进行灾后数据收集，以评估干预措施对家庭和社区地震恢复工作的影响。通过这项研究，参与者能够回答以下问题：不同家庭群体对地震和其他灾害影响的脆弱性，构成地震影响的主要社会经济和体制特征，以及可持续发展倡议的个人或集体利益是否更好地支持了地震恢复工作。通过确定对家庭和社区一级的应对能力具有较强积极影响的项目相关惠益类型，研究将表明国际发展项目如何能够提高家庭和社区的抗灾能力，并支持地方更有效地科普灾害。将在国内合作伙伴的支持下为研究收集数据。该研究还将生成一个面板数据集，其中包含地震前收集的两波数据和地震后收集的新一波数据。该研究将生成一个面板数据集，其中包含地震前收集的两波数据和地震后收集的新一波数据。该小组数据集将有助于解决政治科学家、社会科学家以及对可持续发展、灾难恢复、治理和影响评估感兴趣的跨学科学者感兴趣的持久问题。个人或集体一级的努力和支持在提高收入和福利、应付各种程度的意外收入和资产冲击方面是否更有效，以及个人或集体努力是互补还是竞争的条件，这些问题涉及社会科学事业的根本。通过在个人与社区层面的支持和努力方面塑造外部干预与当地社会经济变化之间的关系，这项研究为可持续发展著作中使用的不同理论框架（例如，围绕不同形式的资本、权利和生计），灾难恢复（例如，围绕脆弱性、适应能力和复原力）和治理（例如，规则、期望和制度分析）。这项研究将有助于建立一个新的框架，重点是如何从个人与集体努力的有效性以及对自然灾害后恢复的贡献的角度分析公共能力建设干预措施。