Doctoral Dissertation Research: Models of Socio-ecological Resilience in Response to Environmental Change

博士论文研究：应对环境变化的社会生态复原力模型

• 批准号: 1756367
• 负责人: Jerry Jacka
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-02-15 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Models; Socio

Theories of socioecological resilience have attempted to understand how and why systems return to an equilibrium state after a disturbance. More recent research has demonstrated resilience to be more fluid, a dynamic and adaptive response that develops create capacities over time. Using a panarchy model of resilience, which recognizes the ongoing tensions between stability and change, this project seeks to understand how events of varied temporal and spatial and speeds can reciprocally influence produce unpredictable outcomes. The project, which trains a student in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, would enhance scientific understanding by broadly disseminating findings to organizations engaged in modeling socio-ecological resilience and mitigating the impacts of environmental change. Emily Hite, under the supervision of Dr. Jerry Jacka of the University of Colorado at Boulder, will explore the processes by which a diversity of perspectives at multiple scales inform the development and implementation of policy, and the ways in which policy implementation relates to social-ecological resiliency and the production of space and place through time. The research will be conducted in Costa Rica, an ideal site for asking these questions because it is an international leader in renewable energy production and sustainable development, and a policy commitment to becoming one of the world's first carbon neutral countries. This plan relies on completing the Diquís Hydroelectric Project in southwestern Puntarenas Province. However, the Térraba indigenous peoples living in the area have conflicting perspectives regarding the project's potential social, environmental, and economic transformations on their culture, livelihoods, and landscape. The researchers will conduct anthropological research in Térraba and the capital, San José, to better understand the diversity of perspectives of and responses to climate policy, how they are formed, and how they inform policy development. The research team will collect social, ecological, and ethnographic data using participant observation, interviews, household surveys, focus groups, and surveys of plant and animal species used by Térraba peoples. The diversity of qualitative and quantitative data will provide a more comprehensive understanding of how local people are impacted by universal climate policy mechanisms and attempts at the nation-state level to implement those mechanisms.

社会生态复原力理论试图理解系统如何以及为什么在干扰后恢复到平衡状态。最近的研究表明，复原力更具流动性，是一种动态和适应性的反应，随着时间的推移而发展创造能力。该项目使用一个恢复力的泛政府模型，该模型认识到稳定与变化之间的持续紧张关系，旨在了解不同时空和速度的事件如何产生不可预测的结果。该项目培训学生掌握经验性科学数据收集和分析方法，将通过向参与社会生态复原力建模和减轻环境变化影响的组织广泛传播研究结果，加强科学认识。艾米丽海特，博士的监督下科罗拉多大学在博尔德，将探索的过程中，在多个尺度的观点的多样性通知政策的制定和实施，以及政策实施的方式涉及社会生态弹性和生产的空间和地点通过时间。这项研究将在哥斯达黎加进行，这是提出这些问题的理想地点，因为它是可再生能源生产和可持续发展的国际领导者，并致力于成为世界上第一个碳中和国家之一。该计划依赖于完成位于蓬塔雷纳斯省西南部的Diquís水电项目。然而，生活在该地区的Térraba土著人民对该项目可能对他们的文化，生计和景观造成的社会，环境和经济变革有着相互矛盾的观点。研究人员将在特拉巴和首都圣何塞进行人类学研究，以更好地了解气候政策的观点和反应的多样性，它们是如何形成的，以及它们如何为政策制定提供信息。研究小组将通过参与者观察、访谈、家庭调查、焦点小组以及对特拉巴人使用的植物和动物物种的调查，收集社会、生态和人种学数据。定性和定量数据的多样性将使人们更全面地了解当地人民如何受到普遍气候政策机制的影响，以及民族国家一级实施这些机制的努力。