Predictors of Successful Between-Community Cooperation in Effective Resource Management

有效资源管理中社区间合作成功的预测因素

• 批准号: 2020501
• 负责人: Anne Pisor
• 金额: $ 39.54万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Predictors; Successful; Between; Community; Cooperation

Resource management and conservation initiatives often require that communities work together to manage or conserve forests, grasslands, watersheds, and fisheries. While development partners emphasize scaling up the initiatives that work to new locations, we still understand little about when and why communities do or do not work together to manage or conserve, impeding successful scaling up and potentially leading to an inefficient use of donor dollars. This project, conducted in collaboration with a coastal community network that is funded by US Forest Service, unifies research from across academia and the development world to make concrete predictions about when and why communities work together in resource management. It will fund and train a postdoctoral researcher, a graduate student, and nine research team members in scientific research methods. The project will generate a set of guidelines for how development partners can select pilot sites where between-community cooperation is likely to succeed; with limited hurdles to cooperation, partners can then work out other obstacles to scaling up before expanding their initiatives.This project investigates whether individuals’ concerns about what happens to neighboring communities, plus their connections with those communities, promotes successful resource management. Until now, ideas about what might promote between-community cooperation have remained largely theoretical and have usually been evaluated in the laboratory. This project involves on-the-ground data collection in 32 communities, where the project team will collect individual-level data about attitudes toward and connections with neighboring communities, as well as other candidate predictors of between-community cooperation, before the rollout of a fisheries management initiative. The team will then revisit these individuals to measure their participation in between-community cooperation 12 months after initiative rollout. By assessing the relevance of baseline factors to later successful resource management, this project provides a real-world test of theoretical work on when and why between-community cooperation works.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

资源管理和保护举措往往需要社区共同努力管理或保护森林、草原、流域和渔业。虽然发展伙伴强调扩大适用于新地点的举措，但我们仍然不太了解社区何时以及为什么共同努力管理或养护，这阻碍了成功扩大规模，并可能导致捐助资金的低效使用。该项目与美国林务局资助的沿海社区网络合作进行，将学术界和发展界的研究结合起来，对社区何时以及为什么在资源管理中共同努力做出具体预测。它将资助和培养一名博士后研究员，一名研究生和九名研究团队成员的科学研究方法。该项目将制定一套准则，指导发展伙伴如何选择社区间合作可能取得成功的试点地点;在合作障碍有限的情况下，合作伙伴可以在扩大其倡议之前解决扩大规模的其他障碍，该项目调查个人对邻近社区发生的情况的关切，以及他们与这些社区的联系，是否有助于成功的资源管理。到目前为止，关于什么可以促进社区之间的合作的想法在很大程度上仍然是理论性的，通常在实验室进行评估。该项目涉及32个社区的实地数据收集，在推出渔业管理倡议之前，项目小组将收集个人层面的数据，这些数据涉及对邻近社区的态度和与社区的联系，以及社区间合作的其他候选预测因素。然后，该团队将再次访问这些人，以衡量他们在倡议推出后12个月参与社区间合作的情况。通过评估基线因素与后来成功的资源管理的相关性，该项目提供了一个关于社区间合作何时以及为什么有效的理论工作的现实世界测试。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages

远近之友、同甘共苦：坦桑尼亚渔村近友与远友救助的应急性比较

• DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.09.004
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Evolution and Human Behavior
• 影响因子: 5.1
• 作者: Smith, Kristopher M.;Pisor, Anne C.;Aron, Bertha;Bernard, Kasambo;Fimbo, Paschal;Kimesera, Rose;Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique
• 通讯作者: Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique