Doctoral Dissertation Research: Marine Conservation, Demography, and Family Planning

博士论文研究：海洋保护、人口学和计划生育

• 批准号: 2116661
• 负责人: Michael Dove
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Yale 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: 2021-09-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116661&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Marine; Conservation

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Some efforts to manage natural resources have relied on family planning initiatives designed to address broader demographic concerns about population rise. This doctoral dissertation project examines how an understanding of overpopulation connects to efforts to slow fertility rates in vulnerable ecosystems, and what relationship the resulting family planning initiatives have with reproductive behavior. This research project asks how environmental scientists and organizations understand and communicate the relationship between reproduction and conservation. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, findings will be disseminated to stakeholder organizations that shape the design and implementation of conservation programs. This project also broadens the participation of groups underrepresented in science.This doctoral dissertation research project explores the relationship between family planning and environmental conservation policies aimed at addressing population concerns. Through an ethnographic study of demographers, marine scientists, family planning practitioners, and women participating in family planning, the project examines the processes underlying the production of population data, and the relationship these dynamics have to women’s own experiences and understandings of reproductive freedom. Ultimately, this study contributes to new understandings of the ways in which demography and reproductive policy shape women’s reproductive lives. The methods include participant observation, semi-structured interviews and life history interviews with demographic scientists, community-based family planning practitioners, and women of reproductive age, as well as archival data analysis and supply chain mapping. The project contributes to a growing scholarship on the environmental dimensions of reproduction, and advances scholarship in political ecology and science studies more broadly.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。管理自然资源的一些努力依赖于计划生育举措，这些举措旨在解决更广泛的人口问题，即人口增长。这个博士论文项目考察了对人口过剩的理解如何与在脆弱的生态系统中降低生育率的努力相联系，以及由此产生的计划生育举措与生殖行为有什么关系。这项研究项目询问环境科学家和组织如何理解和沟通繁殖和保护之间的关系。除了为人类学研究生的实证方法培训提供资金外，研究结果还将传播给影响保护计划设计和实施的利益相关者组织。这个项目还扩大了科学领域中代表性不足的群体的参与。这个博士论文研究项目探索了计划生育和旨在解决人口问题的环境保护政策之间的关系。通过对人口学家、海洋科学家、计划生育从业人员和参与计划生育的妇女进行人种学研究，该项目审查了人口数据产生的基本过程，以及这些动态与妇女自身对生殖自由的经历和理解之间的关系。最终，这项研究有助于对人口统计学和生殖政策如何塑造女性生殖生活的新理解。这些方法包括参与者观察、半结构访谈和与人口学家、社区计划生育从业者和育龄妇女的生活史访谈，以及档案数据分析和供应链绘图。该项目有助于增加繁殖环境方面的学术研究，并更广泛地推进政治生态和科学研究的学术研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。