Doctoral Dissertation Research: Ecological Restoration and Indigenous Science

博士论文研究：生态恢复与本土科学

• 批准号: 2116945
• 负责人: Clint Carroll
• 金额: $ 2.28万
• 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: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116945&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Ecological; Restoration

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The doctoral dissertation project examines North American Indigenous relationships to ecology and how Indigenous knowledge systems have developed and changed over time, with particular attention to socioeconomic difference, health, and environmental change. Globally, ecosystem changes due to environmental disturbance, natural events, climate change, or a combination thereof leads to species being unable to adapt. This directly impacts societies where relationships to the natural world are an integral dimension of everyday life. This project, which supports the training of an Indigenous graduate student in anthropology in empirical, social scientific data collection and analysis, considers how an Indigenous community addresses the political and environmental forces that impact everyday life and expressions of identity and community health as they relate to Lake Sturgeon (Nmé) restoration. This doctoral research investigates how the enactment of the Nmé Stewardship Plan correlates with Odawa expressions of identity, understandings of health, and legal relationships with the environment. How is the Little River Odawa community navigating contemporary environmental and social impacts from the historical depletion and current restoration of Lake Sturgeon (Nmé)? What role do Indigenous and Western science play in affecting these views and practices? What does this mean for Odawa treaty rights in the face of climate change? To answer these questions the researcher interviews community members and tribal natural resource managers and carries out participant observation in daily community activities related to fishing. Archival research at university and government archives adds further depth to the study. The resulting research products contribute to an understanding of Indigenous science and how it encompasses humans' accountability towards the environment and identifies opportunities for strengthened environmental planning at local, regional, and national scales. This has implications for both Indigenous peoples and for the study of species restoration across the ecological and social sciences.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该博士论文项目研究了北美土著与生态的关系，以及土著知识体系如何随着时间的推移而发展和变化，特别关注社会经济差异，健康和环境变化。在全球范围内，由于环境干扰，自然事件，气候变化或其组合导致的生态系统变化导致物种无法适应。这直接影响到与自然世界的关系是日常生活不可分割的一部分的社会。这个项目，它支持在经验，社会科学数据收集和分析人类学的土著研究生的培训，考虑如何土著社区解决影响日常生活和身份和社区健康的表达，因为他们涉及到鲟鱼湖（NME）恢复的政治和环境力量。这项博士研究调查了NME管理计划的制定如何与Odawa的身份表达，对健康的理解以及与环境的法律的关系相关。小河小达瓦社区如何应对鲟鱼湖（Nmé）历史枯竭和目前恢复对当代环境和社会的影响？土著和西方科学在影响这些观点和做法方面发挥了什么作用？面对气候变化，这对Odawa条约权利意味着什么？为了回答这些问题，研究人员采访了社区成员和部落自然资源管理人员，并在与捕鱼有关的日常社群活动中进行了参与性观察。在大学和政府档案馆的档案研究增加了进一步的研究深度。由此产生的研究成果有助于了解土著科学，以及它如何包含人类对环境的责任，并确定在地方，区域和国家范围内加强环境规划的机会。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。