FORTE - FORest ciTizenship for disaster rEsilience: learning from COVID-19

新冠肺炎疫情对传统农村社会产生了不成比例的巨大负面影响，这些社会几乎无法获得现代医疗保健。该研究项目将研究亚马逊森林中依靠森林为生的土著人民如何参与公民身份，以行使他们的权利来影响提高他们的复原力和降低他们对新冠肺炎的脆弱性的机构和政治进程。这项研究将使用现有的数据来量化这些社区过去通过更多地参与公民来减少其脆弱性的机制。该研究团队由来自巴西、英国和美国的科学家组成，他们还将通过采访传统农村社区的居民来收集新的数据，以更好地了解他们参与其中的机会和障碍。研究结果将分发给利益相关者，包括巴西的地方、州和联邦政府机构以及政策制定者。这项研究的结果可以为政策提供指导，以加强包容性民主治理，减少获得卫生和其他资源的不平等，并提高对危机的复原力。这项研究的结果在全球范围内得到应用，因此将有助于确立美国作为全球抗灾能力领导者的地位。自下而上的公民身份是一个被边缘化的人自我组织起来要求承认和权利的过程，对灾难恢复、复原力和社会复兴至关重要。该项目汇集了一个由来自巴西、英国和美国的社会科学家组成的国际团队，以研究巴西亚马逊地区的森林居民如何利用集体行动来减轻新冠肺炎大流行的负面影响，并增强抗灾能力。这项研究将：(1)量化森林公民身份与新冠肺炎抗灾能力之间的联系；(2)调查新冠肺炎大流行病期间采用的森林公民身份的各种做法；(3)传播森林人关于如何在亚马逊和世界其他地区促进森林公民身份和提高抗灾能力的学习经验。该研究项目将通过三个相互关联的项目来解决这些问题-二级健康、治理和环境数据的量化分析(整个巴西亚马逊)，在亚马逊和阿克州选定的市政当局进行定性实地考察，以及行动研究。这项研究的结果可以为加强包容性民主治理、减少获得卫生和其他公共资源的不平等机会以及提高应对危机的复原力的政策提供指导。这项研究的结果是可扩展的，因此可以帮助建立美国作为全球抗灾能力领导者的地位。这一奖项反映了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。

The COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionately large negative impact on traditional rural societies with little access to modern health care. This research project will study how forest-dependent indigenous people of the Amazon forest engaged in citizenship to exercise their rights to influence institutions and political processes that increased their resilience and reduced their vulnerability to COVID-19. The study will use existing data to quantify the mechanisms through which these communities reduced their vulnerability in the past by being more engaged citizens. The research team, consisting of scientists from Brazil, the UK, and the US, will also collect new data using interviews with people living in traditional rural communities, to better understand the opportunities and barriers to their engagement. The research results will be disseminated to stakeholders, including local, state, and federal governmental agencies, and policy makers in Brazil. The results of this research could provide guidance on policies to strengthen inclusive democratic governance, reduce unequal access to health and other resources, and increase resilience to crises. The results of this research have global application, hence will help establish the US as a global leader in disaster resilience. Citizenship from below, a process through which marginalized peoples self-organize to claim recognition and rights, is crucial to disaster recovery, resilience, and societal renewal. This project assembles an international team of social scientists from Brazil, UK, and the US to study how the forest people of Brazilian Amazonia have used collective action to mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthen disaster resilience. The study will: (1) quantify linkages between forest citizenship and COVID-19 resilience; (2) investigate various practices of forest citizenship that were employed during the COVID-19 pandemic; and (3) disseminate learning experiences of the forest people on how to promote forest citizenship and enhance disaster resilience across Amazonia and other parts of the world. The research project will address these questions through three interlinked projects---quantitative analysis of secondary health, governance, and environmental data (entire Brazilian Amazon), qualitative fieldwork in selected municipalities in Amazonia and Acre State, and action-research. The results of this research could provide guidance on policies to strengthen inclusive democratic governance, reduce unequal access to health and other public resources, and increase resilience to crises. The result of this research is scalable, hence can help establish the US as a global leader in disaster resilience.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.