Amazonia-Yungas Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being: Development of a South-South-North Research and Partner Consortium

亚马逊-永格斯生物多样性和土著健康与福祉观测站：南南北研究和合作伙伴联盟的发展

• 批准号: NE/I003134/1
• 负责人: Carolyn Stephens
• 金额: $ 5.86万
• 依托单位: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FI003134%2F1
• 关键词: Amazonia; Yungas; Observatory; Biodiversity; Indigenous

This proposal is for a 6 month partnership and project development catalyst project to build an interdisciplinary research and partner consortium that will involve and support some of the most marginalised peoples in their countries and internationally. Indigenous peoples are amongst the most disadvantaged peoples internationally. Yet these peoples are also the guardians of some of the most important ecosystems of the planet. Amazonia is one of Earth's most precious ecosystems. As the Amazonian forest reaches the Andes it merges with a contiguous and equally important biosphere: the Yungas (or Cloud Forest). These two sister forest ecosystems are amongst the most biodiverse regions of the world, spanning several Latin American countries including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia. Together, across these four countries, these ecosystems span more than 6 million square kilometers, roughly 25 times the size of the UK. For millennia, spanning modern geopolitical boundaries, over 400 different indigenous peoples have protected Amazonia and the Yungas. In turn Amazonia and the Yungas have provided health and well-being for these indigenous peoples via food, medicines, home, culture, and natural resources. These forest biospheres also provide the world with some of its most important ecosystem services in terms of forest and food resources, current and potential new medicines, rainfall regulation and a global carbon sink. Internationally, there is an urgent need to improve understanding of the importance of biodiversity for human health and well-being particularly for communities directly dependent on biodiverse ecosystems. The need is especially urgent in this fragile and vital region, home to such interdependent biological and cultural diversity, and currently under major threat from exogenous forces such as deforestation, resource extraction and climate change. This proposal is for a 6-month grant to develop a major partnership and research consortium to lead and manage an Amazonia-Yungas Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Wellbeing. Such an observatory will provide vital evidence on the links of biodiversity and indigenous health and well-being in the region and internationally, and will be a major evidence base for decision-makers and indigenous and environmental stakeholder groups. This proposal is led by international and regional scientists from Argentina, Peru, Brazil, the UK and Canada who form an initial interdisciplinary team of biologists, social and environmental epidemiologists, anthropologists, veterinary scientists and social scientists working with a diverse group of local, regional and international actors including ecological foundations and indigenous associations, and international agencies. If awarded, we place a major emphasis on development of partners who will support and guide the Observatory and who will be major users of the Observatory in the longer term. Aims: 1. To develop a multi-disciplinary South-South-North research consortium to propose, then lead and run a Yungas-Amazonia Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being 2. To develop a multi-stakeholder network of partner organisations committed to develop, support, promote and use findings of the Yungas-Amazonia Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being Specific Objectives: a. To review existing evidence on links of biodiversity and indigenous health in the Yungas and Amazonia. b. To hold a regional workshop with both partner organisations and members of the proposed research consortium to discuss and develop a major interdisciplinary proposal for a 5 year Yungas-Amazonia Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being. c. To produce a proposal for the Yungas-Amazonia Observatory including research team and methods; partner organisations; impact plan; environmental offsetting plan; and beneficiary and uptake plan.

该提案是一个为期6个月的伙伴关系和项目开发催化剂项目，旨在建立一个跨学科的研究和合作伙伴联盟，将涉及和支持一些最边缘化的人民在他们的国家和国际。土著人民是国际上处境最不利的民族之一。然而，这些民族也是地球上一些最重要生态系统的守护者。亚马逊是地球上最珍贵的生态系统之一。当亚马逊森林到达安第斯山脉时，它与一个相邻的、同样重要的生物圈融合在一起：永加斯（或云森林）。这两个姐妹森林生态系统是世界上生物多样性最丰富的地区之一，横跨几个拉丁美洲国家，包括巴西、阿根廷、秘鲁和玻利维亚。这四个国家的生态系统总面积超过600万平方公里，大约是英国面积的25倍。数千年来，跨越现代地缘政治边界，400多个不同的土著民族保护着亚马逊河流域和永加斯河流域。反过来，亚马逊河流域和Yungas通过食物、药品、家园、文化和自然资源为这些土著人民提供了健康和福祉。这些森林生物圈还为世界提供了一些最重要的生态系统服务，如森林和粮食资源、现有和潜在的新药物、降雨调节和全球碳汇。在国际上，迫切需要更好地了解生物多样性对人类健康和福祉的重要性，特别是对直接依赖生物多样性生态系统的社区。在这一脆弱而重要的区域，这一需要尤其紧迫，因为这一区域是相互依存的生物和文化多样性的家园，目前正受到森林砍伐、资源开采和气候变化等外来力量的严重威胁。该提案是一项为期6个月的赠款，用于建立一个主要的伙伴关系和研究联盟，以领导和管理亚马逊-永加斯生物多样性和土著健康与福祉观测站。这样一个观察站将提供关于该区域和国际生物多样性与土著人民健康和福祉之间联系的重要证据，并将成为决策者以及土著和环境利益攸关方群体的主要证据基础。这项建议由来自阿根廷、秘鲁、巴西、联合王国和加拿大的国际和区域科学家领导，他们组成了一个初步的跨学科小组，由生物学家、社会和环境流行病学家、人类学家、兽医科学家和社会科学家组成，与包括生态基金会和土著协会以及国际机构在内的各种地方、区域和国际行为者合作。如果获奖，我们将重点发展合作伙伴，他们将支持和指导天文台，并将成为天文台的长期主要用户。目的：1.建立一个多学科的南南北研究联合会，提出、领导和管理一个关于生物多样性和土著人健康和福祉的永加斯-亚马逊观察站。建立一个多方利益攸关者伙伴组织网络，致力于开发、支持、促进和使用Yungas-Amazonia生物多样性和土著健康和福祉具体目标观察站的研究结果：审查关于永加斯和亚马逊地区生物多样性与土著人健康之间联系的现有证据。B.与伙伴组织和拟议的研究联盟成员举行一次区域讲习班，讨论和制定一项关于生物多样性和土著健康和福祉的5年期Yungas-Amazonia观测站的重大跨学科建议。C.为Yungas-Amazonia天文台提出建议，包括研究团队和方法;伙伴组织;影响计划;环境抵消计划;以及受益人和吸收计划。

项目成果

Biodiversity and global health-hubris, humility and the unknown

生物多样性和全球健康——傲慢、谦逊和未知

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/011008
• 发表时间: 2012
• 期刊: Environmental Research Letters
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Stephens C

Public Health Ethics - Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice

公共卫生伦理 - 政策和实践中的关键概念和问题

• DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511862670.010
• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Kessel A