Does community-based conservation make communities more resilient to disasters?

我的博士研究将使用肯尼亚北部社区保护(CBC)的案例来调查社区保护(CBC)是否会使社区对灾难更具弹性。具体地说，我将研究在2019年至2021年期间影响肯尼亚北部的三次重叠灾害期间，社区保护组织与牧民社区的互动情况，包括新冠肺炎大流行、持续的沙漠蝗虫肆虐和几次严重洪水。这个问题既及时又重要，因为在一个大灭绝的时代，CBC被作为实现全球生物多样性目标的关键途径而被推广，但社区保护如何与社区在危机和灾难期间的应对和恢复能力相交仍未得到充分研究

My PhD research will investigate whether community-based conservation (CBC) makes communitiesmore resilient to disasters, using a case study of CBC in northern Kenya. Specifically, I will examinethe interactions of community conservancies with pastoralist communities during three overlappingdisasters affecting northern Kenya between 2019 and 2021, including the COVID-19 pandemic, anongoing desert locust infestation and several severe floods. This question is both timely andimportant given that CBC is being promoted as a key pathway to achieving global biodiversity goalsin an era of mass extinction, yet how community conservancies intersect with communities' abilityto cope during, and recover following, periods of crisis and disaster remains understudied