Doctoral Dissertation Research in Geography and Regional Science

这个博士论文奖将支持研究 美洲印第安人人口减少的文化生态学 该项目的目的 是建立系统动力学计算机仿真模型， 为了评估美洲印第安人人口减少的历史统计数据， 这些人口崩溃的所谓原因的作用，并使 区域间比较。 关于前哥伦比亚美洲印第安人的规模存在争议 人口和规模的下降后，西班牙 征服 本项目将系统动力学建模引入到 研究新世界印第安人人口减少。 该技术允许显式 直接决定人口的各种因素之间的动态联系 生存和繁殖到更广泛的环境中的元素， 社会文化、技术和历史环境。 通过比较 为不同地区开发的模型，本研究强调 位置在理解不同模式中的重要性。 更 总的来说，这个项目将帮助我们破译多种因素是如何影响 影响了土著社会的人口下降， 联系并增加我们对人口变化的一般知识。

This doctoral dissertation award will support research on the cultural ecology of Amerind depopulation. The purpose of the project is to construct systems dynamics computer simulation models in order to assess the historical-statistics of Amerind depopulation, examine the roles of purported causes of these population collapses, and make interregional comparisons. Controversy exists about the magnitude of pre-Colombian Amerind populations and the scale of their ensuing decline after the Spanish conquest. This project introduces systems dynamics modeling to the study of New World Indian depopulation. The technique allows explicit and dynamic linkage of the factors directly governing human population survival and reproduction to elements in the broader environmental, sociolcultural, technical, and historical milieux. By comparing the models developed for different regions, this study emphasizes the importance of location in understanding differing patterns. More broadly, this project will help us decipher how multiple factors have affected the population decline of aboriginal societies after European contact and add to our general knowledge of population change.