Economic Development and Non-Timber Tropical Forest Products

该项目涉及一个经济学家的探索性研究。 哈佛大学的人类学家研究部落 尼加拉瓜、中美洲的人们利用热带非木材资源 森林产品。 研究人员将花两个半月的时间 在实地寻找两个不同的印第安社区， 在收入、工资和价格方面， 其他类型的森林设置。 该研究将探讨如何 非木材森林产品的收入、工资和价格如何影响 印第安人通过研究时间分配， 日记和家庭收入和支出调查。 这项研究很重要，因为相对快速的减少 与当地人如何利用 森林以及大公司如何利用森林 森林资源 这种探索性的研究将使 研究人员制定了更广泛的研究计划， 当地森林开发，这可以为长期计划提供信息 森林利用。

This project involves exploratory research by an economic anthropologist from Harvard University studying how tribal peoples in Nicaragua, Central America exploit non-timber tropical forest products. The researcher will spend two and a half months in the field locating two different Indian communities which vary substantially in income, wages, and prices but resemble each other in type of forest setting. The research will explore how income, wages and prices of non-timber forest products affect how the Indians use the forest by studying time allocation, informant diaries, and surveys of household income and expenses. This research is important because the relatively rapid decrease in extant of tropical forests is related to how local people use the forests as well as to how large corporations exploit the forest resources. This sort of exploratory research will allow the researchers to develop plans for a more extensive study of local forest exploitation, which can inform plans for long-term forest use.