Dissertation Research: Evolutionary Ecology of Resource Management in Solomon Islands Fishing Communities

9320498芬尼这个项目支持夏威夷大学的一名学生的论文研究，研究所罗门群岛一个渔业社区的资源保护。这名学生正在检验这样一种理论，即传统民族是环境资源的天然保护者。通过进行参与者观察、时间分配分析以及经济和家庭调查，学生将检验这样一个假设，即当产量下降到该地区的平均产量时，渔民停止开发特定的资源位置(从而在给定的位置或“地块”退化之前离开，从而保护它)。这一项目很重要，因为它将增进我们对热带海洋环境中土著知识的了解；它将评估属地在养护水生资源方面的作用；它将有助于我们理解与资源管理和养护有关的人类觅食战略。在面临威胁的环境中，这类知识将有价值地增加到我们的资源保护战略中。***

9320498 Finney This project supports the dissertation research of a student from the University of Hawaii, studying resource conservation by a fishing community in the Solomon Islands. The student is testing the theory that traditional peoples are natural conservators of their environmental resources. By conducting participant observation, time allocation analysis and economic and household surveys, the student will test the hypothesis that fishermen stop exploiting particular resource locations when the yields decline to the average yield for the area (thus leaving a given location or "patch" before it is degraded, and so conserving it). This project is important because it will advance our understanding of indigenous knowledge in tropical marine environments; it will evaluate the role of territoriality in conserving aquatic resources; and it will contribute to our understanding of human foraging strategies as they relate to resource management and conservation. This sort of knowledge will be valuable to add to our repertoire of resource conservation strategies in a world of threatened environments. ***