Doctoral Dissertation Research: Resource Use, Economic Change, and Local Soil Knowledge Among Small-Scale Producers of Ilha Ituqui, Para, Brazil

Carl S. Zimmerer Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins University of Wisconsin - Madison论文改进研究：巴西Ilha Ituqui小规模生产者的资源利用、经济变化和当地土壤知识。本论文改进研究的目的是了解不断变化的区域经济对当地土壤知识的影响。将地方生态知识系统置于更广泛的社会学和政治经济框架内，对于它们作为未来可持续资源利用指南的效用至关重要。位于亚马逊河下游的伊尔哈伊图基洪泛平原岛将作为测试假设的场所。这项研究将综合运用人文地理学和自然地理学的方法。本研究将探讨地理学中人与环境传统中的三个主题：当地土壤知识研究、性别知识和土壤质量维护。研究方法强调在更广泛的社会学和政治经济领域框架内评价地方一级决策的重要性。这项研究将证明经济变化与当地生态知识之间的联系。这种联系是理解可持续资源利用的关键联系，因为该地区的小规模生产者如何在具有挑战性的洪水环境和经济变化的压力下保持土壤质量，将为正在经历经济变化的热带低地其他地区提供重要的见解。

SBR-9508193 Carl S. Zimmerer Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins University of Wisconsin - Madison Dissertation Improvement Research: Resource Use, Economic Change and Local Soil Knowledge Among Small-Scale Producers of Ilha Ituqui, Para, Brazil The objective of this dissertation improvement research is to understand the impact of a changing regional economy on local soil knowledge. The placement of local systems of ecological knowledge within a broader sociological and political economic framework is critical to their utility as guides to future sustainable resource use. The Ilha Ituqui floodplain island in the lower Amazon will serve as a setting to test hypotheses. The study will use an integration of human and physical geography methodologies. Three topics within the people-environment tradition of geography will be addressed by this research: local soil knowledge studies, gendered knowledge, and soil quality maintenance. The study approach emphasizes the importance of evaluating local-level decision-making within a framework of broader sociological and political economic arenas. The study w ill demonstrate a link between economic change and local ecological knowledge. This link is a crucial connection for understanding sustainable resource use because how small-scale producers of the area maintain soil quality in a challenging flooded environment and under pressure of economic change will provide important insights for other parts of the lowland tropics undergoing economic change.