Dissertation Research: Knowledge Networks and Tree Management In India

该论文改进奖将帮助学生在印度北部的一个村庄进行工作，在那里她将结合民族志方法和实地测量来调查四组问题：(1)土著与非土著树木管理实践知识的空间模式之间的关系；(2)树木管理知识与邻近地区的社会经济和生物物理特征之间的关系；(3)获取不同知识来源与性别和社会经济地位之间的关系；(4)与非村级森林管理者的沟通对树木管理知识在村民中的应用分布的影响；(5)个人和家庭如何解决从不同来源获得的知识之间的不连续性。学生将进行资源和所有权调查，参与者观察和访谈，以获取树木管理知识及其来源。学生将通过结构化的定性和定量方法分析这些数据。这个案例研究应该有助于科学地理解实践知识是如何传播和使用的，因此应该有助于在当地人口中传播“最佳实践”技术的实际尝试。

SBR-9508550 This dissertation-improvement award will assist the Student's work in a village in northern India, where she will combine ethnographic methods and field measurement to investigate four sets of issues: (1) the relationships between the spatial patterns of indigenous versus non-indigenous knowledge of tree-management practices; (2) relationships between tree- management knowledge and the socio-economic and biophysical characteristics of the immediate area; (3) relationships between access to different sources of knowledge and gender and socio-economic status; (4) the effect of communication with non-village forest managers on the distribution of tree-management-knowledge application among villagers; and (5) ways in which individuals and households resolve discontinuities between knowledge received from different sources. The Student will undertake a resource and ownership survey, and participant observation and interviews to elicit tree-management knowledge and its sources. The Student will analyze these data via structured qualitative and quantitative methods. This case study should contribute to the scientific understanding of how practical knowledge is diffused and used, and thereby should contribute to practical attempts to diffuse "best-practice" techniques among local populations.