Collaborative Research: Cultural Models, Values and Networks in Environmental Decisions

研究分析了知识、行为和价值观在环境决策中的相互作用。数据是从两个地点收集的，这两个地点是美国原住民和多数文化人口共享栖息地，但在资源利用方面存在冲突：威斯康星州的沃尔夫河地区和危地马拉的低地玛雅森林地区。研究整合了心理学、人类学和社会学的正式模型技术，表明：(1)人们对环境的文化模型有着惊人的详细程度；(2)这些心理模型为实际行为提供信息和预测，并具有可测量的生态后果；(3)不同的资源评估模式驱动了模型的个体差异和文化差异。研究结果有望建立：(4)跨文化生态认知的初步近似；(5)一个认知维度，以激发人们如何决定管理公共资源的新研究；(6)冲突解决谈判的综合基础，包括理解环境认知、行为和价值观之间的关系

The research analyzes the interaction of knowledge, behaviors and values in environmental decision making. Data are collected from two sites where Native American and majority culture populations share a habitat but conflict over resource use: The Wolf River area of Wisconsin and the Lowland Maya forest region of Guatemala. Studies integrate formal modelin techniques from psychology, anthropology and sociology to show that: (1) people share cultureal models of the environment to a surprisingly detailed degree; (2) these mental models inform and predict actual behaviors, with measurable ecological consequences; and (3) individual and cultural differences in models are motivated by different patterns of resource valuation. Research findings are expected to establish: (4) a first approximation of ecological cognition across cultures, (5) a cognitive dimensin to stimulate new research on how people decide to manage common resources; and (6) a comprehensive basis for conflict-resolution negotiation that involves understanding the relations between environmental cognitions, behaviors and values