Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Effects of Ethnicity and Migration on Forest Use and Conservation in Central VietNam

[0108992]本地种群对热带森林的影响还没有得到很好的理解。分析人士认为，在某些情况下，传统社会对森林有着良性的保护作用，而在另一些情况下，他们对森林的开发和退化却没有考虑到未来的生产力。本项目涉及耶鲁大学林业/环境研究与人类学学生的论文研究。学生将通过参与观察、家庭调查、绘图和现存记录分析的民族志田野调查，分析种族、移民和土地权属对越南森林利用的影响。有待检验的假设是，种族、移民和土地权属在不同用户群体如何管理森林方面发挥了作用。将研究三个不同的民族：土著楚人，移民和长期越南人，以及移民的孟族。这个项目创造的新知识将促进我们对多民族社会如何管理稀缺资源的理解，这是当代世界一个及时的问题。此外，该项目有助于培训一名年轻的社会科学家，并增加我们对世界这一重要地区的了解。

0108992Dove / McElwee The impact of native groups on tropical forests is not well understood. In some cases, analysts feel that traditional societies have a benign conservationist effect on the forest, in others, that they exploit and degrade the forest with no thought on future productivity. This project involves the dissertation research of a Forestry/Environmental Studies and Anthropology student from Yale University. The student will analyze the effects of ethnicity, migration and land tenure on forest use in Vietnam through ethnographic fieldwork using participant observation, household surveys, mapping and analysis of extant records. The hypotheses to be tested are that ethnicity, migration and land tenure play a role in how different user groups manage the forest. Three different ethnic groups will be studied: indigenous Chut, in-migrant and longer-term Vietnamese, and in-migrant Muong. The new knowledge created by this project will advance our understanding of how multi-ethnic societies can manage a scarce resource, a timely question in the contemporary world. In addition the project contributes to the training of a young social scientist, and increases our knowledge of this important region of the world.