International Research Fellowship Program: Evaluating Sustainable Development on Taiwan

Abel国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该项目的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，并提供了使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件的机会。此奖项将资助托马斯·D·阿贝尔博士与台湾台北国立台北大学的李黄博士合作的为期12个月的研究奖学金。该项目将评估新兴的、不断增长的“可持续旅游”产业对台湾的影响。它将涉及使用生态经济学来评估旅游业发展所产生的可持续性、承载能力以及相关的自然和人类变化。预期成果将是生产大小旅游开发场地的生态足迹测算。当局会编制其他指标，以判断现有和拟建的旅游发展项目的承载能力和强度。民族志研究将衡量与现有旅游中心相邻的家庭在政治经济等级和经济战略方面的变化。在黄博士的协助下，这项研究将使用电脑模拟来产生台湾未来可能出现的情景。这项研究将为政策制定者和研究人员提供量化指标。它将展示相互关联的人类-生态研究对于理解经济发展在一个相互依存的全球社会中的后果和好处的作用。

0305502AbelThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve month research fellowship by Dr. Thomas D. Abel to work with Dr. Shu-Li Huang at the National Taipei University if Taipei, Taiwan.This project will evaluate the impacts of the new and growing "sustainable tourism" industry on Taiwan. It will involve the use of ecological economics to evaluate the sustainability, carrying capacity, and linked natural and human transformations that result from tourism development. Expected results will be the production of ecological footprint measurements of large and small tourism development sites. Other indices will be produced to judge the carrying capacity and intensity of existing and proposed tourism developments. Ethnographic research will measure transformations in political-economic hierarchy and economic strategies of households adjacent to existing tourism centers. With the assistance of Dr. Huang, this study will use computer modeling to produce scenarios of possible Taiwan futures. This research will provide policymakers and researchers with quantitative indicators. It will demonstrate the usefulness of linked human-ecological research for understanding the consequences and benefits of economic development in an interdependent global community.