HSD: Understanding Dynamic Resource-Management Systems and Land-Cover Transitions in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia

当代对气候变化、全球环境变化和可持续性的关注重新激发了人们对发展人与环境关系综合理论的兴趣。 东南亚大陆山区是一个生物和文化多样性丰富的地区，由于真实的和感知的森林砍伐、土地退化以及最近在区域和全球市场的推动下传统农业做法向更持久的经济作物农业的转变，过去几十年来受到了密切关注。 这个跨学科的研究项目将研究如何在东南亚山地大陆的资源管理系统正在改变资源商品化后，以了解这些变化可能会如何影响可持续的资源利用，景观改造和土地覆盖。 一个来自社会和生物科学的多学科小组将收集中国、老挝和泰国的经济、人口、体制和文化数据，并将这些数据与多时相高分辨率空间数据库联系起来。 将对这些数据进行分析，以说明研究区域的土地覆盖和土地利用变化。 研究人员将使用细胞自动机和基于代理的建模来探索社会和生物物理变量的变化，并增强现有经验数据之外的洞察力。该项目将增强有关人类社会及其生态系统之间动态耦合的基本知识，范围从地方到地区，国家和全球。 该项目将进一步了解空间信息技术和建模的作用，以了解生态恢复和土地利用过渡的长期过程。 该项目将寻求进一步了解土地使用变化作为人类-环境耦合系统的一部分。 该项目将促进美国和亚洲学者之间的合作。 该项目将提供格拉德生实地研究的机会，它将允许在东南亚山地大陆发现的许多不同的种族群体研究土地覆盖和土地利用变化对这些群体的社会影响，它将促进决策者和利益相关者在地方，区域和国家层面的决策。 一个经验丰富的多学科团队，包括经济学家，林业学家，地理学家和社会学家，为这个项目带来了广泛的技能。 该项目将促进社会科学家和自然科学家之间的互动，研究人类和自然系统之间复杂的相互作用。 该项目得到了2004财政年度全国科学基金会人类和社会动态竞赛（HSD）的资助。 HSD竞赛和HSD奖项组合的协调管理涉及所有NSF董事会和办公室。

Contemporary concerns about climate change, global environmental change, and sustainability have rejuvenated interest in the development of an integrative theory of human-environment relationships. Montane mainland Southeast Asia is a region of great biological and cultural diversity that has come under close scrutiny in the last several decades as a result of both real and perceived deforestation, land degradation, and most recently, the conversion of traditional agricultural practices to more permanent cash crop agriculture driven by regional and global markets. This interdisciplinary research project will examine how resource management systems in montane mainland Southeast Asia are changing in the wake of commodification of resources in order to appreciate how these changes may affect sustainable resource use, landscape transformation, and land cover. A multidisciplinary team from the social and biological sciences will collect economic, demographic, institutional and cultural data in China, Laos, and Thailand and link these data with a multi-temporal high-resolution spatial database. These data will be analyzed to develop a narrative of land-cover and land-use change in the study area. The investigators will use cellular-automata and agent-based modeling to explore changes in social and biophysical variables and enhance insights beyond the available empirical data.The project will enhance basic knowledge regarding the dynamic coupling between human societies and their ecosystems at scales that range from the local to district, national, and global. The project will further understanding of the roles of spatial information technology and modeling for understanding long-term processes of ecological restoration and land-use transition. The project will seek to further understanding of land-use change as part of the coupled human-environment system. The project will facilitate collaborations between U.S. and Asian scholars. The project will provide grad student field-base research opportunities, and it will permit numerous different ethnic groups found in montane mainland Southeast Asia to examine the social implications of land-cover and land-use change for these groups, and it will facilitate decision making by policy makers and stakeholders at local, regional, and national levels. An experienced and diverse multidisciplinary team including economists, foresters, geographers, and sociologists brings a broad range of skills to this project. The project will facilitate interactions among social and natural scientists examining the complex interaction among human and natural systems. This project is supported by an award resulting from the FY 2004 NSF-wide competition on Human and Social Dynamics (HSD). Coordinated management of the HSD competition and the portfolio of HSD awards involves all NSF directorates and offices.