Dissertation Research: Informational Exchanges Among Hawaii's Marine Stakeholders

科学、工程和技术领域的科学和社会政策研究中的这篇论文改进拨款侧重于一项定性研究，该研究将扩展之前由NSF支持的研究，以确定夏威夷海洋资源利益相关者(HMS)的全面范围，并将为他们的信息交流提供见解。这项研究将使用社会行动者模型，该模型是由Lamb&amp；Kling通过先前由NSF资助的研究开发的，以考察社区参与海洋资源管理的动态。这一从经验得出并得到理论支持的办法将指导系统地探索海洋资源共同管理的概念，同时结合信息交流的概念，以便更全面地了解不同实践群体正在形成的事态发展。这种方法构建了一种将HMS视为社会参与者的观点，每个社会参与者都是机构的一部分，既支持也限制互动、从属关系、环境和身份。NSF将支持收集数据，以解决对本研究目标至关重要的三个基本问题。首先，选定的夏威夷海洋利益攸关方如何获取和使用有关当地海洋环境的信息？其次，哪些因素影响夏威夷海洋利益相关者之间的集团和联盟的形成？第三，环境信息如何影响夏威夷海洋利益相关者的做法、身份、从属关系以及与其他组织和机构的互动(并反过来受到它们的影响)？这些问题将通过一系列面谈和相关的参与性数据收集会议加以解决，同时进行文件审查和网络分析。面试将集中于夏威夷群岛周围三个不同地点的利益相关者，并将在一年内进行，以部分满足夏威夷大学的博士论文要求。在不同机构和不同背景下运作的HMS的关键特征将有所不同：一个站点将主要关注采掘活动，另一个将侧重于专属保护，最后一个站点将平衡采掘和非采掘用途。这项研究将描述夏威夷海洋利益攸关方之间的信息交流，并解释这些交流如何影响当地海洋资源的使用和管理。这项研究还将确定和描述不同利益攸关方之间的一些成功伙伴关系，以帮助其他研究人员更全面地进一步研究环境活动。

This Dissertation Improvement Grant in the Science and Society Policy Studies in Science, Engineering, and Technology focuses on a qualitative study that will extend prior NSF supported research to identify a comprehensive range of Hawaii's marine resource stakeholders (HMS), and will provide insights about their informational exchanges. The study will employ the Social Actor Model, developed through prior NSF-funded research by Lamb & Kling, to examine the dynamics of community involvement in the management of marine resources. This empirically derived and theoretically supported approach will guide a systematic exploration of the concepts of marine resources co-management in concert with concepts about informational exchanges to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the developments taking shape across different communities of practice. This approach constructs a view of HMS as social actors, each as part of an institution, both enabling and constraining interactions, affiliations, environments and identities. NSF will support the collection of data that addresses three basic questions central to the objectives of this research. First, how do selected Hawaii's marine stakeholders obtain and use information on the local marine environment? Secondly, which factors influence the formation of groups and alliances among Hawaii's marine stakeholders? And third, how does environmental information shape Hawaii's marine stakeholders' practices, identities, affiliations and interactions with other groups and agencies (and in turn become shaped by them)? These questions will be addressed through a series of interviews and related participatory data gathering meetings, accompanied by document review and network analysis. The interviewing will focus on stakeholders in three distinct sites around the Hawaiian Islands, and will be conducted over the course of one year in partial fulfillment of the doctoral dissertation requirements of the University of Hawaii. The sites will vary in terms of key HMS characteristics, operating under different institutions and different contexts: one site will focus attention on mostly extractive activities, another will focus on exclusive conservation, and the final site will balance both extractive and non-extractive uses. This research will provide a characterization of the informational exchanges among Hawaii's marine stakeholders, and will explain how these exchanges shape the uses and management of the local ocean resources. This research will also identify and describe some successful partnerships among diverse stakeholders in ways that will help other researchers develop further studies of environmental activities more generally.