Doctoral Dissertation Research: Shihuahuaco (Dipteryx spp.) and the Chinese Timber Trade

地方行动（例如资源开采）和国家或全球结构（例如管理机构）的配置被认为是相互创造的。然而，监管的意图与行为者的实际做法之间可能存在重大差异，特别是在资源繁荣的背景下。这个博士论文研究项目将把石花花木材贸易的商品链分析与综合代理-结构方法联系起来，以评估秘鲁和全球林业政策与木材开采和贸易现实之间的相互作用。博士候选人将考虑各种行业参与者的供应安排的发展，以满足中国在森林治理结构调整的背景下的新需求。这项贸易研究的结果将与对石花瓜采伐后再生生态的原始研究相关联，在过去十年中，石花瓜一直是秘鲁亚马逊地区向中国出口热潮的主题。该项目将整合和推进多个学科的思想，包括政治生态学、人文地理学和林业。它将评估国家和全球林业政策与木材开采和贸易的现实之间的相互作用，特别注意将社会政治结果与关于硬木木材采伐后再生生态的研究联系起来。这项研究也将有实际的好处，因为它将使决策者能够从森林资源的可持续管理以及全球机构所提倡的林业战略的角度来评价目前的森林政策。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。

The configurations of local action, such as resource extraction, and national or global structures, such as regulatory institutions, have been described as mutually creative. Significant differences may exist between the intention of regulation and the actual practices of actors, however, particularly in the context of a resource boom. This doctoral dissertation research project will link a commodity-chains analysis of the trade in shihuahuaco timber (Dipteryx spp.) and an integrated agent-structure approach to assess the interplay between Peruvian and global forestry policy and the realities of timber extraction and trade. The doctoral candidate will consider the development of supply arrangements by various sets of industry actors to satisfy new demand from China in the context of structural adjustments to forest governance. The results of this trade study will be correlated to original research on the post-logging regeneration ecology of shihuahuaco, which has been the subject of an export boom from Peruvian Amazonia to China over the last decade.This project will integrate and advance thinking from several disciplines, including political ecology, human geography, and forestry. It will assess the interplay between national and global forestry policy and the realities of timber extraction and trade, with special attention given to correlating sociopolitical findings with research on the post-logging regeneration ecology of hardwood timber. The research also will have practical benefits, as it will enable policy makers to assess current forest policy in terms of the sustainable management of forest resources as well as forestry strategies promoted by global institutions. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.