Doctoral Dissertation Research: Determinants of Livelihood Strategies in a Marine Extractive Reserve.

这一博士论文研究项目考察了建立海洋采掘保护区(MER)如何影响资源使用者的生计战略，并调查了生计战略是如何实施的，并与MER制度框架下此类战略的框架方式进行了比较。作为一种以社区为基础的保护战略，建立海洋采掘保护区旨在保护生物多样性以及传统社区及其生计。通过考虑巴西东北部卡苏巴梅尔的案例，将通过对规划和管理文件的分析、家庭调查和与主要行为者的访谈相结合的方式，审查MER的机构以及围绕其建立的程序和领土做法。这种混合方法的方法将阐明资源使用者如何利用生计战略来挑战或调整在环境和环境保护机构建设中的预期，并由此延伸到这类基于社区的保护战略。这项研究有可能为保护倡议和政策提供信息。MERS正在世界各地需要传统生计和保护共存的地方广泛实施。它还将为学术和研究提供信息，这可能表明，在采掘储量的体制框架中采取更灵活的做法，将使其更符合资源使用者的实际生计做法。这些家庭生活数据将被用来创建一个将在德克萨斯农工大学本科课程中实施的“生计教学模块”。通过与这一模式的接触，学生将发现影响拉丁美洲和其他地方小规模资源使用者生计的过程。研究成果将与教育、科学和文化组织的资源用户、当地主要行为者分享，并将通过科学会议和出版物广泛传播。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生建立独立的研究生涯提供支持。

This doctoral dissertation research project examines how the establishment of marine extractive reserves (MER) affects livelihood strategies of resource users and investigates how livelihood strategies are lived as compared with the way such strategies were framed by MER institutional frameworks. As a type of community-based conservation strategy, the establishment of marine extractive reserves aims to protect biodiversity as well as traditional communities and their livelihoods. By considering the case of the Cassurubá MER in northeast Brazil, the institutions of the MER and the processes and territorial practices surrounding its establishment will be examined through a combination of an analysis of planning and management documents, household surveys, and interviews with key actors. This mixed methods approach will illuminate how resource users have used livelihood strategies to contest or adjust to what was expected in the institutional construction of the MER, and by extension, of this type of community-based conservation strategy. This research has the potential to inform conservation initiatives and policy. MERs are being widely implemented in places throughout the world where traditional livelihoods and conservation need to coexist. It will also inform scholarship and research, likely suggesting that a more flexible approach in the institutional framing of extractive reserves will permit a closer alignment with the actual livelihood practices of resource users. The household livelihood data will be used to create a 'Livelihoods Teaching Module' to be implemented in an undergraduate course at Texas A&M University. Through the engagement with this model students will discover the processes that influence the livelihoods of small-scale resource users in Latin America and elsewhere. The research findings will be shared with the resource users of the MER, local key actors, and will be broadly disseminated via scientific conferences and publications. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career.