SEES Fellows: Integrating biology and econometrics across multiple scales for sustainable wildlife trade management

在这个奖项由美国国家科学基金会科学，工程和教育的可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员计划）博士玛丽E。来自美国自然历史博物馆的布莱尔将对懒猴进行基因测量，并对参与这些动物贸易的人进行社会经济研究。 该奖项得到了以下机构的支持：生物学理事会，社会，行为和经济科学理事会，以及国际和综合活动办公室。拟议的工作将结合联合收割机从懒猴的遗传信息以及参与这些物种贸易的个人的社会经济数据，以检验这些物种贸易集中在越南的假设，作为东南亚贸易的主要中转市场，并研究在推动这种贸易方面，区域和国际需求是否比当地因素更重要。这项工作的独特之处在于，它整合了多个尺度的社会经济和生物分析，以更好地了解野生动物贸易。这项工作中提出的研究的目的是更好地了解影响野生动物贸易的社会经济驱动因素。 这样的工作的最终目的是更好地告知政策制定者这种贸易的潜在社会和经济驱动因素，着眼于制定可持续管理战略，以减轻这种贸易对物种的威胁。 布莱尔博士将与美国自然历史博物馆生物多样性和保护中心的埃莉诺·J·斯特林博士、巴德学院环境政策中心的高塔姆·塞西教授和明·D·越南国立大学自然资源和环境研究中心的Le说。 布莱尔博士还将在这个项目中指导年轻学生，她将开发在美国和越南使用的推广材料。（SEES研究员）计划，其目标是帮助实现所需的发现，为导致环境，能源和社会可持续性，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在SEES研究员的支持下，该项目将使一个有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续发展相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的地位。

In this Award from the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows Program) Dr. Mary E. Blair from the American Museum of Natural History will carry out genetic measurements of slow lorises combined with socioeconomic studies of those people involved in the trade of these animals. This award has support from: the Biology Directorate, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, and the Office of International and Integrative Activities.The proposed work will combine genetic information from slow lorises as well as socioeconomic data for individuals involved in the trade of these species, to test the hypothesis that the trade in these species is concentrated in Vietnam, which serves as a major transit market for trade within Southeast Asia and to study whether regional and international demand are more important than local factors in driving this trade. The work is unique in that it integrates socioeconomic and biological analyses at multiple scales to develop a better understanding of wildlife trade.The aim of studies like that proposed in this work is to better understand the socioeconomic drivers that influence the trade in wildlife. The ultimate aim of work like this is to better inform policy makers about the underlying social and economic drivers of this trade, with an eye towards developing sustainable management strategies to mitigate the threat to species from this trade. Dr. Blair will be working with collaborators Dr. Eleanor J. Sterling of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History, Prof. Gautam Sethi at Bard College's Center for Environmental Policy and Dr. Minh D. Le from the Centre for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at Vietnam National University. Dr. Blair will also be mentoring young students in this project, and she will develop outreach materials for use in the United States and Vietnam.This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.