Migrant worldviews and emergent ecological knowledge

群体内部和群体之间的社会文化动态影响人类对环境的思想、价值观、冲突和行为，并影响人为变化。环境人类学证明了生态过程的地方性知识对可持续管理实践的重要性，而认知人类学则对文化的性质、组织和表达提供了重要的见解。这一建议将这两个理论视角结合在一起，以解决影响人类如何与新环境建立联系的文化动态，进而探讨新环境如何影响新兴文化。该项目将进一步建设研究基础设施，并培训美国研究生。这项混合方法、多地点研究的目的是确定不同世界观迁移到新的环境环境中与保护努力和围绕稀缺资源的冲突有何关系。民族志方法将捕捉研究背景下个人对当地社会文化动态的看法，而文化共识分析将允许基于文化群体、生计和居住社区的居民之间的定量比较。这种混合方法确保了对人类学理论的更广泛贡献，这些理论解释了在一个日益流动、相互联系和多元文化的全球社会中，文化对人类与环境关系的动态影响。它回应了影响自然资源政策所需的更多量化环境人类学的具体呼吁，也解决了移民和文化冲突对人类环境影响的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Socio-cultural dynamics within and between groups influence human thoughts, values, conflicts, and behaviors towards the environment and affect anthropogenic change. Environmental anthropology has demonstrated the importance of local knowledge of ecological processes to sustainable management practices, while cognitive anthropology has provided important insights into the nature, organization, and expression of culture. This proposal brings these two theoretical perspectives together to address the cultural dynamics that influence how humans relate to new environments, and in turn, how new environments influence emergent culture. The project will further build research infrastructure and train U.S. graduate students. The objective of this mixed-method, multi-site study is to determine how the in-migration of diverse worldviews into a new environmental setting relates to conservation efforts and conflicts around scarce resources. Ethnographic methods will capture individuals' views of local socio-cultural dynamics in the study context, while cultural consensus analyses will permit quantitative comparison among and between residents based on cultural group, livelihood, and residential community. This mixed method approach ensures broader contributions to anthropological theories explaining dynamic cultural influences on human relationships to the environment in an increasingly mobile, interconnected, and multi-cultural global society. It responds to specific calls for more quantitative environmental anthropology needed to influence natural resource policies, and it also addresses the influence of migration and cultural conflict on anthropogenic environmental impacts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.