FORTE - FORest ciTizenship for disaster rEsilience: learning from COVID-19

COVID-19疫情对传统农村社会产生了不成比例的巨大负面影响，这些社会几乎无法获得现代医疗保健。 该研究项目将研究亚马逊森林依赖森林的土著人民如何参与公民权，以行使他们的权利，影响机构和政治进程，提高他们的复原力，减少他们对COVID-19的脆弱性。 这项研究将利用现有数据来量化这些社区过去通过成为更积极参与的公民而减少其脆弱性的机制。 由来自巴西、英国和美国的科学家组成的研究小组还将通过对传统农村社区居民的采访收集新数据，以更好地了解他们参与的机会和障碍。研究结果将分发给利益攸关方，包括巴西的地方、州和联邦政府机构以及决策者。这项研究的结果可以为政策提供指导，以加强包容性民主治理，减少获得保健和其他资源的不平等现象，并提高应对危机的能力。 这项研究的结果具有全球应用性，因此将有助于建立美国作为全球领导者的灾难恢复能力。自下而上的公民身份是边缘化人民自我组织起来要求承认和权利的过程，对灾后恢复、复原力和社会复兴至关重要。 该项目汇集了来自巴西、英国和美国的社会科学家组成的国际团队，研究巴西亚马逊地区的森林居民如何利用集体行动减轻COVID-19大流行的负面影响，并加强抗灾能力。 该研究将：（1）量化森林公民与COVID-19抗灾能力之间的联系;（2）调查COVID-19大流行期间采用的各种森林公民实践;（3）传播森林人关于如何在亚马逊和世界其他地区促进森林公民和提高抗灾能力的学习经验。 该研究项目将通过三个相互关联的项目来解决这些问题-对次级保健、治理和环境数据（整个巴西亚马逊）进行定量分析，在亚马逊和阿克里州选定的城市进行定性实地工作，以及行动研究。 这项研究的结果可以为政策提供指导，以加强包容性民主治理，减少获得保健和其他公共资源的不平等，并提高应对危机的能力。 这项研究的成果是可扩展的，因此可以帮助建立美国作为一个全球领导者的灾难恢复能力。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionately large negative impact on traditional rural societies with little access to modern health care. This research project will study how forest-dependent indigenous people of the Amazon forest engaged in citizenship to exercise their rights to influence institutions and political processes that increased their resilience and reduced their vulnerability to COVID-19. The study will use existing data to quantify the mechanisms through which these communities reduced their vulnerability in the past by being more engaged citizens. The research team, consisting of scientists from Brazil, the UK, and the US, will also collect new data using interviews with people living in traditional rural communities, to better understand the opportunities and barriers to their engagement. The research results will be disseminated to stakeholders, including local, state, and federal governmental agencies, and policy makers in Brazil. The results of this research could provide guidance on policies to strengthen inclusive democratic governance, reduce unequal access to health and other resources, and increase resilience to crises. The results of this research have global application, hence will help establish the US as a global leader in disaster resilience. Citizenship from below, a process through which marginalized peoples self-organize to claim recognition and rights, is crucial to disaster recovery, resilience, and societal renewal. This project assembles an international team of social scientists from Brazil, UK, and the US to study how the forest people of Brazilian Amazonia have used collective action to mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthen disaster resilience. The study will: (1) quantify linkages between forest citizenship and COVID-19 resilience; (2) investigate various practices of forest citizenship that were employed during the COVID-19 pandemic; and (3) disseminate learning experiences of the forest people on how to promote forest citizenship and enhance disaster resilience across Amazonia and other parts of the world. The research project will address these questions through three interlinked projects---quantitative analysis of secondary health, governance, and environmental data (entire Brazilian Amazon), qualitative fieldwork in selected municipalities in Amazonia and Acre State, and action-research. The results of this research could provide guidance on policies to strengthen inclusive democratic governance, reduce unequal access to health and other public resources, and increase resilience to crises. The result of this research is scalable, hence can help establish the US as a global leader in disaster resilience.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.