Forest citizenship for disaster resilience: learning from COVID-19

下层公民身份是边缘化人群自我组织起来，通过要求承认和权利来创造公民身份的过程，这对灾后恢复、复原力和社会复兴至关重要，据报道，在应对COVID-19中也得到了借鉴。巴西亚马逊地区为研究受COVID-19影响严重的边缘化人群如何利用公民身份来减轻大流行的负面社会影响，支持在大流行后的世界中实现更大的复原力提供了一个舞台。亚马逊人参与森林公民活动，我们将其定义为争取不同机构认可的斗争，从而能够要求这些机构的权利（例如领土权利）。我们认为，2019冠状病毒病是一个断裂，森林公民可以积极应对，通过改善民主治理和政治参与实现社会复兴。FORTE组建了一个多学科团队，以了解和加强森林人民在加强抗灾能力方面的集体行动和转型变革。我们将通过跨大西洋研究网络推进对森林公民的实证和理论理解，将巴西、美国和英国的公民和恢复力方法纳入对话，支持实地提高灾害恢复力。我们的目标是：(1)量化森林公民与COVID-19抵御能力之间的联系；(2)了解与COVID-19经验相关的森林公民实践；(3)了解并传播在亚马逊地区促进森林公民和增强抗灾能力的条件。我们通过三个相互关联的工作包（WPs）来解决这些问题：二级卫生、治理和环境数据的定量分析（整个巴西亚马逊）（WP1），在亚马逊州和阿克里州选定的城市进行定性实地调查（WP2），以及行动研究（WP3）。我们的研究基于跨学科和非等级的“团队科学”，其中包括不同的声音，各种知识和价值体系（包括森林人民的），从而产生更好的结果。我们的目标是让这个项目的遗产成为一个更加平等、包容和有弹性的巴西亚马逊社会。

Citizenship from below, a process through which marginalized peoples self-organize to create citizenship through claiming recognition and rights, is crucial to disaster recovery, resilience, and societal renewal and reportedly being drawn upon in responses to COVID-19. Brazilian Amazonia provides an arena to examine how marginalized people---disproportionately affected by COVID-19---are using citizenship to mitigate the pandemic's negative societal effects, supporting a bounce forward to greater resilience in the post-pandemic world. Amazonians engage in forest citizenship, which we define as struggles for recognition from different institutions, enabling claiming of rights from those institutions (e.g. territorial rights). We see COVID-19 as a rupture that forest citizenship can respond positively to, delivering societal renewal through improved democratic governance and political participation. FORTE assembles a multi-disciplinary team to understand and enhance forest peoples' collective action and transformational change in strengthening disaster resilience. We will advance empirical and theoretical understandings of forest citizenship---placing approaches to citizenship and resilience from Brazil, the US, and UK into dialogue---through a Trans-Atlantic research network supporting on-the-ground improvements in disaster resilience. Our objectives are:(1) quantify linkages between forest citizenship and COVID-19 resilience;(2) understand practices of forest citizenship in relation to COVID-19 experiences;(3) understand and disseminate learning on conditions for promoting forest citizenship and enhancing disaster resilience across Amazonia. We address these through three interlinked Work Packages (WPs): quantitative analysis of secondary health, governance and environmental data (entire Brazilian Amazon) (WP1), qualitative fieldwork in selected municipalities in Amazonas and Acre State (WP2), and action-research (WP3). Our research is based in an interdisciplinary and non-hierarchical 'team science,' which includes diverse voices, kinds of knowledge and value systems (including those of forest peoples), leading to better outcomes. Our ambition is for the project's legacy to be a Brazilian Amazonian society which is more equal, inclusive and resilient.