Does community-based conservation make communities more resilient to disasters?

我的博士研究将调查社区保护（CBC）是否使社区对灾害更有弹性，使用肯尼亚北部的CBC案例研究。具体而言，我将研究2019年至2021年期间影响肯尼亚北部的三次重叠灾害期间社区保护组织与牧民社区的相互作用，包括2019冠状病毒病大流行、持续的沙漠蝗灾和几次严重洪水。考虑到生物多样性保护被认为是在大灭绝时代实现全球生物多样性目标的关键途径，这个问题既及时又重要，但社区保护如何与社区应对危机和灾难的能力相结合，并在危机和灾难之后恢复，仍然没有得到充分的研究

My PhD research will investigate whether community-based conservation (CBC) makes communitiesmore resilient to disasters, using a case study of CBC in northern Kenya. Specifically, I will examinethe interactions of community conservancies with pastoralist communities during three overlappingdisasters affecting northern Kenya between 2019 and 2021, including the COVID-19 pandemic, anongoing desert locust infestation and several severe floods. This question is both timely andimportant given that CBC is being promoted as a key pathway to achieving global biodiversity goalsin an era of mass extinction, yet how community conservancies intersect with communities' abilityto cope during, and recover following, periods of crisis and disaster remains understudied