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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
Temporal heterogeneity in the study of African land use: Interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology, human geography and remote sensing
Human Ecology, Volume 35, No. 1, Year 2007
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Description
This paper introduces a set of four collaborative papers exploring temporal heterogeneity in the analysis of African land use over a decadal time period, from 10 to 50 years, in the second half of the twentieth century. The four cases were chosen amongst the seven teams of anthropologists, human geographers and remote sensing specialists who had carried out long-term research and who met to discuss their findings at a workshop in 2003. All seven teams' work and the collective discussion'on Casamance (Senegal), Brong Ahafo (Ghana), Southern Niger/ Northern Cote d'Ivoire, Oyo State (Nigeria), Maasai Mara (Kenya and Tanzania), Gwembe (Zambia), and Malawi - inform this introduction. We identify several temporal processes in all the cases, each operating on its own temporal frame: population growth and, above all, mobility; livelihood change through crop and occupational change; tenure ambiguity; powerful though "punctuated" interventions by state policy; and climate change. Conceptual and methodological implications are disussed. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.
Authors & Co-Authors
Guyer, Jane I.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University
Lambin, Eric F.
Belgium, Louvain-la-neuve
Université Catholique de Louvain
Cliggett, Lisa
United States, Lexington
University of Kentucky
Walker, Peter A.
United States, Eugene
University of Oregon
Amanor, Kojo Sebastian
Ghana, Accra
University of Ghana
Bassett, Thomas J.
United States, Urbana
University of Illinois Urbana-champaign
Colson, Elizabeth
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Hay, Rod
United States, Carson
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Homewood, Katherine M.
United Kingdom, London
University College London
Linares, Olga
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Pabi, Opoku
Ghana, Accra
University of Ghana
Peters, Pauline E.
United States, Cambridge
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Scudder, Thayer
United States, Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Turner, Matthew D.
United States, Madison
University of Wisconsin-madison
Unruh, Jon D.
Canada, Montreal
Université Mcgill
Statistics
Citations: 42
Authors: 15
Affiliations: 14
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s10745-006-9085-2
ISSN:
03007839
Research Areas
Environmental
Genetics And Genomics
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Locations
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Malawi
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Tanzania
Zambia