2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An analysis of regional system and scale gap issues regarding rural livelihood in North-eastern Tanzania
| Project/Area Number |
23401036
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
UEDA Gen 東北大学, 環境科学研究科, 准教授 (10241514)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IKENO Jun 京都大学, 大学院・アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 教授 (40293930)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
OTSUKI Yoshinori 東北大学, 大学院・理学研究科, 助教 (00272013)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 地域システム / 農村生計 / 農村景観 / 空間スケール / 土地利用 / 空隙性 / タンザニア |
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| Research Abstract |
This study analysed the landscape structure of the regional system, which mediates livelihood at the household level and economic factors at the national level, avoiding the problem, often found in the study and governance of rural Africa, of the scale gap among observations at different scales, and of the mismatch between the scales of observation on the one hand, and explanation and management on the other. It applied local lacunarity analysis to high-resolution satellite images of Mount Meru, and illuminated 1) the landscape structure by up-scaling landscape information derived at the micro scale, 2) characteristics of landscape elements through the analysis of scaling information, and 3) geometrical properties of the extracted landscape elements. The landscape structure at the meso and regional scale is expected to serve as fundamental information that is useful for wider and regional investigation of micro household processes including land inheritance and subdivision.
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