| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Growing attention is being focused on human-modified vegetations maintained by various local subsistence activities, which have eventually supported rich bio- and cultural diversity. The “Upper Guinea Forest Ecosystem” in West Africa is designated as one of the biodiversity hotspots because of its rich fauna and flora, but the area is composed mostly of human-modified vegetation. This project described andanalyzed the historical interactions between the Guinean unique vegetation and local people’s land use systems. The study strongly implies that the vegetation is better evaluated positively as cultural or “pastoral” landscape rather than the conventional outsiders’view of the last remaining remnant of the natural forest being destroyed by the local people.
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