2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Ethno-knowledge and the human struggle to environmental changes in Africa
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14252012
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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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 | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
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Principal Investigator |
HORI Nobuyuki Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Urban Environment, Professor, 都市環境学部, 教授 (40087143)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OYAMA Shuichi Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Urban Environment, Professor, 都市環境学部, 助手 (00322347)
SHINODA Masato Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Urban Environment, Associate Professor, 都市環境学部, 助教授 (30211957)
SHIKANO Kazuhiro Shimane Prefectural Shimane Women's College, Department of Liberal Arts, Associate Professor, 助教授 (10226110)
CHINEN Tamio Ryutsu Keizai University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (50236808)
TAKAOKA Sadao Senshu University, Department of Geography, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (90260786)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2005
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| Keywords | Africa / savanna / ethno-ecological knowledge / environmental change / climate fluctuation / human response / landuse / subsistence changes |
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| Research Abstract |
People in Africa, cultivators, pastoral people and fishermen accumulated the ethno-ecological knowledges to the natural environment. Recent years, people must response to the natural environmental changes of climate, topography, vegetation and landscape, economic and social changes to the market-oriented economy systems by the SAP (Structural Adjustment Program). This research project focus on the environmental changes in recent years after African nation independence and clarified the ethno-ecological knowledge of the cultivators and pastoral people. subsequently, we carried out the case studies on the human responses to drastic environmental changes, including geo-ecological, socio-political and economical conditions. The comparison of the case studies indicates the syntax of the human-environment relationship under the regional or ethnological theories.
This project concentrated on the three savanna regions, Niger in West Africa, Cameroon in central Africa and Kenya in East Africa. In these regions, we continued intensive research on the relationship of the ethno-ecological knowledge and drastic environmental changes in order to examine the mode of subsistence and human responses. We applied remote sensing and GIS techniques for understanding the complex of climate-landscape and vegetation as well as long-term field research on the human recognition to natural environment. We made trials to re-estimate the importance of the ethno-ecological knowledge.
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Research Products
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[Book] 砂漠と気候2002
Author(s)
篠田 雅人
Total Pages
169
Publisher
成山堂書店
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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