Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| 项目编号 | 1261800 |
| SCHOLARS AWARDS: Climate, Population Density, and Remote Sensing: Identifying Social-Ecological Hotspots | |
| Colin West | |
| 主持机构 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 开始日期 | 2013-08-01 |
| 结束日期 | 2015-07-31 |
| 资助经费 | 54999(USD) |
| 项目类别 | Standard Grant |
| 资助机构 | US-NSF（美国国家科学基金会） |
| 项目所属计划 | CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCTIC SOCIAL SCIENCES |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | 美国 |
| 英文简介 | University of North Carolina (UNC) ecological anthropologist Colin Thor West will conduct research on land use and land cover change (LULCC) on ecological hotspots. The research will be focused on the northern Central Plateau of Burkina Faso, a place long recorded by experts as a textbook example of anthropogenic desertification. This region is part of the larger Sahel where population pressure and droughts are causing widespread environmental harm. More recent analyses, however, have documented a reversal in this process. Satellite imagery has detected a process of "greening" in the Sahel and it is particularly pronounced on the northern Central Plateau. Thus, there are conflicting interpretations of human-environment dynamics that generally describe either a widespread and uniform trajectory of environmental degradation (desertification) or a similarly homogeneous trajectory of environmental rehabilitation (greening). Previous ethnographic fieldwork by the PI suggests that both processes are occurring simultaneously but in different places at different points in time. Using remote sensing techniques, this proposed research will identify social-ecological hotspots where negative (degrading) and positive (rehabilitating) human-environment interactions are occurring. Thus, it will show that land degradation/rehabilitation are ultimately patchy and discontinuous processes that co-occur within the same landscape. Dr. West will develop basic skills in remote sensing analysis through training at UNC?s Landscape Ecology and Biogeography Lab. Dr. Aaron Moody, an associate professor in UNC's Department of Geography, will mentor him in data acquisition, processing and analysis. The research will produce a spatially and temporally explicit dataset of vegetation, rainfall, and population that identifies social-ecological hotspots, which will enable development organizations and government agencies to better target assistance. |
| 来源学科分类 | Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
| URL | https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1261800 |
| 资源类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/343452 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Colin West.SCHOLARS AWARDS: Climate, Population Density, and Remote Sensing: Identifying Social-Ecological Hotspots.2013. |
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