TY - JOUR
T1 - Temporal heterogeneity in the study of African land use
T2 - Interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology, human geography and remote sensing
AU - Guyer, Jane I.
AU - Lambin, Eric F.
AU - Cliggett, Lisa
AU - Walker, Peter
AU - Amanor, Kojo
AU - Bassett, Thomas
AU - Colson, Elizabeth
AU - Hay, Rod
AU - Homewood, Katherine
AU - Linares, Olga
AU - Pabi, Opoku
AU - Peters, Pauline
AU - Scudder, Thayer
AU - Turner, Matthew
AU - Unruh, John
PY - 2007/2
Y1 - 2007/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - African land use
KW - Anthropology
KW - Long term studies
KW - Remote sensing
KW - Temporal heterogeneity
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U2 - 10.1007/s10745-006-9085-2
DO - 10.1007/s10745-006-9085-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847006219
SN - 0300-7839
VL - 35
SP - 3
EP - 17
JO - Human Ecology
JF - Human Ecology
IS - 1
ER -