Dissertation Research: Social Causes and Consequences of Environmental Degradation in Tanzania

本论文研究项目将支持学生在 文化人类学专家将前往一个半干旱地区， 坦桑尼亚. 学生学习资源冲突的影响， 牧民对环境，主要是牧场退化的影响。 此外 促使牧民 迁移将被分析，因为它们间接导致 自然环境 学生将使用以下组合 深入的人种学访谈、观察和调查 对政策和人口普查信息进行档案研究。 %%% 这种研究很重要，因为环境 退化导致许多人的生活条件恶化， 世界上的人。 增加对这些因素的了解 造成这种退化可以帮助决策者设计程序 最大限度地减少这些问题。

This dissertation research project will support a student in cultural anthropology who will travel to a semi-arid region of Tanzania. The student study the impact of resource conflicts by herders on environmental, mainly range, degradation. In addition the political and economic factors that have impelled herders to migrate will be analyzed as they indirectly cause degradation in the natural environment. The student will use a combination of intensive ethnographic interviewing and observation and surveys with archival research on policy and census information. %%% This sort of research is important because environmental degradation causes deteriorating living conditions for many people in the world. Increased understanding of the factors causing such degradation can help policy makers design procedures that minimize such problems.