Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Social and Physical Dynamics of Environmental Change in Western Burkina Faso

博士论文研究：布基纳法索西部环境变化的社会和物理动力学

• 批准号: 9506434
• 负责人: Thomas Bassett
• 金额: $ 0.74万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-06-01 至 1996-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9506434&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Physical

SBR-9506434 Thomas J. Bassett Leslie Gray University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Social and Physical Dynamics of Environmental Change in Western Burkina Faso A multi-scale investigation of the social and physical dimensions of land degradation in western Burkina Faso is the goal of this research project. The perceptions and decisions of villagers that constitute the crucial links in the causal chain connecting social processes to land degradation will be evaluated. The effects of changing cropping practices on soil quality and social organization will be analyzed for one village. Hypotheses generated from the single village analysis will be tested using surveys from several villages. Mapping how various processes like new agricultural technologies; transformations in land, labor, and wealth; and shifts in government agricultural and conservation policy, have interacted and influenced the actions, perceptions, and decisions of small-scale farmers, is crucial in understanding and explaining place-specific degradation. Such understanding will improve society's ability to minimize such land degradation.

SBR-9506434托马斯J.巴塞特莱斯利·格雷伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校 布基纳法索西部环境变化的社会和物理动力学 这一研究项目的目标是对布基纳法索西部土地退化的社会和自然层面进行多尺度调查。 将对村民的看法和决定进行评价，这些看法和决定构成了社会进程与土地退化之间因果链的关键环节。 将分析一个村庄改变耕作方式对土壤质量和社会组织的影响。 将使用对多个村庄的调查来测试从单个村庄分析中产生的假设。 绘制各种过程，如新的农业技术;土地，劳动力和财富的转变;以及政府农业和保护政策的转变，如何相互作用并影响小规模农民的行动，观念和决策，对于理解和解释特定地点的退化至关重要。 这种认识将提高社会尽量减少这种土地退化的能力。