Research Workshop on African Environments: Technology, Modeling, and Political Ecology (to be held in Lawrence, KS, September, 1999)

重点将是利用定量和定性方法开展关于非洲环境的综合研究工作。通过将地理学家可用的新的和不断扩大的技术能力和物理系统建模技术与对区域政治生态问题的理论知识和实践敏感性联系起来，可以在学术、政府和基层层面产生更好的发展政策和研究方法。与会者包括来自美国研究型大学、非洲和欧洲的大学以及非洲政府环境监测机构的代表。讲习班的直接成果将是一本经过编辑的卷，包括与会者的研究报告。研讨会还将向国家科学基金会提出多达三项关于非洲环境变化和环境保护的多研究者、跨学科研究的独立建议。

This interdisciplinary, international research workshop will address how recent advances in Geography, including GIS and remote sensing techniques, environmental modeling, and regional political ecology, can be integrated in future research on African environmental change. The focus will be on developing integrative research efforts on African environments utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. By linking new and ever-expanding technological capabilities and physical-systems-modeling techniques available to geographers with a theoretically informed and practical sensitivity to the issues of regional political ecology, better development policies and research approaches can be generated at academic, government and grassroots levels. Participation includes representatives from US research universities, universities in Africa and Europe, and African government environmental monitoring institutions. The immediate product of the workshop will be an edited volume including the research presentations of the participants. The workshop will also generate as many as three separate proposals to the NSF for multi-investigator, interdisciplinary research on environmental change and environmental protection in Africa.