Doctoral Dissertation Research: Missing Links: Investigating the Socially-Differentiated Effects of Land Cover Change in a Rural Zambian Frontier

肯塔基州大学博士候选人艾莉森D。Harnish，由丽莎C博士监督。Cliggett将研究基于性别和年龄的劳动分工，社会经济地位和家庭组成的变化如何影响世界各地日益普遍的自然资源下降的经历。这项研究超越了关于环境变化原因的争论，揭示了环境变化对人类的可测量影响。该研究将传统的人种学技术与参与性方法和地理信息科学相结合，将促进环境人类学领域的持续增长和政策相关性。Harnish将在Chikanta进行研究，Chikanta是赞比亚南部毗邻Kafue国家公园的农村农业前沿。这项研究整合了现有的650个家庭的人口调查与分析的时间序列（1970年，1986年，2000年）的遥感（航空和卫星）图像以及深入和后续的采访，两个绘图练习，和参与观察。该项目还将有助于对1950年代后期因卡里巴大坝而迁移的Gwembe汤加人口的社会和环境后果进行长期评估。这将包括建立土地覆被变化和采掘劳动的视觉表示，绘制（a）相对于移民家园的环境资源分布和（B）不同行为者收集环境资源所需的时间和距离。这项研究很重要，因为土地覆被的变化可能会产生重大和实质上不平等的后果，不仅对Chikanta居民，而且对全世界依赖自然资源谋生的人们。这个项目将有助于了解性别、发展和环境之间错综复杂的相互关系，因为对妇女脆弱性的日益关注正在塑造国际发展和保护的优先事项。将农村妇女描述为由于其家务劳动而与自然环境的联系更紧密，因此更容易受到环境变化的影响，这可能会导致研究人员和决策者无意中将男子和青年的经历边缘化，并淡化年龄和阶级等其他变量，这些变量也会影响人们与自然环境的关系。通过关注环境变化对社会的不同影响，并强调所有社会类别的异质性，该项目将有助于消除对农村人口和第三世界妇女的陈规定型观念。该项目还支持社会科学家的教育和培训。

University of Kentucky Doctoral Candidate Allison D. Harnish, supervised by Dr. Lisa C. Cliggett, will undertake research on how variability in gender- and age-based divisions of labor, socioeconomic status, and household composition affect the experience of natural resource declines that are increasingly common throughout the world. The research moves beyond debates regarding the causes of environmental change to uncover measurable effects of environmental change on humans. Incorporating conventional ethnographic techniques with participatory methods and geographic information science, the research will foster continued growth and policy relevance in the area of environmental anthropology. Harnish will carry out the research in Chikanta, a rural farming frontier in southern Zambia abutting Kafue National Park. This study integrates an existing 650-household demographic survey with analyses of a time series (1970, 1986, 2000) of remotely sensed (aerial and satellite) imagery as well as in-depth and follow-up interviews, two mapping exercises, and participant observation. The project also will contribute to an ongoing longitudinal assessment of the social and environmental consequences of relocation for a population of Gwembe Tonga who were displaced by Kariba Dam in the late-1950s. This will including building a visual representation of land cover change and extractive labor that plots (a) the distribution of environmental resources relative to migrant homesteads and (b) the time and distance required by different actors for the collection of environmental resources. This research is important because changes in land cover are likely to bear substantial and substantially unequal consequences, not just for Chikanta residents, but for people worldwide who depend on natural resources for their livelihood. This project will contribute to understanding the intricate interconnections between gender, development, and environment at a time when proliferating concern for women's vulnerability is shaping international development and conservation priorities. Depictions of rural women as more linked to the natural environment by virtue their domestic labor and, so, more vulnerable to environmental change may lead researchers and policymakers inadvertently to marginalize the experiences of men and youth, and to downplay other variables, such as age and class, that also affect people's relationships with the natural environment. By focusing on the socially-differentiated effects of environmental change and emphasizing the heterogeneity of all social categories, this project will help to counter stereotypical portrayals of rural peoples and Third-World women. The project also supports the education and training of a social scientist.