Human influences on forests in southern Ethiopia: the case of Shashemane-Munessa-forest

人类对埃塞俄比亚南部森林的影响：以 Shashemane-Munessa 森林为例

• 批准号: 5420053
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Klaus Müller-Hohenstein
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2003-12-31 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5420053?language=en
• 关键词: Human; influences; forests; southern; Ethiopia

Especially during the last decades, the natural forests of Ethiopia have been heavily disturbed by human activities. Some forests have been totally cleared and converted into fields for agricultural use, other suffered from different influences, such as heavy grazing and selective logging. The ongoing research in the Shashemane-Munessa-study area (Gu 406/8-1,2) showed clearly that, in spite of interdiction and control, forests continue to be cleared and degraded. However, it is not yet sufficiently known, how and why these processes are still going on. Growing population pressure and economic constraints for the people living in and around the forests contribute to the actual situation but allow no final answers to the complex situation. Concerning a sustainable management of the forests there is to no solid basis for recommendations from the socioeconomic and socio-cultural view. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of the traditional needs and forms of forest use, including all forest products, is necessary. The objective of this project is, to achieve this basis by carrying out intensive field observations, the consultation of aerial photographs, satellite imagery and above all semi-structured interviews with the population in the study area in order to contribute to the recommendations for a sustainable use of the Munessa Shasemane forests.

特别是在过去几十年中，埃塞俄比亚的天然森林受到人类活动的严重干扰。有些森林已被完全砍伐，变成农田，其他森林则受到不同的影响，如过度放牧和有选择的砍伐。在Shashemane-Munessa研究区进行的研究（Gu 406/8- 1，2）清楚地表明，尽管有拦截和控制，森林继续被砍伐和退化。然而，人们对这些进程如何以及为何仍在继续还不十分了解，对生活在森林中和森林周围的人们来说，日益增长的人口压力和经济制约因素造成了实际情况，但对复杂的情况还没有最终的答案。关于森林的可持续管理，从社会经济和社会文化角度提出建议没有坚实的基础。因此，必须全面分析传统的需要和森林使用形式，包括所有森林产品。该项目的目标是，在此基础上进行深入的实地观察，查阅航空照片、卫星图像，最重要的是与研究地区的居民进行半结构化访谈，以便为可持续利用Munessa Shasemane森林的建议作出贡献。