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

这篇论文研究项目将资助一名文化人类学专业的学生前往坦桑尼亚的半干旱地区。学生研究牧民资源冲突对环境的影响，主要是范围、退化。此外，还将分析促使牧民迁徙的政治和经济因素，因为这些因素间接导致自然环境退化。学生将使用密集的民族志访谈和观察以及调查与政策和人口普查信息的档案研究相结合的方法。这类研究很重要，因为环境退化导致世界上许多人的生活条件恶化。加深对导致这种退化的因素的了解，可以帮助政策制定者设计将此类问题降至最低的程序。

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.