Environment Histories of Natural Resources Use in Tropical Africa

在这项研究中，我们试图从环境历史的角度描述热带非洲地区的自然资源利用。特别分析了狩猎、采集、捕鱼、放牧、耕作等生存活动的历史变迁及其原因。通过三年的研究，我们从三个方面阐述了：1)英国贝楚瓦纳德保护区殖民时代的天花病史；2)埃塞俄比亚南部种群动态与耕作的关系；3)莫桑比克北部海洋资源利用的生态史；4)南非及周边国家的昆虫聚集。然后，我们可以将土地利用变化模型显示为各个研究领域的自然资源利用状况。我们的研究成果主要以论文形式发表在《世界区域地理第11期非洲》一书中。2007年，Ikeya K.、Sato R.和Takeuchi S.

In this study, we tried to describe the natural resource uses in tropical Africa area from the perspectives from environmental history. Especially, we analyzed the historical changes and its cause about following subsistence activities that hunting, gathering, fishing, stock raising and cultivation etc.From the three years study, we described following three points that 1) smallpox disease history during colonial eras in British Bechuwanaland Protectorate, 2) relation between population dynamics and cultivations in the southern Ethiopia, 3) eco-history of marine resource uses in the northern Mozambique, and 4) the insects gathering in South Africa and neighboring countries. Then, we could show the land use changes model as the natural resource use condition in various studied fields.Our research results were mainly published as papers in the book 'World Regional Geographies No.11 Africa Von.' in 2007, co-edited by Ikeya K., Sato R. and Takeuchi S.