Using Geospatial Analysis to Assess the Influence of Land-Use Change and Conservation on Pastoralist Access to Drought Resources.
Drought resource areas (DRAs) maintain natural-resource availability during periods of low rainfall, and are critical for sustaining wildlife, livestock and human communities. This study analysed remote sensing data at two spatial scales in order to assess the distribution of DRAs relative to landus...
| Published in: | Nomadic Peoples Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 120 - 146 |
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White Horse Press
2015
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=101169571&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 101169571 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 08227942 9GK jtl: Nomadic Peoples issn: 08227942 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2015 vid: 19 iid: 1 pid: 12888 pub: White Horse Press artinfo: ui: 101169571 10.3197/np.2015.190108 ppf: 120 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 471KB tig: atl: Using Geospatial Analysis to Assess the Influence of Land-Use Change and Conservation on Pastoralist Access to Drought Resources. aug: au: Miller, Brian W. su: East Africa Land use Droughts Pastoral societies Geospatial data Nature reserves sug: subj: Land use Droughts Pastoral societies East Africa Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions Geospatial data Nature reserves keyword: land-use/land-cover change Maasai protected areas remote sensing land-use/land-cover change Maasai protected areas remote sensing ab: Drought resource areas (DRAs) maintain natural-resource availability during periods of low rainfall, and are critical for sustaining wildlife, livestock and human communities. This study analysed remote sensing data at two spatial scales in order to assess the distribution of DRAs relative to landuse changes and conservation efforts in East Africa. Results suggest that cultivation has exerted an especially strong influence on rangeland DRA availability across the Kenya/Tanzania border region, but conservation areas also contained a disproportionate area of DRAs. For a local scale within the region (the Simanjiro Plains and Tarangire National Park), DRAs were more evenly distributed across land-use zones, but available sites were generally on steeper slopes. Overall, the area of DRAs that were not cultivated or conserved was relatively small, accounting for about two per cent of the landscape. The area of DRAs available to pastoralist households is likely even smaller, considering that there are a variety of other factors affecting resource access (e.g. risks of livestock disease and conflict, forage quality, resource management institutions). These findings highlight the scarcity and significance of available DRAs within this iconic landscape. More broadly, this study, together with previous research on the topic, demonstrates that remote sensing and ethnographic methods can contribute complementary insights into issues of resource access. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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