Principal Investigator:
Dr A Grainger
Dates:
1st December 1996 – 31st December 2001
Grant:
EEC
Summary:
The objectives of this research are as follows:
- Develop remote sensing techniques for monitoring dry land degradation.
- Identify the causes of open forest degradation by empirical studies of agriculture and urban expansion taking an integrated approach to biophysical and socio-economic processes.
- Develop the theory of the causes of open forest degradation.
- Develop mathematical models to stimulate spatial trends in open forest degradation.
- Clarify and model the influence of government policies and local and national institutions on the use of open forest lands.
- Synthesize project findings to define what is meant by “sustainable land management” and “sustainable forest management” in open forest lands subject to multiple uses, and develop the theory of the role of open forests in sustainable development.
- Suggest how governments could enhance their policies to make open forest land management and national development more sustainable, and how to use the mathematical models devised in the project as the basis for planning techniques to assist in this.
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