Dissertation Research:  Ecological and Economic Changes     in Madagascar
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This dissertation research project will support a student's field               research in Madagascar for a period of a year on how primitive                  agriculturalists change their physical environment, which is a                  rain forest.  The student will work with local experts to study                 the farming and marketing activities of two communities to                      understand the reasons for the farmers' decisions which impact                  the rain forest environment.  Methods will include participant-                 observation, interviewing, and formal surveys.  A computerized                  spatial database is being used to relate the motive forces of                   farmers to place-specific, documented environmental changes.                                                                                                    This research is important because the degradation of the rain                  forest environment is one of the most significant ecological                    facts of life in the modern world, with implications for                        societies far removed from the specific forest locations.  Any                  increase in our understanding of how and why the forests are                    destroyed, and how humans interact with the changing forest, can                help us control this destruction in the future.
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