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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.01.003
	Transborder political ecology of mangroves in Senegal and The Gambia
	Fent A.; Bardou R.; Carney J.; Cavanaugh K.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
起始页码	214
结束页码	226
卷号	54
英文摘要	Existing studies of mangroves in Senegal and The Gambia have found net increases in mangrove tree cover at the national scale, but these do not accord with local accounts and explanations of loss. This paper utilizes remote sensing analysis and political ecology frameworks to assess local accounts of mangrove wood trafficking across the border between The Gambia and southern Senegal, which were encountered in conducting qualitative field research. The remote sensing results demonstrate overall increases in mangrove cover in The Gambia and in the Sine Saloum and Low Casamance estuaries in Senegal between 1988 and 2018, but also highlight greater declines in mangrove cover in Low Casamance in the 1990s—a period of heightened regional political conflict—and in particular areas of the estuary near the Gambian and Guinea-Bissauan borders. Focusing on political ecology's attention to multiple scales of analysis, this paper addresses divergent interpretations of mangrove changes in the region, and how local accounts of destruction may not be fully captured by the scale of observation and analysis in remote sensing. The paper argues for greater attention to spatial and temporal variation in studies of mangrove dynamics, and greater consideration for how these patterns may result from confluences of political, social, and natural factors. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Mangroves; Political ecology; Remote sensing; Scale; West Africa
学科领域	estuary; forest dynamics; mangrove; political discourse; population decline; remote sensing; temporal variation; trafficking; transboundary cooperation; wood; Gambia; Senegal; Rhizophoraceae
语种	英语
scopus关键词	estuary; forest dynamics; mangrove; political discourse; population decline; remote sensing; temporal variation; trafficking; transboundary cooperation; wood; Gambia; Senegal; Rhizophoraceae
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117060
作者单位	Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 1255 Bunche Hall Box 951524, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fent A.,Bardou R.,Carney J.,et al. Transborder political ecology of mangroves in Senegal and The Gambia[J],2019,54.
APA	Fent A.,Bardou R.,Carney J.,&Cavanaugh K..(2019).Transborder political ecology of mangroves in Senegal and The Gambia.Global Environmental change,54.
MLA	Fent A.,et al."Transborder political ecology of mangroves in Senegal and The Gambia".Global Environmental change 54(2019).