Skip to main content
WCS
Menu
Library
Library Catalog
eJournals & eBooks
WCS Research
Archives
Research Use
Finding Aids
Digital Collections
WCS History
WCS Research
Research Publications
Science Data
Services for WCS Researchers
Archives Shop
Bronx Zoo
Department of Tropical Research
Browse By Product
About Us
FAQs
Intern or Volunteer
Staff
Donate
Search WCS.org
Search
search
Popular Search Terms
WCS History
Library and Archives
Library and Archives Menu
Library
Archives
WCS Research
Archives Shop
About Us
Donate
en
fr
Title
Now there is no land: a story of ethnic migration in a protected area landscape in western Uganda
Author(s)
Hartter, J.;Ryan, S. J.;MacKenzie, C. A.;Goldman, A.;Dowhaniuk, N.;Palace, M.;Diem, J. E.;Chapman, C. A.
Published
2014
Publisher
Population and Environment
Published Version DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-014-0227-y
Abstract
Migration is a major factor shaping protected area landscapes. Combining historical narratives with interview, census, and satellite data, we investigate the ways in which migration has transformed the landscape surrounding Kibale National Park in western Uganda. We show that the region has gone from sparsely populated bushland to densely settled subsistence agricultural landscape occupied by tens of thousands of small-scale farming households since the last half of the twentieth century. Population density closer to the park has grown to 1.5 times higher than places more distant from the park. Migration to areas near the park has not necessarily been driven by economic benefits from the park itself, but rather by important push and pull factors at different scales. Results indicate that understanding the social and cultural underpinnings of human migration to, and environmental change along, the borders of protected areas is fundamental to developing appropriate people–park policy as a result of neighboring land use intensification brought about by changing demographics.
Keywords
Migration;Landscape transformation;Population growth;Kibale National Park;Uganda;Protected areas
Access Full Text
A full-text copy of this article may be available. Please email the
WCS Library
to request.
Back
PUB15145