Environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land-use change: Conceptual model, approach and preliminary results

More effective control of tsetse-transmitted trypanosomiasis may open vast areas of Africa to livestock production, both increasing food production and endangering biodiversity on the continent. This paper Reports on the Development of a conceptual model of the linkages between trypanosomiasis contr...

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Autores principales: Reid, Robin S., Kruska, Russell L., Ellis, J.E., Wilson, C.J., Perry, Brian D.
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: OAU/STRC 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/50474
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author Reid, Robin S.
Kruska, Russell L.
Ellis, J.E.
Wilson, C.J.
Perry, Brian D.
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Kruska, Russell L.
Perry, Brian D.
Reid, Robin S.
Wilson, C.J.
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Wilson, C.J.
Perry, Brian D.
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description More effective control of tsetse-transmitted trypanosomiasis may open vast areas of Africa to livestock production, both increasing food production and endangering biodiversity on the continent. This paper Reports on the Development of a conceptual model of the linkages between trypanosomiasis control and land-use, and then discusses approaches to determine how land-use change affects the environment. The conceptual model integrates epidemiological, ecological, economic and social information into the study of control-induced changes in land-use at continental, regional, national and local scales. Geographical information systems (GIS) are used to generate hypotheses and to analyse broad-scale patterns, while field studies are used to establish causality and to ground-truth large-scale data sets. Preliminary analyses provide support for the hypothesis that trypanosomiasis is retarding the large-scale correlations show that there is no simple inverse relationship between the presence of tsetse and the presence of agricultural land-use and that tsetse appears to limit agricultural land-use more strongly in southern than in West Africa. These results imply that decisions concerning where and when to control trypanosomiasis can have strong implications for the success of efforts to enhance human welfare and to maintain environmental quality.
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spelling CGSpace504742024-03-06T10:16:43Z Environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land-use change: Conceptual model, approach and preliminary results Reid, Robin S. Kruska, Russell L. Ellis, J.E. Wilson, C.J. Perry, Brian D. trypanosomiasis disease control environmental factors land use models More effective control of tsetse-transmitted trypanosomiasis may open vast areas of Africa to livestock production, both increasing food production and endangering biodiversity on the continent. This paper Reports on the Development of a conceptual model of the linkages between trypanosomiasis control and land-use, and then discusses approaches to determine how land-use change affects the environment. The conceptual model integrates epidemiological, ecological, economic and social information into the study of control-induced changes in land-use at continental, regional, national and local scales. Geographical information systems (GIS) are used to generate hypotheses and to analyse broad-scale patterns, while field studies are used to establish causality and to ground-truth large-scale data sets. Preliminary analyses provide support for the hypothesis that trypanosomiasis is retarding the large-scale correlations show that there is no simple inverse relationship between the presence of tsetse and the presence of agricultural land-use and that tsetse appears to limit agricultural land-use more strongly in southern than in West Africa. These results imply that decisions concerning where and when to control trypanosomiasis can have strong implications for the success of efforts to enhance human welfare and to maintain environmental quality. 1995 2014-10-31T06:09:16Z 2014-10-31T06:09:16Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/50474 en Limited Access OAU/STRC
spellingShingle trypanosomiasis
disease control
environmental factors
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models
Reid, Robin S.
Kruska, Russell L.
Ellis, J.E.
Wilson, C.J.
Perry, Brian D.
Environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land-use change: Conceptual model, approach and preliminary results
title Environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land-use change: Conceptual model, approach and preliminary results
title_full Environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land-use change: Conceptual model, approach and preliminary results
title_fullStr Environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land-use change: Conceptual model, approach and preliminary results
title_full_unstemmed Environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land-use change: Conceptual model, approach and preliminary results
title_short Environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land-use change: Conceptual model, approach and preliminary results
title_sort environmental impacts of trypanosomiasis control through land use change conceptual model approach and preliminary results
topic trypanosomiasis
disease control
environmental factors
land use
models
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