The ethnography of landscape: GIS and remote sensing in the study of forest change in West African Guinea Savanna

American Anthropologist

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 271-289

  Nyerges, A Endre ^a   Green, Glen Martin ^b  

^a Anthropology/Sociology Prog Ctr C   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Ecological anthropology; Remote sensing; Sierra Leone; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034345165     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2000.102.2.271     Document Type: Article

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