NSF Award Abstract - #9817743| NSF Award Abstract - #9817743 |
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| NSF Org | EAR |
| Latest Amendment Date | January 25, 2002 |
| Award Number | 9817743 |
| Award Instrument | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager |
L. Douglas James EAR DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES GEO DIRECTORATE FOR GEOSCIENCES |
| Start Date | February 15, 1999 |
| Expires | January 31, 2003 (Estimated) |
| Expected Total Amount | $499735 (Estimated) |
| Investigator |
Thomas K. Park Tpark@u.arizona.edu (Principal Investigator current) Amadou K. Thiam (Co-Principal Investigator current) Mamadou A. Baro (Co-Principal Investigator current) Stuart Marsh (Co-Principal Investigator current) Gary Christopherson (Co-Principal Investigator current) |
| Sponsor |
U of Arizona 601 Administration Building Tucson, AZ 85721 602/621-2211 |
| NSF Program | 1579 HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES |
| Field Application | 0000099 Other Applications NEC |
| Program Reference Code | 0000,1349,5928,9189,OTHR, |
9817743 ParkThe researchers would use remote-sensing images from 1982-98 to document urban change in six African cities and contrast what happens in urban areas with development in urban hinterlands. In work weighted toward the poorer sections of the cities, households would be interviewed to learn about livelihood strategy histories, relationships to natural resource use, and impacts of changes in urban structure.The results would be used to assess the effects of various projects and to initiate hypotheses that could be tested in later studies. A preliminary hypothesis is that the process of urbanization in arid Africa has produced a new poor, people whose lives are shaped more by collective use of aid than by individual maximizing behavior. If this is true, the information can be used in urban planning as well as in furthering the understanding of African urbanization.
