Focusing on water, the authors investigate the extent to which the spatial variation in the availability of water is linked with children’s malnutrition in the Sahel, using remotely sensed-based measures of waterholes with health survey data.
The article introduces a new, publically available data extraction system Terra Populus (TerraPop), which was designed to facilitate population–environment studies. The use of TerraPop was showcased by exploring variations in the climate–migration association in Burkina Faso and Senegal based on differences in the local food security context.
In this paper, using a randomized sample of 7,300 children from 3,000 households dispatched within 50 neighborhoods, the authors explore the impact of environmental living conditions on urban child health, focusing specifically on vector control factors that could help to limit potential breeding sites and transmission.
This paper addresses concerns about the potential negative environmental consequences of mass population displacement, through an examination of changes in natural resource use in an area of northern Senegal affected by an influx of Mauritanian refugees in 1989. Drawing on a survey of refugee and local households, the paper examines the livelihood strategies and patterns of natural resource use of the two populations, and considers the notion that refugees are forced, through poverty or for other reasons, to use natural resources in a more destructive manner.
In this paper, the authors identifies the current implications of climatic changes on the transformation of urban centres and international migration in Senegal.
In this paper, the authors used remote sensing based land cover change analysis, archival data, national and international statistical data, and household interviews, to analyze the drivers of environmental change in Eastern Saloum in Central East Senegal.
Recent research into natural resource rehabilitation based on in-depth case studies has highlighted situations where population growth and agricultural intensification have been accompanied by improved rather than deteriorating soil and water resources (e.g. Tiffen et al., 1994). Drawing on new case studies in six countries (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda), this paper examines how widespread are the prospects for positive outcomes of the 'more people, less erosion' type. (Author's abstract)
This paper uses data from Senegal to examine two complementary explanations of seasonal fertility based upon the inability of households to smooth consumption and labor time over the crop seasons. First, if the value of time varies seasonally parents may wish to shift births to those months of the year when the shadow value of time, particularly women's time, is relatively low.
