Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007-3510, USA.
Environ Manage. 2012 Nov;50(5):929-41. doi: 10.1007/s00267-012-9932-4. Epub 2012 Sep 2.
Semi-structured focus group discussions were employed to capture rural Senegalese attitudes and perceptions of their behavior to changes in the climate and their land use and livelihood strategies. Seven focus groups stratified by gender, ethnicity (Wolof and Peulh) and dominant production system (cultivators and pastoralists) in five villages in semi-arid northern Senegal revealed seven main themes. Rural livelihoods remain predominantly based on rainfall dependant practices, and although cultivators and pastoralists had a clear appreciation of changes in natural resources compared to a perceived more favorable past, few adaptive coping strategies beyond established ones were advocated. The seven themes are discussed in detail and their implications for rural livelihoods under future long term climate predictions discussed with the implications of this study for the development of scenarios of future land cover land use.
采用半结构化焦点小组讨论的方式，以了解塞内加尔农村地区的态度和观念，以及他们对气候变化、土地利用和生计策略的变化的行为。在塞内加尔北部半干旱地区的五个村庄，按照性别、种族（沃洛夫族和颇尔族）和主要生产系统（农民和牧民）进行了七个焦点小组讨论，揭示了七个主要主题。农村生计仍然主要依赖于依赖降雨的做法，尽管农民和牧民与过去相比，更清楚地认识到自然资源的变化，但除了已有的适应策略外，很少有人倡导采取其他适应策略。本文详细讨论了这七个主题，并探讨了它们对未来长期气候预测下农村生计的影响，同时还讨论了本研究对未来土地覆盖和土地利用情景发展的影响。
