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Bottom-Up Perspectives on the Re-Greening of the Sahel: An Evaluation of the Spatial Relationship between Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) and Tree-Cover in Burkina Faso by Thor West, Colin, Benecky, Sarah, Karlsson, Cassandra, Reiss, Bella, Moody, Aaron J.

“…The Re-Greening of the West African Sahel has attracted great interdisciplinary interest since it was originally detected in the mid-2000s. Studies have…”
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Seasonal Climate Variation and Caribou Availability: Modeling Sequential Movement Using Satellite-Relocation Data by Nicolson, Craig, Berman, Matthew, West, Colin Thor, Kofinas, Gary P., Griffith, Brad, Russell, Don, Dugan, Darcy

“…Livelihood systems that depend on mobile resources must constantly adapt to change. For people living in permanent settlements, environmental changes that…”
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Indirect Reciprocity, Resource Sharing, and Environmental Risk: Evidence from Field Experiments in Siberia by Howe, E Lance, Murphy, James J, Gerkey, Drew, West, Colin Thor

“…Integrating information from existing research, qualitative ethnographic interviews, and participant observation, we designed a field experiment that…”
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Migration and Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Burkina Faso: a comparative case study by West, Colin, Nébié, Elisabeth

“…In the Sahelian country of Burkina Faso, West Africa, population pressure, poor resource management, and reduced rainfall have exacerbated land degradation. A…”
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Documenting livelihood trajectories in the context of development interventions in northern Burkina Faso by Colin Thor West

“…The northern Central Plateau of Burkina Faso has been the site of extensive development assistance since the 1980s. Thousands of hectares of degraded land have…”
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'Where's the map?': Integrating ethnography with maps to understand the complementarity between pastoral mobility and border formation by Ilboudo-Nébié, Elisabeth Kago, West, Colin Thor, Crane, Todd Andrew

“…The resettlement of herders in pastoral zones is often criticized for hindering pastoral mobility, which is essential to survival. We integrate narratives of…”
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Unraveling the Sikasso Paradox: Agricultural Change and Malnutrition in Sikasso, Mali by Cooper, Matthew William, West, Colin Thor

“…When cash cropping leads to agricultural and livelihood changes in the Global South, concern about food security is common among policy makers. This is indeed…”
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Sharing, Social Norms, and Social Distance: Experimental Evidence from Russia and Western Alaska by Howe, E. Lance, Murphy, James J., Gerkey, Drew, Stoddard, Olga B., West, Colin Thor

“…This paper investigates how dictator giving varies by social context and worthiness of the recipient. We conduct lab-in-the-field experiments in Kamchatka,…”
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Domestic Transitions, Desiccation, Agricultural Intensification, and Livelihood Diversification among Rural Households on the Central Plateau, Burkina Faso by West, Colin Thor

“…Understanding how and why domestic groups alter their function and form has long been a theme within anthropology. Numerous accounts have detailed the…”
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Overcoming the Boundaries of History: Extracting Land Use and Land Cover Features from Archival Maps of Northern Burkina Faso Using GIS Software by Rojas, Jr, Alfredo J., West, Colin Thor, McDaniel, Philip, Longo, Julia, Ramachandran, Vishnu, Gauger, Natalie R., Moody, Aaron

“…Archival maps provide a valuable way to explore historical environmental data collected before the use of satellite imagery. Archival maps in their physical…”
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Household Extension and Fragmentation: Investigating the Socio-Environmental Dynamics of Mossi Domestic Transitions by West, Colin Thor

“…Recent studies in West Africa and other parts of the world suggest that globalization and modernization make extended forms of domestic organization untenable…”
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Public and Private Responses to Food Insecurity: Complementarity in B urkina F aso by West, Colin Thor

“…This article explores the contemporary context of food insecurity in M ossi communities of the northern C entral P lateau region of B urkina F aso. Drawing on…”
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Measuring the environmental context of child growth in Burkina Faso by Rojas, Alfredo J., Gray, Clark L., West, Colin Thor

“…Child growth failure, as indicated by low height-for-age z-scores (HAZ), is an important metric of health, social inequality, and food insecurity…”
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Protocols for Conducting Drone Fieldwork in Togo, West Africa by West, Colin Thor, Saparapa, Rajah, Nomedji, Koff, Maloney, Devon, Moody, Aaron

“…Fieldwork is a hallmark of anthropology and the experience of being in the field features prominently in scholarly works. The processes by which…”
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survey of living conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA): A comparative sustainable livelihoods assessment by West, Colin Thor

“…The Arctic is a region of the world experiencing extremely rapid climatic and social change. Indigenous communities have faced similar challenges for millennia…”
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Ground-Truthing Sahelian Greening: Ethnographic and Spatial Evidence from Burkina Faso by West, Colin Thor, Moody, Aaron, Nébié, Elisabeth Kago, Sanon, Oumar

“…Historically, the Sahel of West Africa has been considered synonymous with desertification. In recent decades, however, satellite images reveal patterns of…”
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Enough is enough: how West African farmers judge water sufficiency by Roncoli, Carla, Orlove, Ben, Ungemach, Christoph, Dowd-Uribe, Brian, West, Colin Thor, Milch, Kerry, Sanon, Moussa

“…This article engages the concept of water literacy, coupled with photo-elicitation methods and long-term ethnographic research, to explore how West African…”
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Who counts, what counts: representation and accountability in water governance in the Upper Comoé sub-basin, Burkina Faso by Roncoli, Carla, Dowd-Uribe, Brian, Orlove, Ben, West, Colin Thor, Sanon, Moussa

“…This article examines the unfolding of integrated water resource management (IWRM) reforms in southwest Burkina Faso, where water resources are subject to…”
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Domestic Transitions, Desiccation, Agricultural Intensification, and Livelihood Diversification among Rural Households on the Central Plateau, Burkina Faso : GLOBAL CHANGE AND ADAPTATION IN LOCAL PLACES by COLIN THOR WEST

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Public and Private Responses to Food Insecurity: Complementarity in Burkina Faso by West, Colin Thor

“…This article explores the contemporary context of food insecurity in Mossi communities of the northern Central Plateau region of Burkina Faso. Drawing on…”
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