essay
Ecological bottlenecks and the development of the Kariba Lake Basin
careless technology: ecology and international development • Garden City, N. Y. • Published In 1972 • Pages: 206-235
By: Scudder, Thayer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is concerned with selected cultural ecological relationships and the changes in these resulting from the Kariba Dam project. Scudder focuses on three major topics: 1) the fishing industry, including changes in productivity, aspects of lake ecology and land use, and development schemes concerning these; 2) the ecology of the tsetse fly (its distribution, habitats, and spread) and its effects on the development of cattle raising; 3) cultivation in relation to the water supply, population, erosion, and government efforts to change agricultural practices. He concludes that development projects must be concerned with possible ecological outcomes of and the effects on the subject population. More thorough study of the cultural ecological relationships might lead them to schemes that may be compromises between the ideal outcome for the ecosystem or for the people, but that would be more likely to succeed. The article is amply detailed, though limited in coverage of the effects of the dam.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Geography
- Fauna
- Fishing
- Domesticated animals
- Applied animal science
- Tillage
- Agricultural science
- Land use
- Water supply
- Research and development
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tonga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor Swanson ; John Beierle ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956-1957, 1962-1963, 1965, 1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1948-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake Kariba basin, middle Zambezi river valley: eastern Southern province, Zambia; northern Matabeland North and Mashonaland West provinces, Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thayer Scudder
- Conference on the ecological aspects of international development, Warrenton, Virginia, 1968; Convened by the Conservation Foundation and the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Washington University.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73150890
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonga (Zambezi people)