The Human Ecology of World Systems in East Africa: The Impact of the Ivory Trade
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Summary, in English
The impact on human ecology of the ivory trade entailed direct and indirect effects. First, the reduction or extermination of elephant populations had direct effects on the vegetation patterns over large areas. Second, the economic activities connected with hunting, transport, and trading affected regional systems of exchange and thereby, indirectly through the political economy, settlements, patterns of resource utilization, population parameters, and specialization of production. Ethnohistorical information from the 1800s suggests how coastal goods interacted with regional systems of exchange and environmental exploitation. Although such information cannot be directly projected onto the more distant past, it can be used to establish some possible pathways through which the hunting of elephants and transportation and
trade of ivory could have affected the ecology of human resource use.
trade of ivory could have affected the ecology of human resource use.
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Publishing year
2004
Language
English
Pages
561-591
Publication/Series
Human Ecology
Volume
32
Issue
5
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Document type
Journal article review
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Social and Economic Geography
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0300-7839