• PHD Anthropology and Global Change, The university of Arizona 2009
World Area Of Focus:
• Africa 75%-99% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 25%-49%
Languages:
• French (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Human ecology of global change; societal adaptation to the twin processes of global environmental and social change.
Relevant Experience:
• 2016-2017 PI, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program, Identifying Sustainable Pathways to Climate Change Adaptation in African Drylands • 2015-2017 University Research Council, Explaining Vegetation Trends in Sahelian West Africa: Remote Sensing, Ethnography, and GIS • 2013-2016 PI, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Cooperation and Conflict over Water in Southern Burkina Faso
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Carolina Populations Center Fellow, 2012; Center for Urban and Regional Studies Fellow, 2012; Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association Junior Scholar Award, 2010.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
8
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ANTH 238, Human Ecology of Africa; ANTH 419, Anthropological A pplications of GIS; ENST 567, Ecological Analysis and Application.
Recent Publications:
• 2016 West, C.T., E.K. Nébié, and A. Somé. 2014. Famines are a Thing of the Past: Food Security Trends in Northern Burkina Faso. Human Organization 73(4):340-350.
• 2016 C.T. West and R. Roncoli. forthcoming. "Climate Variability in West Africa: A Case Study in Vulnerability and Adaptation on the Northern Central Plateau, Burkina Faso." In Research in Economic Anthropology. Edited by D. Wood. London: Emerald Publishing.
• 2016 West, C.T. 2015. Public and Private Responses to Food Insecurity: Complementarity in Burkina Faso. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 37(2):52-60.
• 2016 Roncoli, R., B. Dowd-Uribe, B. Orlove, C.T. West, and M. Sanon. forthcoming. Representation and Accountability in Decentralized Water Governance: the case of the Upper Comoé sub-basin, Burkina Faso. Natural Resources Forum.
• 2014 West, C.T. 2013. Documenting Livelihood Trajectories in the Context of Development Interventions in Northern Burkina Faso. Journal of Political Ecology 20(1):342-360.
• 2014 Nicolson, C.R., M.D. Berman, C.T. West, G.P. Kofinas, B. Griffith, D. Russell, and D. Dugan. 2013. Seasonal Climate Variation and Caribou Availability: Modeling Sequential Movement Using Satellite-Relocation Data. Ecology and Society 18(2): 1.
• 2013 West, Colin, “Documenting Livelihood Trajectories in the Context of Development Interventions in Northern Burkina Faso.” Journal of Political Ecology 20(1):342-360.
• 2013 Berman, M.D.; Dugan, D.; Griffith, B.; Kofinas, G.P.; Nicolson, C.R.; Russell, D.; and West, C., “Seasonal Climate Variation and Caribou Availability: Modeling Sequential Movement Using Satellite-Relocation Data.” Ecology and Society 18(2): 1.
• 2010 West, C. T. “Household extension and fragmentation: Investigating the socio-environmental dynamics of Mossi domestic transitions.” Human Ecology 38, No. 3 (2010):363-376.
• 2010 West, Colin, “Household Extension and Fragmentation: Investigating the Socio-environmental Dynamics of Mossi Domestic Transitions.” Human Ecology 38(3);363-376.
• 2009 West, C. T. “Domestic transitions, desiccation, agricultural intensification, and livelihood diversification among rural households on the Central Plateau, Burkina Faso.” American Anthropologist 111, no. 3 (2009): 275-288.
• 2008 West, C. T. and M. Vásquez-León. “Misreading the Arizona landscape: Reframing analyses of environmental degradation in southeastern Arizona.” Human Organization 67, no. 4 (2008): 373-383.
• 2008 West. C. T., C. Roncoli, and F. Ouattara. “Local perceptions and regional climate trends on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso.” Land Degradation and Development 19, no. 3 (2008): 289-304.
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