Creator: Desanker, Paul V. Description: This report describes
the strategy for the Miombo Network Initiative, developed at an
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) intercore-
project workshop in Malawi in December 1995 and further refined
during the Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) Open Science Meeting
in January, 1996 and through consultation and review by the LUCC
Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). The Miombo Network
comprises of an international network of researchers working in
concert on a 'community' research agenda developed to address
the critical global change research questions for the miombo
woodland ecosystems. The network also addresses capacity
building and training needs in the Central, Eastern and Southern
Africa (SAF) region, of the Global Change System for Analysis
Research and Training (START). The research strategy described
here provides the basis for a proposed IGBP Terrestrial Transect
study of land cover and land use changes in the miombo
ecosystems of Central Africa. It