Case Studies

Click on the layers button on the top left. You are then able to toggle different layers. The layers to toggle with are explained below:

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Disarmament Case Studies: When activated you are able to click on a state and read about its history with disarmament. 

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Anthromes: Toggle to be able to explore the terrestrial atmosphere of South Sudan. These are explanations of the terms used (all definitions from Ecotope):

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• Urban: Urban regions are home to the densest human populations on the planet. All of the major cities in the world fall into this anthrome class.

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• Villages: Village anthromes are where rural populations are densest, agriculture is most intensive, and landscapes include towns and even small cities.

  • Rainfed villages: Agricultural regions sustained by annual rainfall.  Higher than typical precipitation and temperature amongst other villages, the rainfed village experiences slightly higher net primary production within a region that supports little livestock and a significant population density.

  • Pastoral villages: Cropped and Pastoral Villages are an anthrome that has almost every land use type possible within it.  As its name implies it has both a significant amount of agricultural cropland and pasture for grazing livestock, it even contains a significant amount of bare earth.  Tree cover is sparse and rice cultivation is minimal in most of this anthrome. 

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• Croplands: Croplands include most of the cultivated lands of the world, and also about a quarter of global tree cover.  

  • Residential rainfed croplands: A mixture of cropland, forest, human settlements, pasture, and limited urban area, Residential Rainfed Mosaic Croplands is the most extensive of the more densely populated anthromes.  With a median annual precipitation near 1000mm there is sufficient water to support all aspects of life without hardly any irrigation.

  • Populated croplands: The Populated Irrigated Cropland anthrome has a minor human population and expansive agricultural lands.  Variations in climate require much of this anthrome to be irrigated in order to support the agricultural use of this land. 

  • Remote croplands: The Remote Cropland anthrome is almost entirely agriculture with no significant human population, few exceptions. 

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• Rangelands: The broad anthropogenic biome group of Rangelands consists of three rangeland anthromes, each are used primarily for livestock grazing and vary based on human population density

  • Residential rangelands: The Residential Rangelands anthrome has two key features; its population density is never below 10 persons/km and a substantial portion of its area is used for pasture.  No other land use or land cover is as dominant as pasture in rangelands.  Bare earth is significant in this anthrome the median being nearly 1/3 of the land for every one square kilometer area. 

  • Populated rangelands: Populated Rangeland is an anthrome that generally has fewer than 10 persons/km2 and nearly one quarter of all the pastured land on the planet.  There is little other land use and net primary production is low, in fact nearly half of the entire populated rangelands anthrome is represented by bare earth.  

  • Remote rangelands: The Remote Rangeland anthrome is essentially wild with little sign of human activity.  Remote rangelands are vast wide open pastures occupied by free roaming livestock as well as wild animals in a mosaic of grassland and barren landscape.

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• Woodlands (also referred to as forested): Forested anthromes are of course dominated by tree cover but include human populations and some land use for crops and pasture.

  • Residential woodlands: Residential Forest anthromes are characterized  by a high median precipitation, higher human population, and tree cover.  The climate varies greatly from forest to forest as there are populated forests on every ice free continent, but the population density is usually more than 3 persons/km².  

  • Populated woodlands: Populated Forest anthromes are characterized  by a high median precipitation, minimal human population, and extensive tree cover.  The climate varies greatly from forest to forest as there are populated forests on every ice free continent, but the population density is usually less than 3 persons/km².  

  • Remote woodlands: The Remote Forests anthrome is little more than dense tree cover.  The land in some of this anthrome has severe clear cutting though the vast majority of remote forests are untouched.  These forests include the boreal forests of the far north and tropical rainforests.

  • Wild woodlands: Wild Forests are notably characterized by vast tree cover and a total lack of any civilization and human interaction.  The land in these regions rarely used in any way and there are no permanent dwellings.  

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• Inhabited treeless and barren lands: The Barren anthrome represents the most extreme environments on our planets.  Annual precipitation in most of the barren anthrome regions is very low resulting in an uninhabitable environment as is reflected in both the population (low) and the the land use (non-existant).

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States: The color code for the states is based on the three historic former provinces and contemporary regions of South Sudan: Bahr el Ghazal (northwest), Equatoria (southern), and Greater Upper Nile (northeast). Currently there are 32 states in South Sudan further divided into 180 counties.

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Counties: Points to the different counties in each state. Counties in South Sudan are then divided into payams and payams are divided into bomas. 

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