This paper presents an overview of the scientific evidence providing insights into long term ecosystem and social dynamics across the northern Tanzania and southern Kenya borderlands. The data sources covered a range from palaeoenvironmental records and archaeological information to remote sensing and social science studies that examined human-environmental interactions and land use land cover changes (LULCC) in the region. This knowledge map of published LULCC research contributes to current debates about the drivers and dynamics of LULCC. The review aims to facilitate both multidisciplinary LULCC research and evidence-based policy analyses to improve familiarity and engagement between LULCC knowledge producers and end-users and to motivate research integration for land management policy formulation. Improving familiarity among researchers and non-academic stakeholders through the collation and synthesis of the scientific literature is among the challenges hindering policy formulation and land management decision-making by various stakeholders along the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands. Knowledge syntheses are necessary; yet, do not fully bridge the gap between knowledge and policy action. Cooperation across the science-policy interface is fundamental for the co-production of research questions by academics, policy makers and diverse stakeholders aimed at supporting land management decision making. For improved co-development and co-benefitting outcomes, the LULCC scientific community needs to mobilise knowledge for a broader audience and to advance co-development of relevant and meaningful LULCC products.

本文介绍了科学证据的概述，提供了对坦桑尼亚北部和肯尼亚南部边界地区的长期生态系统和社会动态的见解。数据来源涵盖了从古环境记录和考古信息到遥感和社会科学研究的各种范围，这些研究检查了该地区的人与环境之间的相互作用以及土地利用的土地覆盖变化（LULCC）。该已发布的LULCC研究的知识图谱有助于当前有关LULCC的驱动因素和动力学的辩论。审查旨在促进多学科的LULCC研究和基于证据的政策分析，以提高LULCC知识生产者和最终用户之间的熟悉度和参与度，并促进研究整合以制定土地管理政策。通过整理和综合科学文献来提高研究人员和非学术利益相关者之间的熟悉度是阻碍肯尼亚-坦桑尼亚边境地区各利益相关者制定政策和进行土地管理决策的挑战之一。知识综合是必要的；但是，不要完全弥合知识与政策行动之间的鸿沟。跨科学政策互动的合作对于学者，政策制定者和旨在支持土地管理决策的各种利益相关者共同制作研究问题至关重要。为了改善共同开发和共同受益的结果，LULCC科学界需要为更广泛的受众动员知识，并促进相关和有意义的LULCC产品的共同开发。