Download or read book Coping with Drought in Kenya Maasailand written by David J. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coping with Drought in Kenya Maasailand written by David J. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coping with Drought in Kenya written by Thomas E. Downing and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drought Management in Kenya written by Agnes Musyoki and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decoupled Social Ecological Systems Eroded Sustainability in Africa written by Margaret Mwangi, and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Decoupled Social-Ecological Systems: Eroded Sustainability in Africa, Drought Vulnerability of Kenya's Maasai," Dr. Margaret Mwangi explores drought impacts and responses in coupled social-ecological systems across Africa. The book highlights the three extant schools of thought vis-à-vis understanding and managing the phenomenon called drought. Drought vulnerability of the Maasai is revealed as primarily occasioned by persistent decoupling of their strongly coupled social-ecological livelihood production systems. Drought vulnerability and erosion of sustainability of Maasai-pastoralism, and indeed similar livelihoods, is contextual, variable, and linkable to that decoupling: current drought event serves to unveil existing, even constructed, vulnerabilities. Maasais have had to constantly negotiate the ever-evolving cross-scale social, political, and economic terrains: which negotiation influences the way these pastoralists experience drought. Unless there is a change in policies and practices, with focus on adaptive interventions, there is a risk in Maasai's livelihoods in the future of shifts in climate and/or socioeconomic landscapes. Thus it should be clear: the adoption of integrated management of drought, simultaneously as multidimensional phenomenon and as a hazard-risk--as understood from the detailed third school of thought vis-à-vis understanding and managing drought--, avails plausible informed cross-scale participatory and adaptive interventions. Integrated efforts toward multidimensional drought-hazard/risk interventions are more apt to enhance drought-resilience, and plausibly disrupt the generation of drought-disasters.

Download or read book Response to Drought in Maasailand written by David J. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decoupled Social Ecological Systems written by Margaret Mwangi, PH D and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Decoupled Social-Ecological Systems: Eroded Sustainability in Africa, Drought Vulnerability of Kenya's Maasai," Dr. Margaret Mwangi explores drought impacts and responses in strongly coupled social-ecological systems across Africa. The book highlights the three extant schools of thought vis-à-vis understanding and managing the phenomenon called drought. Drought vulnerability of the Maasai is revealed as primarily occasioned by persistent decoupling of their strongly coupled social-ecological livelihood production systems. The explication presented in this book reveals drought vulnerability and erosion of sustainability of Maasai-pastoralism, and indeed similar strongly social-ecological systems across Africa, is contextual, variable, and linkable to that decoupling: current drought event serves to unveil existing, even constructed, vulnerabilities. Apropos this last point, Maasais have had to constantly negotiate the ever-evolving cross-scale social, political, and economic terrains: which negotiation influences the way these pastoralists experience drought. Thus it should be clear: unless there is a change in policies and practices, with focus on adaptive interventions, there is a risk in Maasai's livelihoods in the future of shifts in climate and/or socioeconomic landscapes. The adoption of integrated management of drought, simultaneously as multidimensional phenomenon and as a hazard-risk-as understood from the detailed third school of thought vis-à-vis understanding and managing drought-, as recommended in this book, avails plausible informed cross-scale participatory and adaptive interventions. Suffice that, integrated efforts toward multidimensional drought-hazard/risk interventions are more apt to enhance drought-resilience, and plausibly disrupt the generation of drought-disasters.

Download or read book Coping with Drought written by Elijah K. Biamah and published by . This book was released on 2005* with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Response to Drought in Kenya Maasailand written by David J. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya written by Elliot M. Fratkin and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the social life, cultural ecology and current situation of Ariaal pastoralists of northern Kenya, showing how these people have survived vicissitudes of drought and political conflict as they wrest a living off their animals in the arid deserts and mountains of northern Kenya.

Download or read book De coupled Social Ecological Systems written by Margaret Mwangi, PH D and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "(De)coupled Social-Ecological Systems: Eroded Sustainability in Africa, Created Vulnerability of Kenya's Maasai," Dr. Margaret Mwangi explores drought impacts and responses in coupled social-ecological systems across Africa, with a strong focus on Kenya's Maasailand. The book highlights the three extant schools of thought vis-à-vis understanding and managing drought. The book presents a detailed explication on contextual, variable, and persistent (de)coupling of Maasai's strongly coupled social-ecological livelihood production systems-and similar systems across Africa-vis-à-vis occasioning vulnerability and erosion of sustainability of the same. Apropos this last point, the role of drought is elucidated. Plausible interventions toward disrupting generation of drought-disasters in the predominantly strongly coupled social-ecological systems in Kenya's Maasailand, and indeed across Africa, are presented. The study makes an important contribution to interdisciplinary and development studies, and will be of particular interest to scholars and practitioners across disciplines. The book is organized in seven chapters.

Download or read book Being Maasai written by Thomas Spear and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania. But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people have “become” something else. And what it means to be Maasai has changed radically over the past several centuries and is still changing today. This collection by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists examines how Maasai identity has been created, evoked, contested, and transformed from the time of their earliest settlement in Kenya to the present, as well as raising questions about the nature of ethnicity generally.

Download or read book Resources Management and Local Institutions in Rural Kenya written by Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter and published by . This book was released on 1989* with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maasai Herding written by Solomon Bekure and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Water Series III Volume 3 written by Terje Tvedt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major changes in policy and management , across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and other agricultural products. This new volume in the successful History of Water Series focuses on the African continent to address this key issue. Humanity has its roots in Africa and many of our food systems developed there. All types of agricultural production are present and the sheer size of the continent offers wide ecological variation from extreme desert to dense rainforest. Drawing together leading international contributors from a wide variety of disciplines Water and Food offers new insights into the evolution of food systems, from early hunter gatherers to the global challenges of the modern world.

Download or read book Environmental Change and African Societies written by Julia Tischler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.

Download or read book Planning African Development written by Glen Norcliffe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, this book concerns specifically the Kenyan experience with regards to development planning but, given that the problems of hunger poverty and underdevelopment manifest themselves in slightly different forms across all African countries, this book has considerable relevance to development planning across the African continent.The first set of essays in this collection address the question of development which is undoubtedly Africa’s highest development priority. The second grouping of essays considers issues in project planning and asks questions concerning cost, method, outcome and evaluation of various projects in Kenya