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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Elusive Livelihood Resilience written by Ph D Margaret Mwangi and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In, "Elusive Livelihood Resilience: Climate Change, Globalization, and the Shifting Drought-Adaptive Capacity of the Maasai," Dr. Margaret Mwangi engages an integrated approach to explore drought-adaptive capacities of the Maasai's social-ecological systems across the savanna rangelands of Kenya's Maasailand. The book explicates the effects of the persistently changing climate and rapid permeation of diverse elements of socioeconomic and sociopolitical globalization into Maasai's social-ecological systems. Through various dialectic interconnectedness and/or feedbacks, Margaret explicates the geography of the changing drought-disaster/risk of Maasai-pastoralism across Maasailand, and that of Maasai's drought-adaptation: revealing the constant shadows of the four horsemen.Elucidations regarding purely drought-occasioned and ad lib adaptations are provided; salient and paradoxical questions regarding the constantly shifting drought-adaptive capacities of the Maasai underscored; and the pathway of increasing shifts in resilience of Maasai's core social-ecological systems revealed. 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 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 Devastating Drought in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Drought And Development written by Elliot Fratkin and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1991-11-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on one society's responses to famine relief and development efforts, this study in the dynamics of culture change focuses on the Ariaal people of Kenya and their survival of both natural and human-induced disasters in their determination to maintain traditional lifestyles.
Download or read book Livestock Development In Kenya s Maasailand written by Phylo Evangelou and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Subsaharan Africa, traditional pastoral societies are experiencing great change as ecological limitations intensify and national demands for livestock products expand. In light of these pressures, the transition of pastoralists from a principally subsistence way of life to greater involvement in market economies seems inevitable. Focusin
Download or read book Drought Livestock and Livelihoods written by Yacob Aklilu and published by Overseas Development Institute (ODI). This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Conservation and Resilience to Drought written by Peadar Brehony and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 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 Pastoral Economies in Africa and Long term Responses to Drought written by Aberdeen University African Studies Group and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
