A5087544871- Water resources management and optimization
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Trypanosoma species research and implications
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Healthcare Systems and Public Health
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends
- Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
- Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Environmental Sustainability and Technology
Michigan State University
2011-2020
Michigan United
2020
Indiana University
2018
Indiana University Bloomington
2014-2017
Policy Analysis (United States)
2014-2016
Abstract Beginning in 2002, Kenyan water governance transitioned from a monocentric, top‐down system to one exhibiting traits of polycentricity. In this paper, we investigate the changes made policy following 2002 reform, outcomes produced collection community‐ and catchment‐level user groups Mount Kenya region, conformance these with principles A new framework is used capture complex institutional arrangements interactions existing before after polycentric transformation. Unlike many...
Vogt, J. M., G. B. Epstein, S. K. Mincey, C. Fischer, and P. McCord. 2015. Putting the "E" in SES: unpacking ecology Ostrom social-ecological system framework. Ecology Society 20(1): 55. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07239-200155
Abstract Small‐scale irrigation systems are important for agricultural productivity in dryland agroecosystems, particularly areas where there is significant intra‐ and interannual changes rainfall patterns. Institutional analysis of common‐pool resources has demonstrated the principles that tend to result sustained water governance systems. However, previous work did not fully articulate nested nature institutions how polycentric arrangements can play a role both formation ongoing...
Pulver, S., N. Ulibarri, K. L. Sobocinski, S. M. Alexander, Johnson, P. F. McCord, and J. Dell’Angelo. 2018. Frontiers in socio-environmental research: components, connections, scale, context. Ecology Society 23(3):23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10280-230323
Abstract While it is known that farmers adopt different decision‐making behaviors to cope with stresses, remains challenging capture this diversity in formal model frameworks are used advance theory and inform policy. Guided by cognitive the of bounded rationality, research develops a novel, socio‐hydrological framework can explore how farmer's perception water availability impacts crop choice allocation. The informed rich empirical data set at household level collected during 2013 Kenya's...
Kenyan river basin governance underwent a pioneering reform in the Water Act of 2002, which established new community water-management institutions. This article focuses on water projects Likii Resource Users Association Upper Ewaso Ng'iro River Mount Kenya, and extent to their features are consistent with Ostrom's design principles natural resource management. Although have developed solid institutional structures, pressures such as hydroclimatic change, population growth, inequality...
Land-use changes across distant places are increasingly affected by international agricultural trade, but most of the impacts and feedback remain unknown. The telecoupling framework – an analytical tool for examining socioeconomic environmental interactions over distances can be used to conceptualize trade on land-use change feedbacks borders importing exporting countries spatio-temporal scales land systems. We apply design agent-based model (TeleABM) that represents in telecoupled systems...
Increasing connections and influences from near to far have changed social structures, access natural resources, essential livelihoods of smallholders (i.e., those with incomes generated primarily resources on small rural properties). However, the potential benefits negative impacts these smallholders’ social-ecological effects remain understudied. In this paper, we applied frameworks pericoupling telecoupling (human-nature interactions between adjacent distant systems, respectively)...
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McCord, P., J. Dell'Angelo, D. Gower, K. Caylor, and T. Evans. 2017. Household-level heterogeneity of water resources within common-pool resource systems. Ecology Society 22(1):48. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09156-220148
In dryland environments, characterized by low and frequently variable rainfall, smallholder farmers must take crop water sensitivity into account along with other characteristics like seed availability market price when deciding what to plant. this paper we use the results of surveys conducted among smallholders located near Mount Kenya identify clusters devoting different fractions their land subsistence crops. Additionally, explore tradeoffs between water-insensitive but low-value crops a...
Background Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), also referred to as sleeping sickness, and Animal Trypanosomaisis (AAT), known nagana, are highly prevalent parasitic vector-borne diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. Humans acquire trypanosomiasis following the bite of a tsetse fly infected with protozoa Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) spp. –i.e., T.b. gambiense West Central Africa rhodesiense East Southern Over last decade HAT diagnostic capacity estimate prevalence has improved active case-finding...
Smallholder farmers undertake a number of strategies to cope with climate shocks in community. The sharing resources across households constitutes one coping mechanism when environmental differentially impact households. This paper investigates commodity dynamics among eight communities an environmentally heterogeneous highland-lowland area central Kenya. We use survey data and meteorological test whether sharing, measured at the household level by net inflow commodities, varies regional...
Zhang (2019, https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.v54.4) criticizes several of the assumptions and parameter choices model Kuil et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR021420) claims that, due to an inconsistency in irrigation equation, key findings should be interpreted with much caution. We address each comments show that conclusions remain fully valid.