A5045997677- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- American Environmental and Regional History
- History of Science and Medicine
- African history and culture studies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
University of Colorado Boulder
2011-2023
University of Colorado System
2013-2023
Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2021
University of Glasgow
2016
International Livestock Research Institute
2007
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2003
To understand the broader epistemological and ontological politics of human dimensions climate change, this review adopts a political ecology approach, informed by Science Technology Studies concepts research on multiple ontologies. We are particularly interested in assessing critical approaches to change knowledge as related adaptation policies. The addresses three specific areas where more engagement could help move debates about forward fruitful ways: first, discourse focus language used...
Abstract Community Based Conservation (CBC) has become the catch–all solution to social and ecological problems plaguing traditional top–down, protectionist conservation approaches. CBC been particularly popular throughout Africa as a way gain local support for wildlife measures that have previously excluded people their development needs. This article shows that, despite rhetoric of devolution participation associated with new models, planning in Tanzania remains top–down endeavour,...
We developed a “continual engagement” model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers with the goal of promoting more effective action balance poverty alleviation wildlife conservation in 4 pastoral ecosystems East Africa. The involved creation core boundary-spanning team, including community facilitators, facilitator, transdisciplinary researchers, responsible for linking wide range actors local global scales. Collaborative researcher−facilitator teams...
ABSTRACT Despite a decade of rhetoric on community conservation, current trends in Tanzania reflect disturbing process reconsolidation state control over wildlife resources and increased rent‐seeking behaviour, combined with dispossession communities. Whereas the 1998 Wildlife Policy promoted participation local benefits, subsequent policy 2007 Conservation Act 2009 returned income from sport hunting safari tourism to central government. These trends, which sometimes include use violence...
Despite dramatic transformations in conservation rhetoric regarding local people, indigenous rights, and communityoriented approaches, many places Tanzania today continues to infringe on human rights.This happens through the exclusion of people as knowledgeable active participants management, policy formation, decision-making processes land that 'belongs' them which their livelihoods depend.In this paper, I focus a relatively new area designed Conservation Trust Model-Manyara Ranch Monduli...
Conservation corridors are perhaps the most visible expression of new landscape conservation boom. Seen as essential connecting structure across increasingly fragmented landscapes, offer a structural solution to complex problem maintaining functional ecological connectivity. Yet ability connect landscapes and wildlife populations functionally remains unknown. Why then so popular in academic, practitioner, policy circles? To explore this question I utilize two concepts—boundary objects...
Abstract Populations of the African lion Panthera leo are declining dramatically, with species’ survival in some areas closely linked to levels tolerance by rural communities. In Tanzania and Kenya several remaining populations outside protected reside adjacent communities, where they hunted. As many these communities Maasai, research conservation efforts have focused on understanding curbing Maasai hunting practices. Much this work has been informed a dichotomous explanatory model as either...
Research and conservation efforts often occur in areas outside of national parks where people live, side-by-side sometimes conflict with large carnivores. In Tanzania Kenya much this work employs a human–wildlife perspective is based Maasai areas, many the few remaining lions exist. We argue that while do come into lions, their relationship cats far more complex includes positive dimensions. With quantitative qualitative data, including narratives, we illustrate nuanced ways which relate...
There has been increased focus within the human dimensions of climate change on understanding complex and multiple ways ‘knowing’ climate. While these discussions are important in recognising different knowing processes already underway, we argue that this epistemological approach is limited challenging. It begins with an assumption there one world (climate) out can just be known differently, knowledge isolated from being acting world. This often results a distilling practices into...
In this paper I argue for building dialogues between scientific and Maasai knowledge articulations, utilizing of wildebeest as an example. By locating knowledges regarding a particular subject (wildebeest) in relation to each other—in discourse practice—my intention is create the space their active engagement. strive (1) expose situatedness, strengths, weaknesses both knowledge, (2) illustrate conditions within which collaborative can be constructed situated or spaces embodied by...
Formal rights to land are often promoted as an essential part of empowering women, particularly in the Global South. We look at two grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working on and empowerment with Maasai communities Northern Tanzania. Women involved both NGOS attest power ownership for personal transformations gender relations. Yet very few have obtained titles. Drawing from Ribot Peluso's theory access, we argue that more than land, access – knowledge, social relations...
Abstract In the search for successful community-based conservation models there has been a substantial focus on payment ecosystem services. Such payments are measurable inputs that often associated with success. A closer look suggests more complex, historically and culturally contingent picture. We argue services as defining factor success in community risks overlooking other, significant processes. particular, we importance of (1) tenure livelihood security (2) relations trust,...
Rapidly evolving drone technologies are taking the conservation sector by storm. Although technical and applied literature tends to frame drones as autonomous, neutral technologies, we argue that neither nor their implications can be adequately understood unless they grounded, conceptually methodologically, in context of broader societal structures shape how data produce used. This article introduces value a political ecology framework an interdisciplinary audience biophysical social...
Unks, R., M. J. Goldman, F. Mialhe, and Roque de Pinho. 2021. "People should also look after the people": relational values of wildlife collectively titled land in Ilkisongo Maasai group ranches Southern Kenya. Ecology Society 26(3):28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12539-260328
Abstract Around the world, Indigenous peoples have stories about wildlife that reflect knowledge and feelings animals their relationship to humans. Different people's experiences speak variety of interactions people with in spaces where humans non-human live interact. These are often told by women, reflecting ways which gender mediates human–environment relations. Yet gendered differences experience rarely addressed conservation research action. Even community-based efforts ignore or...
In East Africa, pastoralist systems are undergoing rapid transformation due to land enclosures, benefit distributions associated with new uses, shifting social relations, and changing authority governance structures. We apply a critical analysis of the institutions that mediate access benefits across complex mosaic property relations within Ilkisongo Maasai in southern Kenya. Our elucidates how global national influences have interacted dynamics socio-cultural norms rules regarding create...
Participatory methods for conservation and development have been critiqued on practical, political, theoretical grounds. In this article, we address these critiques but move beyond critique to propose ways improve participatory techniques with local communities. We discuss a customary model of communication used by Maasai communities in Tanzania Kenya (the enkiguena, meeting) as starting point begin thinking about participation the ground potentially others. value enkiguena ideals build...