After independence, and in accordance with global environmental policies, the government
of Namibia partly transferred the responsibility for managing wildlife and water to local …

Over the last thirty years, community conservancies have become widespread in several
African countries exemplifying new patterns of land and resource governance strategies …

The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an'Arid Eden'in recent
literature, as one of Africa's most sought after exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first …

Pastoral mobility is seen as the most effective strategy to make use of constantly shifting
resources. However, mobile pastoralism as a highly-valued strategy to manage grazing …

Previous research in high-income countries suggests that children from families with lower
socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have shorter telomere length–a biomarker of stress and …

Pastoral livelihoods are evolving rapidly. The emergence of globalized markets and the
integration of globalized production in developing countries have forced many pastoralists …

Customary commons are today considered as a key management regime for human well-
being, the conservation of the environment and global sustainability. Holistic ethnography of …

Pastoral livelihoods are presented with new challenges as access to land is altered by
climate change and privatization. Pastoralist livelihoods however continue to be reliant on …

Landscape approaches can be subjected to mistakenly targeting a single “best” level of
governance, and paying too little attention to the role that cross-scale and cross-level …

Community-based Conservation seeks to strike a balance between nature conservation and
economic growth by establishing spatial and institutional settings that maintain and even …