Multi-level, networked participation is a vital component in building social–ecological
resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. This paper outlines the ways …

In this article, we provide a review of research on the existing and abandoned wells in
Marsabit County, Northern Kenya, and associated Indigenous Knowledge concerning water …

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 …

While it has repeatedly been observed that pastoralist resource governance systems tend
not to conform to the assumptions and principles of mainstream scholarship on property …

The region of Southern Ethiopia (Borana) and Northern Kenya (Marsabit) is characterised by
erratic rainfall, limited surface water, aridity, and frequent droughts. An important adaptive …

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 …

We employed qualitative methods to explore how conflict over water collection and use
impacts women, and the role that women play in water management and conflict resolution …

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 …

Legal frameworks for communal land rights in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania are now
gaining momentum. Questions can be raised as to whether, how, and to what extent these …

Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to
building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience …