Tag Archives: Kenya

Tim Daw on ecosystem services tradeoffs

In the video below Tim Daw, from the University of East Anglia’s School of International Development and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, explains his project Participatory Modelling of Wellbeing Tradeoffs in Coastal Kenya. The project, in which I’m also participating, has … Continue reading

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Livelihood landscapes – disentangling occupational diversity for natural resource management

A special contribution from Josh Cinner, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (see previous posts on his work here and here) and Örjan Bodin from the Stockholm Resilience Centre on their recent paper, Livelihood diversification in … Continue reading

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Roving bandits, piracy, and fishing

Piracy has been in the news a lot over the past few years.  Less noticed is the impact of’ roving bandit fishing fleets from the rich world that outfish local fisherman.  The associated press reports on a perverse consquence of … Continue reading

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Kenyan elephants send text messages to warn of crop raiding

Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir’s screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers’ crops during the harvest, sometimes … Continue reading

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