Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania
East African pastoral adaptation and vulnerability to climate variability and climate change is assessed, using data from decision making processes and ecological data of the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area as an example. The paper uses integrated modeling, linking PHEWS, a household model, t...
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| author | Galvin, K.A. Thornton, Philip K. Boone, Randall B. Sunderland, J. |
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| author_facet | Galvin, K.A. Thornton, Philip K. Boone, Randall B. Sunderland, J. |
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| description | East African pastoral adaptation and vulnerability to climate variability and climate change is assessed, using data from decision making processes and ecological data of the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area as an example. The paper uses integrated modeling, linking PHEWS, a household model, to SAVANNA, an ecosystem model to look at the effects of drought and a series of wet years on the well-being of Maasai pastoralists. Model results suggest that the ecosystem is quite resilient and suggests that the Maasai of the NCA are not very vulnerable to climate variability. However the economic situation in the NCA is precarious and food insecurity is prevalent without drought. The result is that drought has a very negative effect on people. |
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| spelling | CGSpace299852024-11-15T08:52:05Z Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania Galvin, K.A. Thornton, Philip K. Boone, Randall B. Sunderland, J. adaptation climate change climate resource conservation drought herds households livestock models pastoralism ecology East African pastoral adaptation and vulnerability to climate variability and climate change is assessed, using data from decision making processes and ecological data of the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area as an example. The paper uses integrated modeling, linking PHEWS, a household model, to SAVANNA, an ecosystem model to look at the effects of drought and a series of wet years on the well-being of Maasai pastoralists. Model results suggest that the ecosystem is quite resilient and suggests that the Maasai of the NCA are not very vulnerable to climate variability. However the economic situation in the NCA is precarious and food insecurity is prevalent without drought. The result is that drought has a very negative effect on people. 2004-12 2013-06-11T09:25:42Z 2013-06-11T09:25:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/29985 en Open Access National Inquiry Services Center African Journal of Range & Forage Science;21(3): 183-189 |
| spellingShingle | adaptation climate change climate resource conservation drought herds households livestock models pastoralism ecology Galvin, K.A. Thornton, Philip K. Boone, Randall B. Sunderland, J. Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania |
| title | Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania |
| title_full | Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania |
| title_fullStr | Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania |
| title_short | Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania |
| title_sort | climate variability and impacts on east african livestock herders the maasai of ngorongoro conservation area tanzania |
| topic | adaptation climate change climate resource conservation drought herds households livestock models pastoralism ecology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/29985 |
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