Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands

L Piemontese, S Terzi, G Di Baldassarre… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Extreme droughts are affecting millions of livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, causing
water shortages, famines, migration and fatalities. The construction of new small water …

Changes to water management and declining pastoral resilience in Marsabit County, northern Kenya: The example of Gabra wells

FN M'Mbogori, MG Kinyua, AG Ibrae… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Archaeology as sustainability science: Perspectives from ancient island societies

MJ LeFebvre, JM Erlandson, SM Fitzpatrick - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Humans and the diverse ecosystems we inhabit face numerous sustainability challenges
due to climate change, rising seas, population growth, overfishing, natural habitat …

Confronting the present: archaeology in 2019

MS Rosenzweig - American Anthropologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Postmodernity has a distinctly pre‐apocalyptic feel to it, and this feeling has seeped into
archaeology. A review of the scholarship from 2019 attests that archaeologists are having to …

The influence of ancient herders on soil development at Luxmanda, Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania

MJ Storozum, ST Goldstein, DA Contreras, AO Gidna… - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
In eastern Africa, ecologists have found that when mobile pastoralists abandon their
temporary encampments, the accumulation of burned animal dung, wood, and other organic …

Buffering new risks? Environmental, social and economic changes in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period

E Hildebrand, KM Grillo, KL Chritz, ML Fischer… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper evaluates risk-oriented frameworks for explaining environmental, social, and
economic changes faced by fishing and herding communities in the Turkana Basin during …

Water insecurity, water borrowing and psychosocial stress among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya

LB Ford, HJ Bethancourt, ZS Swanson… - Water …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article quantifies Daasanach water insecurity experiences in northern Kenya, examines
how water insecurity is associated with water borrowing and psychosocial stress, and …

Pastoral diversities: multiple perspectives on the archaeology of desert pastoral societies–notes from the Negev

SA Rosen - Quaternary International, 2024 - Elsevier
Taking a long-term perspective of desert pastoralism as an adaptation to changing social
and environmental circumstances, a brief history of the phenomenon based primarily on …

Holocene desertification, traditional ecological knowledge, and human resilience in the eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia

AM Rosen, L Janz, B Dashzeveg… - The Holocene, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Dryland regions are particularly challenging for human survival over the course of deep
time. This is true for institutionally complex communities as well as small-scale societies that …

E-commerce and foreign direct investment: pioneering a new era of trade strategies

Y He - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024 - nature.com
This study explores the dynamic interplay between foreign direct investment, e-commerce,
and China's export growth from 2005 to 2022 against the backdrop of the rapidly evolving …