Participation and Resilience
in Pastoralist Communities

Our interest in participatory processes and pastoralists were combined in this research project.  With financial assistance from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the International Development Research Centre, and in-kind assistance from the International Livestock Research Institute and the Pastoralist Integrated Support Programme, Lance carried out Ph.D. field research in Kenya.

Thesis

• Robinson, Lance W.  2009.  Participatory development and the capacity of Gabra pastoralist communities to influence resilience.  PhD thesis, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Research Snapshots (concise summaries of various aspects of the research)

• Robinson, Lance W.  2010.  A Complex Systems Approach to Pastoral Commons.

• Robinson, Lance W. and Fikret Berkes.  2010.  Applying Resilience Thinking to Questions of Policy for Pastoralist Systems.

• Robinson, Lance W., A. John Sinclair, and Harry Spaling.  2010.  Traditional pastoralist decision-making processes: Lessons for reforms to water resources management in Kenya.

• Robinson, Lance W. and Fikret Berkes.  2011.  Multi-level participation for building adaptive capacity: Formal agency-community interactions in northern Kenya.

Full-Length Papers

• Robinson, Lance W.  2009.  A Complex Systems Approach to Pastoral Commons.  Human Ecology, v. 37: 441-451.

• Robinson, Lance W. and Fikret Berkes.  2010.  Applying Resilience Thinking to Questions of Policy for Pastoralist Systems: Lessons from the Gabra of Northern Kenya.  Human Ecology, v. 38: 335-350.

• Robinson, Lance W., A. John Sinclair, and Harry Spaling.  2010.  Traditional pastoralist decision-making processes: Lessons for reforms to water resources management in Kenya.  Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, v. 53(7): 847-862.

• Robinson, Lance W. and Fikret Berkes.  2011.  Multi-level participation for building adaptive capacity: Formal agency-community interactions in northern Kenya.  Global Environmental Change, v. 21(4): 1185-1194.

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