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Greiner, Clemens ORCID: 0000-0002-6771-373X, Vehrs, Hauke-Peter and Bollig, Michael (2021). Land-use and Land-cover Changes in Pastoral Drylands: Long-term Dynamics, Economic Change, and Shifting Socioecological Frontiers in Baringo, Kenya. Hum. Ecol., 49 (5). S. 565 - 578. NEW YORK: SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS. ISSN 1572-9915

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Abstract

The ongoing fragmentation of pastoral drylands is a matter of concern throughout Africa. Using the example of rangelands in northern Baringo County, Kenya, that were under uniform pastoral use until the late twentieth century, we trace land-use and land-cover changes (LULCCs) since the 1980s. Based on ethnographic, historical, and remote sensing data, we show how bush encroachment and dryland farming have led to the increasing modification and conversion of formerly open rangelands and the diversification of livelihoods. These LULCC dynamics are related to and driven not only by internal processes of socioeconomic change (e.g., sedentarization, changing rangeland management practices, growing markets for small stock, increasing stratification and cultural differentiation) but also by ecological processes such as wildlife defaunation and ecological invasions. Based on our findings, we suggest that a socioecological approach to Kopytoff's notion of the internal African frontier can be helpful in framing these LULCC-related dynamics.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Greiner, Clemens UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-373X UNSPECIFIED Vehrs, Hauke-Peter UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bollig, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-564626
DOI:	10.1007/s10745-021-00263-8
Journal or Publication Title:	Hum. Ecol.
Volume:	49
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 565 - 578
Date:	2021
Publisher:	SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1572-9915
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EAST POKOT; LANDSCAPE; CATTLE; LIVELIHOODS; ADAPTATION; RANGELANDS; GEOGRAPHY; DISTRICT; INVASION; IMPACTS Multiple languages Anthropology; Environmental Studies; Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56462