An article that Elizabeth King and I co-authored has been published in Ecology & Society! Entitled Kenyan Pastoralist Societies in Transition, it talks about the role that perceptions of scarcity play in people's decisions about how to use natural resources (pdf here). Not surprisingly, when people don't perceive a resource as scarce, they're less likely … Continue reading Perceptions and Conservation
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Map of the Sahel
This map is very disorienting. I’ve been looking at it, on and off, for the last 9 months, and it's all the more relevant since the French military intervened in Mali and terrorists attacked a gas plant in Algeria last week. It takes a while to focus on the map without mentally zooming in on … Continue reading Map of the Sahel
Eva Kaye-Zwiebel, PhD 