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Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500

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Authors:
  1. Gufu Oba

    1. Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

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  • Considers the history of pastoralist adaptation to environmental disaster in East Africa
  • Combines social memory with archival, written records
  • Traces farming methods through the premodern, colonial and modern periods

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This book explores pastoralist/ farmers' approaches to environmental disaster management in East Africa, charting their responses and adaptations to famine, pandemics, natural disasters, and historical events. Using a dynamic adaptive cycle theoretical framework, it uses social memory to reconstruct an 'event history calendar', thus combining social memory and written historical records to reconstruct the adaptive strategies of pastoralists. It explores the climate history of the southern Ethiopian and northern Kenyan frontier, considering, in particular, the impact of the colonial period and independence thereafter, providing a significant contribution to debates in African environmental history. 

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Managing Resilience in Pastoralism: An Introduction

    • Gufu Oba
    Pages 1-19

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 219-254
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

    Gufu Oba

About the author

Gufu Oba is Professor at the Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) in the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500

  • Authors: Gufu Oba

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48291-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48290-8Published: 24 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48293-9Due: 26 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48291-5Published: 23 February 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History, general, African History, History of Sub-Saharan Africa

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