Liberia has the most forest cover of any West African country, and these forests have sustained indigenous societies for millennia. Today, Liberia’s forested landscapes face a future that holds both great promise and peril. The sustainability challenges arise at the…
Multi-species ethnography is a valuable qualitative methodology for revealing the mutual, iterative influences of animals, plants and people on one another, as each responds to environmental change. Through these entanglements, we can track how trajectories of adaptation unfold. This study…
This synthesis of trends in livelihood adaptation in a Kenyan pastoralist community focused on two themes, which interact to influence governance of common pool resources: (1) the broader phenomenon of commodity frontiers, and (2) social cohesion within communities. Gabriele Volpato,…