caa a22 4500 445806532 CHVBK 20180317145158.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9399-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9399-6 Butt Bilal University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut Coping with Uncertainty and Variability: The Influence of Protected Areas on Pastoral Herding Strategies in East Africa [Elektronische Daten] [Bilal Butt] A large number of East African pastoralists reside around protected areas (PAs). Over the last few decades pastoralists have been affected by the loss of grazing lands and increasing climatic variability. Many pastoralists who reside around PAs have resorted to grazing inside PAs to counter environmental variability. However, there is little information on how PAs influence the herding strategies of pastoralists. This case study from southern Kenya employs a spatially and temporally explicit mixed-methods approach to understand and evaluate the herding strategies of pastoralists around a PA. The results find that pastoralists access PAs on a regular basis, regardless of seasonality or herd size. Movement into PAs was partly driven by the loss of grazing land to conservancies. PAs affected pastoral herding by presenting differential opportunity costs to disparate groups. However, households with large herd sizes utilized the most flexible strategies to counter environmental variability and uncertainty. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Pastoralists nationallicence Protected areas nationallicence Cultural ecology nationallicence Drought nationallicence Coping strategies nationallicence Herding strategies nationallicence Kenya nationallicence Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/3(2011-06-01), 289-307 0300-7839 39:3<289 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9399-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9399-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Butt Bilal University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/3(2011-06-01), 289-307 0300-7839 39:3<289 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer