Understanding the role of local management in vegetation recovery around pastoral settlements in northern Kenya

Environmental Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 838-849

  Roba, Hassan G ^a   Oba, Gufu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Desertification; Environmental Management Committees; Northern Kenya; Pastoral sedentarization; Vegetation regeneration

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES; NORTHERN KENYA; PASTORAL SEDENTARIZATION; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION REGENERATION;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; REFORESTATION; RURAL AREAS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

VEGETATION;

ACTION PLAN; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; LOCAL PLANNING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; PASTORALISM; REGENERATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERTIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; KENYA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RURAL AREA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODY PLANT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; KENYA; PLANTS;

MANAGEMENT; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS; REFORESTATION;

KENYA;

EID: 84877876843     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0020-1     Document Type: Article

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