Kathleen Galvin

Biographic Data

ID282034
NAMEKathleen Galvin
GIVEN NAMESKathleen
FAMILY NAMEGalvin
SIGNATUREGALVIN K
AFFILIATIONSColorado State University
ORCID0000-0002-9003-8365
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS276
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX9

  • Climate Change, Sustainable Development Goal 13, and Adaptive Pathways in the Kenyan Drylands Using Social Media

    Open AccessKathleen Galvin, Zoey Walder-Hoge et al.ARTICLEHumans2026

    This study examines social media communication in Kenya to assess how dryland pastoral concerns are represented in national climate policy dialogues. Approximately 80% of Kenya’s land area consists of drylands that support pastoral livelihoods, yet recurring droughts and increasingly variable rainfall threaten these social-ecological systems. Although Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action) emphasizes adaptation, progress is typically me…

  • ‘Unspecialization’ as Way-Finder for the ‘Togetherness of Things’: A Dialogue Eighteen Years Later

    Open AccessClaire LeBeau, Kathleen Galvin et al.ARTICLEPhenomenology & Practice2026

    This article offers a retrospective, dialogic reflection on The Creativity of ‘Unspecialization’ (Galvin & Todres, 2007), originally published in the inaugural volume of Phenomenology & Practice. Revisiting this work eighteen years later, Les Todres and Kathleen Galvin, in dialogue with Claire LeBeau, explore how the notion of ‘unspecialization’ has continued to unfold as a way of being, knowing, and scholarly practice far beyond its initial arti…

  • Towards Caring Technologies in Older Adult Care Through the Co-Creation of an Ethical Process Guide

    Open AccessElisabeth Honinx, Cato Van Schyndel et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    As populations age, the gap between care needs and available support systems is widening, leading to critical vulnerabilities in staffing, infrastructure, and funding. The need for accessible, human-centred, and ethically grounded care technologies is growing. However, the development of digital health tools often lacks inclusivity and practical guidance. Existing ethical frameworks tend to remain abstract, which limits their real-world applicati…

  • The Sturdy Third Wheel’: Application of Lifeworld Fractions in a Descriptive Phenomenological Work

    Open AccessAbraham Sahilemichael Kebede, Lise-Lotte Ozolins et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2026

    This paper illustrates the ontological, epistemological, and subsequent methodological translations of a descriptive phenomenological study exploring dignity within the digital world among community-dwelling older adults. It demonstrates how the lifeworld phenomenological research, particularly the Sheffield School’s use of lifeworld fractions, influenced by the Duquesne tradition can serve as an attunement for guiding data collection, reflection…

  • Hospitals

    Open AccessKathleen Galvin, Kathleen T GalvinOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2025References: 4

    This entry focuses on the history, development, and structure of hospitals in modern society. It provides insight into hospital outcomes research as well as medical sociology in the study of hospitals. Drawing on classic sociological texts and hospital‐based ethnographic research, it highlights the contributions of hospitals to sociological theory and considers the human dimensions of hospital life in relation to the meaning and spatiality of hos…

  • Multi-hazard risk in socially vulnerable communities across the United States

    Open AccessLeslie Sanchez, Paul R Armsworth et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Society’s most vulnerable communities bear the burdens of a multitude of environmental shocks and stressors, which are increasingly likely to occur simultaneously or in quick succession. However, our understanding of where environmental risks accumulate across the United States and how determinants of multi-hazard risk vary within the country remains incomplete. This study offers a more comprehensive understanding of the national scope and underl…

  • Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model

    Open AccessRekha Warrier, Randall B Boone et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024

    Pastoral communities living in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya raise livestock herds within highly patchy environments, and experience chronic food insecurity and inter-ethnic conflicts linked to resource access. For these primarily rural communities, livestock are a source of calories and income and are therefore crucial to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) associated with food security (SDG 2). Achieving s…

  • Drought frequency, conservancies, and pastoral household well-being

    Open AccessRandall B Boone, Randall Boone et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024

    Portions of group ranches of northern Kenya communally held by pastoralists have been removed from grazing to support wildlife and encourage tourism and the resources that follow. These community-based conservancies (CBCs) were designed to benefit CBC members through regular payments, potential for wages, improved security, etc. We used a coupled-systems simulation approach to quantify potential changes in livestock numbers and pastoral well-bein…

  • Food security among dryland pastoralists and agropastoralists: The climate, land-use change, and population dynamics nexus

    Open AccessIlan Stavi, Joana Roque De Pinho et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2022Cited by: 6References: 103

    During the last decades, pastoralist, and agropastoralist populations of the world's drylands have become exceedingly vulnerable to regional and global changes. Specifically, exacerbated stressors imposed on these populations have adversely affected their food security status, causing humanitarian emergencies and catastrophes. Of these stressors, climate variability and change, land-use and management practices, and dynamics of human demography a…

  • Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature

    Open AccessE S Brondizio, Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐thoma et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Environment and…2021

    The knowledge, values, and practices of Indigenous peoples and local communities offer ways to understand and better address social-environmental problems. The article reviews the state of the literature on this topic by focusing on six pathways by which Indigenous peoples and local communities engage with management of and relationships to nature. These are ( a) undertaking territorial management practices and customary governance, ( b) contribu…

  • SDG Indicator 11.3.1 and Secondary Cities: An Analysis and Assessment

    Open AccessMelinda Laituri, Danielle Davis et al.ARTICLEISPRS International Journal of…2021

    Secondary cities are rapidly growing areas in low- and middle-income countries that lack data, planning, and essential services for sustainable development. Their rapid, informal growth patterns mean secondary cities are often data-poor and under-resourced, impacting the ability of governments to target development efforts, respond to emergencies, and design sustainable futures. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 focuses on…

  • Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism

    Open AccessPablo Manzano, Daniel Burgas et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • This Adds Another Perspective’: Qualitative Descriptive Study Evaluating Simulation-Based Training for Health Care Assistants, to Enhance the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

    Open AccessCatherine Aicken, Lisa Hodgson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Much of the UK's ageing population lives in care homes, often with complex care needs including dementia. Optimal care requires strong clinical leadership, but opportunities for staff development in these settings are limited. Training using simulation can enable experiential learning in situ. In two nursing homes, Health Care Assistants (HCAs) received training in clinical communication skills (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation Educ…

  • Six modes of co-production for sustainability

    Open AccessJosephine M Chambers, Carina Wyborn et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 42References: 29

  • Transformational adaptation in drylands

    Open AccessKathleen GalvinARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2021Cited by: 4References: 22

    Global drylands comprise over 40% of the earth’s land surface, support millions of pastoralists and account for half of the world’s livestock. Climate change and socio-economic drivers are rapidly altering dryland social-ecological systems, with the potential to increase vulnerability. This article describes forces of change in drylands and the social changes observed in pastoralist dryland systems, with a focus on Africa. The observed changes po…

  • Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations

    Open AccessJosephine M Chambers, Carina Wyborn et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 51References: 18

    Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as an eme…

  • The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: Rethinking What It Means to Be an Academic Leader

    Open AccessJill Caviglia-Harris, Jill L Caviglia‐Harris et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021

    Caviglia-Harris, J., K. E. Hodges, B. Helmuth, E. M. Bennett, K. Galvin, M. Krebs, K. Lips, M. Lowman, L. A. Schulte, and E. A. G. Schuur. 2021. The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader. Ecology and Society 26(3):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12396-260309

  • Working with Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in large‐scale ecological assessments: Reviewing the experience of the Ipbes Global Assessment

    Open AccessPamela Mcelwee, Álvaro Fernández‐llamazare et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Ecology2020

    There have been calls for greater inclusion of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in applied ecosystems research and ecological assessments. The Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment (GA) is the first global scale assessment to systematically engage with ILK and issues of concern to Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC). In this paper, we review and reflect on how th…

  • Adults with intellectual disabilities’ lived experiences of wellbeing and the internet: A descriptive phenomenological study

    Gillian Hebblewhite, Nick Hutchinson et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2020References: 4

    While internet use continues to increase amongst the general population, in comparison, adults with intellectual disabilities are still less likely to access the Internet and benefit from the opportunities it can offer. Non-intellectual disability perspectives and assumptions, which often view the Internet as a risk for those with intellectual disabilities, are considered over the everyday lived online and well-being experiences of adults with in…

  • Examining social equity in community-based conservation programs: A case study of controlled hunting programs in Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

    Open AccessBethlehem A Abebe, Kelly W Jones et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2020Cited by: 5References: 7

  • A cultural consensus of fire and futility: Harvesting beetle-kill for wood-based bioenergy in Wyoming and Colorado

    Open AccessDanielle Jensen-Ryan, Rachael Budowle et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2019References: 11

  • Beyond transport: Understanding the Role of Mobilities in Connecting Rural Elders in Civic Society

    Open AccessGraham Parkhurst, Kathleen Galvin et al.CHAPTERCountryside Connections2018

  • Wood-based bioenergy in western Montana: The Importance of Understanding Path Dependence and Local Context for Resilience

    Open AccessTyler A Beeton, Kathleen A Galvin et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017

    Beeton, T. A., and K. A. Galvin. 2017. Wood-based bioenergy in western Montana: the importance of understanding path dependence and local context for resilience. Ecology and Society 22(2):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09157-220209

  • Co-design of transformative research for rangeland sustainability

    Open AccessKathleen Galvin, Robin S Reid et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2016Cited by: 1References: 14

  • Nutritional Status of Maasai Pastoralists under Change

    Open AccessKathleen A Galvin, Kathleen Galvin et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2015Cited by: 10References: 46

    This study assesses the nutritional status of Maasai pastoralists living in a period of great social, economic and ecological changes in Kajiado County, southern Kenya. Data on weight, height, skinfolds, and circumferences were collected from 534 individuals in the year 2000. The data were used to describe mean differences in human nutrition between ages, sexes, and within and among three Group Ranches. Nutritional data and diet recall data were …