H P Vehrs

Biographic Data

ID29720
NAMEH P Vehrs
GIVEN NAMESH P
FAMILY NAMEVehrs
SIGNATUREVEHRS H P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cologne
ORCID0000-0003-4817-6358
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Hunting, Environmental Change, and the Defaunation of Wildlife in Baringo, Kenya (1840–1977)

    H P Vehrs, Hauke-Peter Vehrs et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental History2026

    This article takes a long-term view of the history of Kenya’s wildlife, to consider the gradual defaunation of wildlife that took place over the first half of the twentieth century. In the Baringo lowlands of Kenya’s northern Rift Valley, a district famous for ivory hunting in the nineteenth century and an area with a dense wildlife population, the depletion of Kenya’s wildlife populations was not the result of hunting by locals or increased poac…

  • Conclusion

    H P Vehrs, Léa Lacan et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Southern Africa2024References: 15

    In this special issue we assess different multispecies relations in Southern Africa and bringtogether scholars from various disciplines to contribute to the still emerging field of multispeciesethnography and add our perspectives to the ongoing debate, which we situate in Namibia, SouthAfrica and Zambia. In the following we shortly summarise the key aspects of the contributionsto this special issue and give an outlook on how research about multis…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessLéa Lacan, H P Vehrs et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Southern Africa2024References: 16

    This special issue, “Multispecies Encounters in Conservation Landscapes in Southern Africa,” investigates the changing conditions of multispecies coexistence in conservation contexts that transform entire ecosystems, including wildlife, plants, microbes and humans. With this focus, we draw from the theoretical field of multispecies studies to stimulate and promote scholarly discussion in this field in Southern Africa. Departing from the postulate…

  • Hunting the hippo

    H P VehrsARTICLEAnthropology Southern Africa2024Cited by: 1References: 25

    The Zambezi region in north-eastern Namibia is located at the centre of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), an area that is endowed with a great variety of wildlife and managed not only to protect this asset but also to promote its proliferation and economic utilisation. In this contribution I consider the notion of hunting in Namibia and explore the realms of local hunting and trophy hunting from the turn of the twen…

  • Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia

    Open AccessH P Vehrs, Mirijam ZickelARTICLEHuman Ecology2023

    The Zambezi Region of Namibia is known for its vast conservation landscape, which is part of the world’s largest transboundary conservation area – the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA). Less known are the settlement histories of the communities displaced from their villages during the planning and implementation of this conservation landscape. We reconstruct the settlement history of two families that lived on two island…

  • Pokot Pastoralism

    H P Vehrs, Hauke-Peter Vehrs et al.BOOKPokot Pastoralism2022

  • The Paka Community

    H P Vehrs, Hauke-Peter VehrsCHAPTERPokot Pastoralism2022

  • The Power of Dissonance

    Open AccessH P Vehrs, Hauke-Peter Vehrs et al.ARTICLEConservation and Society2022

    Environmental conservation is presented as a success story in Namibia's Zambezi Region where conservation measures have led to an enormous increase in many wildlife populations. Complementary to historically exclusive fortress-conservation strategies, inclusive projects have gained prominence in the past few decades aiming to integrate local populations into conservation projects. Perhaps the most salient approach is community-based natural resou…

  • The Assemblage

    Open AccessLéa Lacan, Paula Alexiou et al.ARTICLESociologus2022References: 39

    This article examines the concept of “assemblage” in anthropological research on multispecies relations. The contribution begins by situating “the multispecies assemblage” within the theoretical legacy of Deleuze and Guattari. Then, it delves into three case studies of multispecies research in southern Africa, first to highlight their use of the assemblage as an analytical framework, and second to discuss methodological implications. Overall, we …

  • Land-use and Land-cover Changes in Pastoral Drylands

    Open AccessC Greiner, H P Vehrs et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2021Cited by: 2References: 72

    The ongoing fragmentation of pastoral drylands is a matter of concern throughout Africa. Using the example of rangelands in northern Baringo County, Kenya, that were under uniform pastoral use until the late twentieth century, we trace land-use and land-cover changes (LULCCs) since the 1980s. Based on ethnographic, historical, and remote sensing data, we show how bush encroachment and dryland farming have led to the increasing modification and co…

  • The making of a conservation landscape

    Open AccessMichael Bollig, H P Vehrs et al.ARTICLEAfrica2021Cited by: 10References: 20

    The Kwando Basin of north-eastern Namibia is firmly embedded in current national and international conservation agendas. It is a key part of the world's largest transboundary conservation area, the Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area, and the home of seven community-based conservation areas (conservancies) and three smaller national parks (Mudumu, Nkasa Rupara and Bwabwata). While conservation agendas often start from the assum…

  • Fauna, Fire, and Farming

    Open AccessH P Vehrs, Gereon Romanus Heller et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2017

  • Changes in landscape vegetation, forage plant composition and herding structure in the pastoralist livelihoods of East Pokot, Kenya

    H P Vehrs, Hauke-Peter VehrsARTICLEJournal of Eastern African Studies2016Cited by: 13References: 23

    Oral evidence from pastoral Pokot on vegetation changes in the rangelands of northern Baringo District points to major changes in structure and biodiversity composition over the past century. A landscape of perennial grasses has turned into an Acacia-dominated bush-land. Pelil (Acacia nubica), talamogh (Acacia mellifera), or anyua (Acacia reficiens), which characterise the pastoral landscape today, have increased rapidly since the 1950s. This art…