Joanes O Atela

Biographic Data

ID6316850
NAMEJoanes O Atela
GIVEN NAMESJoanes
FAMILY NAMEO Atela
SIGNATUREATELA J O
AFFILIATIONSEnergy, Environment and Development Network for Africa
ORCID0000-0001-5794-7658
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS88
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Improving health professionals’ capacity to respond to the climate crisis in Africa

    Open AccessDanielly Magalhaes, Danielly de P Magalhães et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction The fragile health systems in Africa worsen climate-related health impacts, making capacity building essential to strengthen adaptation and resilience. The Africa Climate and Health Responders Course was developed to address the urgent need for climate and health education among African health professionals. Organized by the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) in collaboration with ASPHA, Africa CDC, WHO AFRO, P…

  • Stakeholder analysis towards unpacking communities of practice for transdisciplinary research and action in climate change and health in Africa

    Open AccessJoanes O Atela, Emily Bolo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Human Dynamics2024References: 1

    Health and climate drivers and solutions in Africa co-exist within the same social context. Primary healthcare systems are increasingly becoming impacted by climate change. Health and climate change communities still work in isolation in addition to limited multidisciplinary and integrated research on health and climate change to inform programming, and policy and unlock climate finance. Holistic and transdisciplinary approaches that make use of …

  • Enabling modernisation, marginalising alternatives? Kenya's agricultural policy and smallholders

    Open AccessFredrick Ajwang, Sanjeev Arora et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2023

    To address intensifying social and environmental challenges, development policy must learn from inclusions and exclusions of past discourses. We analyse Kenya's post‐colonial agricultural policy discourse. Our analysis reveals a near‐exclusive focus on the promotion of agricultural modernisation based on industrial farm inputs, a bureaucratic state and/or ‘the liberalised market’. It was with this thrust to modernise that smallholders (and other …

  • Urban Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategies against Recurrent Climate Risks in Central Africa

    Open AccessNdonaye Allarané, Vidjinnagni Vinasse Ametooyona Azagoun et al.ARTICLEUrban Science2023Cited by: 2References: 6

    Climate change and its corollaries suggest that urban planning tools and strategies need to integrate adaptation and resilience approaches into urban development. This study aims to inform decision makers and the scientific community of the importance of appropriating data on urban adaptation and resilience strategies in the city of N’Djaména. After sampling 519 city dwellers, oriented questionnaires and focus groups were used to collect socio-de…

  • Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites' role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya

    Open AccessJackson Wachira, Paul Stacey et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Modern African…2023Cited by: 1

    Many large-scale land acquisition studies focus on the role of powerful transnational corporations, foreign and domestic governments. Instead, we shift the focus to the role of local actors, in this case, pastoralists in Samburu County, Kenya. Here, we apply the concept of 'intimate exclusion' and show that pastoralist elites' desire and ability to maximise productive and financial gains from customary land, coupled with their privileged understa…

  • Assessing the effectiveness of orchestrated climate action from five years of summits

    Open AccessSander Chan, Thomas Hale et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022

    Action-oriented summits like the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit and 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, have become a major feature of global climate governance. Their emphasis on cooperative initiatives by a host of non-state and local actors creates high expectations, especially when, according to the IPCC, governments’ policies still set the world on course for a disastrous 2.7 °C warming. While earlier studies have cautioned against undue optim…

  • The future of small farms and small food businesses as actors in regional food security

    Open AccessDionisio Ortiz-Miranda, Olga M Moreno‐pérez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2022Cited by: 2References: 2

    Outcomes of 13 participatory foresight workshops are compared. • Small farms' and businesses' contribution to food security is important in three of the four considered scenarios. • Concerns on small farms and food businesses relate to the broader rural setting. • Weak collective action will hamper the adaptive capacity of small farms

  • Transformations to sustainability

    Open AccessI Scoones, Andy Stirling et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2020Cited by: 70References: 27

  • Community forestry frameworks in sub-Saharan Africa and the impact on sustainable development

    Open AccessLalisa A Duguma, Lalisa Duguma et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2018

    Duguma, L. A., J. Atela, A. Negassa Ayana, D. Alemagi, M. Mpanda, M. Nyago, P. Minang, J. Nzyoka, D. Foundjem-Tita, and C. Ndjebet. 2018. Community forestry frameworks in sub-Saharan Africa and the impact on sustainable development. Ecology and Society 23(4):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10514-230421

  • Exploring the agency of Africa in climate change negotiations

    Open AccessJoanes O Atela, Claire H Quinn et al.ARTICLEInternational Environmental…2016Cited by: 2References: 25

  • Implementing Redd+ at the national level

    Open AccessJoanes O Atela, Claire H Quinn et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2016Cited by: 10References: 11

  • Implementing Redd+ in view of integrated conservation and development projects

    Open AccessJoanes O Atela, Claire H Quinn et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2015Cited by: 1References: 24