Lance W Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 84569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lance W Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lance W |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON L W |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Livestock Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5224-8644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unravelling vicious circles of land use competition and food insecurity in agropastoral rangelands
In many regions of the world, the adoption of new livelihood strategies that compete with traditional strategies is one driver of competition over land, resulting in unforeseen impacts on the livelihoods of land users and accelerating land degradation. One example is the Borana Zone in southern Ethiopia, where the expansion of crop cultivation into communal pasturelands undermines traditional livestock‐based livelihoods. The trend of pastureland …
Leveraging deep learning models to increase the representation of nomadic pastoralists in health campaigns and demographic surveillance
Nomadic pastoralists are systematically underrepresented in the planning of health services and frequently missed by health campaigns due to their mobility. Previous studies have developed novel geospatial methods to address these challenges but rely on manual techniques that are too time and resource-intensive to scale on a national or regional level. To address this gap, we developed a computer vision-based approach to automatically locate acti…
Wildfire management and evacuation in indigenous communities in Canada and the United States: A scoping review
Formalization of communal land tenure and expectations for pastoralist livelihoods
Determinants of livestock market participation among pastoral communities of Tana River County, Kenya
The Challenges of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Pastoral Rangelands
Recognizing that community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches have had mixed success in pastoral rangelands, this paper compares five case studies—two from Kenya, two from Ethiopia and one from Tunisia—to identify aspects of social-ecological context that affect the implementation and success of CBNRM in pastoral settings. Data for each case was collected following a common protocol. Among the characteristics that emerged from o…
An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems
Pastoralism faces diverse challenges, that include, among others, land tenure insecurity, that has necessitated the need to formalize land rights. Some governments have started regularizing rights for privately owned land, but this is complex to implement in pastoral areas where resources are used and managed collectively. Our aim was to assess how the scale of communal land tenure recognition in pastoralist systems may affect tradeoffs among obj…
Maasai pastoralists kill lions in retaliation for depredation of livestock by lions
The borders of national parks in Kenya are hotspots for human–wildlife conflict. The deliberate killing of lions by Maasai pastoralists is illegal, but continues despite mitigation attempts. Currently, there is a somewhat pervasive opinion, within the human–wildlife conflict literature, that lions are killed by Maasai people either as cultural ceremony or indiscriminately in response to the loss of livestock. We reconsider the indiscriminate repu…
Open property and complex mosaics: Variants in tenure regimes across pastoralist social-ecological systems
While it has repeatedly been observed that pastoralist resource governance systems tend not to conform to the assumptions and principles of mainstream scholarship on property rights and governance of commons, coherent theoretical reasons why this is the case are less common. One exception is the concept of open property regimes . This view holds that the quintessential features of dryland pastoralist systems—limited and highly variable rainfall, …
Institutional linkages and landscape governance systems: The case of Mt. Marsabit, Kenya
The desire to overcome fragmented management of the natural ecosystems on which human beings depend has contributed to a growing interest in landscape approaches and to deeper questions about landscape governance systems. We assessed the emergent governance system that corresponds to the Mt. Marsabit landscape ecosystem in northern Kenya, applying a framework that includes 17 different indicators. We found that in this governance system, the most…
Development Process Resilience and Sustainable Development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or tra…
We Want Our Children to Grow Up to See These Animals: Values and Protected Areas Governance in Canada, Ghana and Tanzania
Multi-level participation for building adaptive capacity: Formal agency-community interactions in northern Kenya
Applying Resilience Thinking to Questions of Policy for Pastoralist Systems: Lessons from the Gabra of Northern Kenya
A Complex-Systems Approach to Pastoral Commons
Multi-level participation for building adaptive capacity: Formal agency-community interactions in northern Kenya
Open property and complex mosaics: Variants in tenure regimes across pastoralist social-ecological systems
While it has repeatedly been observed that pastoralist resource governance systems tend not to conform to the assumptions and principles of mainstream scholarship on property rights and governance of commons, coherent theoretical reasons why this is the case are less common. One exception is the concept of open property regimes . This view holds that the quintessential features of dryland pastoralist systems—limited and highly variable rainfall, …
Applying Resilience Thinking to Questions of Policy for Pastoralist Systems: Lessons from the Gabra of Northern Kenya
A Complex-Systems Approach to Pastoral Commons
Development Process Resilience and Sustainable Development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or tra…
We Want Our Children to Grow Up to See These Animals: Values and Protected Areas Governance in Canada, Ghana and Tanzania
The Challenges of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Pastoral Rangelands
Recognizing that community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches have had mixed success in pastoral rangelands, this paper compares five case studies—two from Kenya, two from Ethiopia and one from Tunisia—to identify aspects of social-ecological context that affect the implementation and success of CBNRM in pastoral settings. Data for each case was collected following a common protocol. Among the characteristics that emerged from o…
An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems
Pastoralism faces diverse challenges, that include, among others, land tenure insecurity, that has necessitated the need to formalize land rights. Some governments have started regularizing rights for privately owned land, but this is complex to implement in pastoral areas where resources are used and managed collectively. Our aim was to assess how the scale of communal land tenure recognition in pastoralist systems may affect tradeoffs among obj…
Institutional linkages and landscape governance systems: The case of Mt. Marsabit, Kenya
The desire to overcome fragmented management of the natural ecosystems on which human beings depend has contributed to a growing interest in landscape approaches and to deeper questions about landscape governance systems. We assessed the emergent governance system that corresponds to the Mt. Marsabit landscape ecosystem in northern Kenya, applying a framework that includes 17 different indicators. We found that in this governance system, the most…
A Complex-Systems Approach to Pastoral Commons
Applying Resilience Thinking to Questions of Policy for Pastoralist Systems: Lessons from the Gabra of Northern Kenya
Multi-level participation for building adaptive capacity: Formal agency-community interactions in northern Kenya
We Want Our Children to Grow Up to See These Animals: Values and Protected Areas Governance in Canada, Ghana and Tanzania
Development Process Resilience and Sustainable Development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or tra…
Institutional linkages and landscape governance systems: The case of Mt. Marsabit, Kenya
The desire to overcome fragmented management of the natural ecosystems on which human beings depend has contributed to a growing interest in landscape approaches and to deeper questions about landscape governance systems. We assessed the emergent governance system that corresponds to the Mt. Marsabit landscape ecosystem in northern Kenya, applying a framework that includes 17 different indicators. We found that in this governance system, the most…
Maasai pastoralists kill lions in retaliation for depredation of livestock by lions
The borders of national parks in Kenya are hotspots for human–wildlife conflict. The deliberate killing of lions by Maasai pastoralists is illegal, but continues despite mitigation attempts. Currently, there is a somewhat pervasive opinion, within the human–wildlife conflict literature, that lions are killed by Maasai people either as cultural ceremony or indiscriminately in response to the loss of livestock. We reconsider the indiscriminate repu…
Open property and complex mosaics: Variants in tenure regimes across pastoralist social-ecological systems
While it has repeatedly been observed that pastoralist resource governance systems tend not to conform to the assumptions and principles of mainstream scholarship on property rights and governance of commons, coherent theoretical reasons why this is the case are less common. One exception is the concept of open property regimes . This view holds that the quintessential features of dryland pastoralist systems—limited and highly variable rainfall, …
An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems
Pastoralism faces diverse challenges, that include, among others, land tenure insecurity, that has necessitated the need to formalize land rights. Some governments have started regularizing rights for privately owned land, but this is complex to implement in pastoral areas where resources are used and managed collectively. Our aim was to assess how the scale of communal land tenure recognition in pastoralist systems may affect tradeoffs among obj…
Determinants of livestock market participation among pastoral communities of Tana River County, Kenya
The Challenges of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Pastoral Rangelands
Recognizing that community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches have had mixed success in pastoral rangelands, this paper compares five case studies—two from Kenya, two from Ethiopia and one from Tunisia—to identify aspects of social-ecological context that affect the implementation and success of CBNRM in pastoral settings. Data for each case was collected following a common protocol. Among the characteristics that emerged from o…
Formalization of communal land tenure and expectations for pastoralist livelihoods
Wildfire management and evacuation in indigenous communities in Canada and the United States: A scoping review
Leveraging deep learning models to increase the representation of nomadic pastoralists in health campaigns and demographic surveillance
Nomadic pastoralists are systematically underrepresented in the planning of health services and frequently missed by health campaigns due to their mobility. Previous studies have developed novel geospatial methods to address these challenges but rely on manual techniques that are too time and resource-intensive to scale on a national or regional level. To address this gap, we developed a computer vision-based approach to automatically locate acti…
Unravelling vicious circles of land use competition and food insecurity in agropastoral rangelands
In many regions of the world, the adoption of new livelihood strategies that compete with traditional strategies is one driver of competition over land, resulting in unforeseen impacts on the livelihoods of land users and accelerating land degradation. One example is the Borana Zone in southern Ethiopia, where the expansion of crop cultivation into communal pasturelands undermines traditional livestock‐based livelihoods. The trend of pastureland …
Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Pastoralism (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Animal Diversity and Health Studies (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Ecology (6 works)