Climate Change in Kenya

Climate Change in Kenya

Resources and articles

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• Ethnic Groups of Kenya
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External Resources

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Thornton PK, Kruska RL, Henninger N, Kristjanson PM, Reid RS, Atieno F, Odero AN and Ndegwa T 2002. "Mapping poverty and livestock in the developing world," International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
• PACJA, 2009: The Economic Cost of Climate Change in Africa. The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, Nairobi, Kenya, 49 pp.

External Articles

2010s:

• Philip Thornton and Mario Herrero, "The Inter-Linkages Between Rapid Growth in Livestock Production, Climate Change, and the Impacts on Water Resources, Land Use, and Deforestation," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5178, January 1, 2010.
• Shongwe, M.E., G.J. van Oldenborgh, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, B. de Boer, C.A.S. Coelho, and M.K. van Aalst, 2011: Projected changes in mean and extreme precipitation in Africa under global warming. Part II: East Africa. Journal of Climate, 24(14), 3718-3732.
• Richard O. Anyah, Weini Qiu. (2010) Characteristic 20th and 21st century precipitation and temperature patterns and changes over the Greater Horn of Africa. International Journal of Climatology, Volume 32, Issue 3, pages 347–363, 15 March 2012
• Kerry H. Cook and Edward K. Vizy, "Impact of climate change on mid-twenty-first century growing seasons in Africa," Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1324-1.

2000s:

• Oba, G., 2001: The importance of pastoralists’ indigenous coping strategies for planning drought management in the arid zone of Kenya. Nomadic Peoples, 5(1), 89-119.
• Kathleen A Galvin, Philip K Thornton, Randall B Boone, and Jennifer Sunderland, "Climate variability and impacts on east African livestock herders: the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania," African Journal of Range & Forage Science 2004, 21(3): 183–189.
• Eriksen, S.H., K. Brown, and P.M. Kelly, 2005: The dynamics of vulnerability: locating coping strategies in Kenya and Tanzania. Geographical Journal, 171, 287-305.
• Mwangi, M. N.; Desanker, P. V., "Changing Climate, Disrupted Livelihoods: The Case of Vulnerability of Nomadic Maasai Pastoralism to Recurrent Droughts in Kajiado District, Kenya," American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #GC12A-02.
• Awuor, C.B., V.A. Orindi, and A. Adwerah, 2008: Climate change and coastal cities: The case of Mombasa, Kenya. Environment and Urbanization, 20(1), 231-242.
• Kathleen A. Galvin, "Transitions: Pastoralists Living with Change," Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 38: 185-198 (Volume publication date October 2009), DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164442.
• Peter G. Jones, and Philip K. Thornton, "Croppers to livestock keepers: livelihood transitions to 2050 in Africa due to climate change," Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 12, Issue 4, June 2009, Pages 427–437.
• Camberlin, P., V. Moron, R. Okoola, N. Philippon, and W. Gitau, 2009: "Components of rainy seasons’ variability in Equatorial East Africa: onset, cessation, rainfall frequency and intensity." Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 98(3-4), 237-249.

1990s:

• Jim Ellis and Kathleen A. Galvin, "Climate Patterns and Land-Use Practices in the Dry Zones of Africa," BioScience, Vol. 44, No. 5, Global Impact of Land-Cover Change (May, 1994), pp. 340-349.