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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.010
	Adaptive capacity in Tanzanian Maasailand: Changing strategies to cope with drought in fragmented landscapes
	Goldman M.J.; Riosmena F.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:3
英文摘要	This study examines the ways in which the adaptive capacity of households to climatic events varies within communities and is mediated by institutional and landscape changes. We present qualitative and quantitative data from two Maasai communities differentially exposed to the devastating drought of 2009 in Northern Tanzania. We show how rangeland fragmentation combined with the decoupling of institutions and landscapes are affecting pastoralists' ability to cope with drought. Our data highlight that mobility remains a key coping mechanism for pastoralists to avoid cattle loss during a drought. However, mobility is now happening in new ways that require not only large amounts of money but new forms of knowledge and connections outside of customary reciprocity networks. Those least affected by the drought, in terms of cattle lost, were those with large herds who were able to sell some of their cattle and to pay for private access to pastures outside of Maasai areas. Drawing on an entitlements framework, we argue that the new coping mechanisms are not available to all, could be making some households more vulnerable to climate change, and reduce the adaptive capacity of the overall system as reciprocity networks and customary institutions are weakened. As such, we posit that adaptive capacity to climate change is uneven within and across communities, is scale-dependent, and is intimately tied to institutional and landscape changes. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptive capacity; Africa; Coping mechanisms; Institutions; Maasai; Mobility; Pastoralism
学科领域	adaptive management; cattle; climate change; drought; habitat fragmentation; indigenous population; landscape change; mobility; pastoralism; pasture; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis; rangeland; Tanzania; Bos
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; cattle; climate change; drought; habitat fragmentation; indigenous population; landscape change; mobility; pastoralism; pasture; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis; rangeland; Tanzania; Bos
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117954
作者单位	Department of Geography, Environment and Society Program, Institute for Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Guggenheim 110, 260 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0260, United States; Department of Geography Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1440 15th St., 483 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0483, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Goldman M.J.,Riosmena F.. Adaptive capacity in Tanzanian Maasailand: Changing strategies to cope with drought in fragmented landscapes[J],2013,23(3).
APA	Goldman M.J.,&Riosmena F..(2013).Adaptive capacity in Tanzanian Maasailand: Changing strategies to cope with drought in fragmented landscapes.Global Environmental Change,23(3).
MLA	Goldman M.J.,et al."Adaptive capacity in Tanzanian Maasailand: Changing strategies to cope with drought in fragmented landscapes".Global Environmental Change 23.3(2013).