TY - BOOK

T1 - Human (in)security at the livestock-crop-wildlife nexus

T2 - The case of Laikipia County, Kenya

AU - Bond, Jennifer Lauren

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - Conflicts in relation to natural resources occur throughout the world in a range of contexts, both rural and urban, and across a spectrum of non-violent conflict of interest to violence. These conflicts may be between specific user groups such as agriculturalists and pastoralists or humans and wildlife, or they may be in relation to the management or policy of a articular resource which creates an unequal distribution of benefits. This thesis takes its point of departure in a case study of natural resource conflict in Laikipia, Kenya, where various natural resource conflicts are occurring including agro-pastoral conflicts, cattle rustling and human-wildlife conflicts. The five articles of the thesis address the research questions through a human security lens drawing on quantitative and qualitative data. Analysis showed that there were several factors related to insecurity, weak governance, natural resource management and cultural practices which cut across each of the gropastoral, cattle rustling and human-wildlife conflicts focussed on in this study. Further analysis built on these cross-cutting issues to identify the hidden impacts of these interrelated forms of insecurity on people which burden their livelihoods, wellbeing and ultimately their degree of human security.

AB - Conflicts in relation to natural resources occur throughout the world in a range of contexts, both rural and urban, and across a spectrum of non-violent conflict of interest to violence. These conflicts may be between specific user groups such as agriculturalists and pastoralists or humans and wildlife, or they may be in relation to the management or policy of a articular resource which creates an unequal distribution of benefits. This thesis takes its point of departure in a case study of natural resource conflict in Laikipia, Kenya, where various natural resource conflicts are occurring including agro-pastoral conflicts, cattle rustling and human-wildlife conflicts. The five articles of the thesis address the research questions through a human security lens drawing on quantitative and qualitative data. Analysis showed that there were several factors related to insecurity, weak governance, natural resource management and cultural practices which cut across each of the gropastoral, cattle rustling and human-wildlife conflicts focussed on in this study. Further analysis built on these cross-cutting issues to identify the hidden impacts of these interrelated forms of insecurity on people which burden their livelihoods, wellbeing and ultimately their degree of human security.

UR - https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/fbp0ps/alma99122841864205763

M3 - Ph.D. thesis

BT - Human (in)security at the livestock-crop-wildlife nexus

PB - Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen

ER -