13 November 2019
The ARCC Project has a new paper published in the Anthropocene – “an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal answering questions about the nature, scale and extent of interactions between people and Earth processes and systems”. The new paper explores the role of academic scientific research in supporting dialogues on land use and land cover change management decisions and policy formulation. Knowledge, societal rules and values form the context that decisions are made, yet there is still scope for knowledge syntheses and new research to better link with stakeholders for consideration across the region of northern Tanzania and southern Kenya.
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Capitani C, Boles O, Kariuki R, Newman R, Munishi L, Marchant R, Lane P. 2019. Integrating evidence of land use and land cover change for land management policy formulation along the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands. Anthropocene 28, 100228. *ARCC project members in bold and collaborators in regular font.
Scientific research as a component of the “Knowledge Pillar” used in public policy decision making for land management. Societal Rules and Values are key interacting components in decision making.
Current state of research (knowledge producer) and land use land cover change policy interactions. Identifying some of the knowledge-practice gaps apparent along the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands
The ARCC ‘Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change‘ Project is supported by the Sustainability and resilience – Tackling climate and environmental change research programme, funded by the Swedish Research Council VR/Sida/Formas (grant number 2016-06355). The project is lead by Paul Lane at Uppsala University/University of Cambridge and involves Anneli Ekblom (Uppsala University), Linus Munishi (Nelson Mendela African Institute of Science and Technology, Arusha), and Rob Marchant (York). Rebecca Kariuki (NM-AIST) and Anna Shoemaker (Uppsala University) are researchers spearheading new projects in archaeology and participatory stakeholder events in western Serengeti, Tanzania, and Amboseli, Kenya.