Deconstructing a pastoralists' network to evaluate climate adaptation in the sector : a case study of Narok, Kenya
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2016-11
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Pathways to resilience in semi-arid economies
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This study seeks to deconstruct the pastoralist network of Narok County in Kenya to clearly identify the role of each actor and document inherent challenges in relation to adaptation knowledge transmission. To accomplish this, we use the Ecosystem Service Governance (ESG) approach, which primarily uses mathematical indices based on social network theory to analyse Narok’s pastoral resource governance. In particular, we chose centralisation and structural hole indices to reveal major network actors and missing links that are hindering information flows across the network. To strengthen the analytical aspect of this approach, additional secondary data such as monetary value may be included. Social network analysis (SNA) revealed eight key actors responsible for linking most of the actors in Narok.
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This work was carried out under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), with financial support from the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the International Development Research Centre
(IDRC), Canada.
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PASTORALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, ADAPTATION, KENYA