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PAGES WORKING GROUP-AQUATIC TRANSITIONS

PAGES WORKING GROUP-AQUATIC TRANSITIONS

During the Open PAGES Focus 4 Workshop “Towards a more accurate quantification of human-environment interactions in the past” University of Leuven, Belgium 3-7 February 2014. A working group focusing on aquatic ecosystems and their responsiveness to human and climate impact was established. The working group AQUATIC TRANSITIONS will synthesize paleoecological records of change in aquatic systems both regionally […]

Fieldwork at Lakes Baringo and Bogoria, July 2014

Fieldwork at Lakes Baringo and Bogoria, July 2014

The REAL ESRs from Ghent University carried out field work in Lakes Baringo and Bogoria in the Kenyan rift valley in July. Together with Prof. Dirk Verschuren, ESRs Geert van der Plas and Aynalem Degefa and other members of the Limnology Unit at Ghent University (Gijs de Cort and Yoeri Torsi), were involved in the […]

Project Overview – Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL)

Project Overview – Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL)

Project summary The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape and natural-resource distributions have always encouraged people to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. However, the realities of current social and environmental changes are occurring at unprecedented rates and amplitudes. Increasing population growth, changes in patterns of land tenure, industrialization, weak systems of governance, […]

ESR 3: Landscape and environmental change

ESR 3: Landscape and environmental change

Fellow:  Geert van der Plas Supervision:  Dirk Verschuren Host Institution:  Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University Duration:  3 years – beginning December 2013 Project description: “Millennial scale landscape and environmental change in the northern Rift Valley and Mount Kilimanjaro regions” In my project I will reconstruct past interactions of humans with their environment, driven […]

ESR 5: Soil erosion in the Lake Baringo basin, Kenya

Aynalem Degefa The main target of my PhD research at the University of Ghent, Belgium, is to reconstruct and quantify the rates of soil erosion in the Lake Baringo basin, Kenya. The Lake Baringo landscape has been severely affected by land degradation, especially during the past couple of centuries as environmental stresses mounted in relation […]

Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln

Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln

Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands.           […]

Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin

Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin

Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands. The program is […]

Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln

Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln

Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands.           […]

Dirk Verschuren contact info

Dirk Verschuren contact info

Position: Professor, Head of Limnology Unit, Ghent University, Coordinating team in REAL project Address: Ghent University Department of Biology Limnology Research Unit. K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35 L10 9000 Gent Email: dirk.verschuren@UGent.be Website: UGent Limnology Publications: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801000736550

Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin

Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin

Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands.     The […]

Uppsala hosts a kick-off meeting for REAL members

Uppsala hosts a kick-off meeting for REAL members

The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Uppsala hosted a kick-off party from 19-23 November, 2013, giving all the members of the REAL Initial Training Network a chance to meet and discuss their ongoing and upcoming projects.  

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Talk on East African futures

  Rebecca Kariuki (The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania … [Read More...]

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