Resilience in East African Landscapes

REAL project

Environmental change outreach amongst Maasai community members near Amboseli

Knowledge exchanges are important for understanding environmental changes and socio-ecological systems and useful for understanding the interactions amongst mountains and the nearby lowlands.

Prof Rob Marchant discussing past projects, such as REAL project, and new ERC Synergy funded AFRI-CAN that will run for the next 6 years, with a focus on mountain-lowland connections.
A view of the north slopes of Kilimanjaro Tanzania from Amboseli Kenya shows the connection of water from the atmosphere through orographic snow, ice and rains down through the Afromontane forests and the wetlands of Amboseli, fed by channels, surface washes, and groundwater springs.
The changing cloud distributions around and above the mountains illustrate the changing hydroclimatic variability, one of the major factors for influencing the water resources of the vital wetlands and ground water, used by communities and wildlife.

See also

https://amboseliprogram.org/news-amp-comentaries/the-massive-fires-of-kilimanjaro/

Site information

REAL is a Marie Curie Actions InnovativeTraining Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme.

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Coordinating partner

Prof. Paul Lane
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
Uppsala University, and
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

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