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Talk at Penn State

I gave a talk at the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University at 12 February 2016 about my research on open property regimes in pastoral systems.

Complex Systems Digital Campus (CS-DC)

Together with Elizabeth Gardiner and Amber Johnson I presented preliminary results of our Comparative study of Pastoral Tenure Systems at the CS-DC'15, the first world e-conference organized by…

Abigail Buffington awarded NSF grant

Abby Buffington, who is working on our EAGER project, has received word that her National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) proposal has been approved for…

Confronting Drought in Africa's Drylands

The World Bank report on resilience in Africa's drylands is available on the web as conference edition or a work in progress for the forthcoming book, Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands:…

Governance of Rangelands

The book Governance of Rangelands: Collective Action for Sustainable Pastoralism, edited by Pedro Herrera Jonathan Davies, and Pablo Manzano Baena is freely available through the IUCN…

Elizabeth Gardiner awarded Borlaugh Fellowship

Elizabeth Gardiner was awarded a Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security ($29,323) to support her dissertation research in Burkina Faso on the impacts of land privatization on food security. The…

Examining social-ecological dynamics in Cameroon

The fieldwork of our MORSL postdoctoral researchers is featured on the website of the Office of international Affairs.

Sarah Laborde, Department of Anthropology, and Sui Phang, Department of…

ASC Spotlight

Pallavi Oruganti, an undergraduate researcher in our DECML lab is profiled on the Arts and Science College website.

Review paper in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Our review paper on models of foot-and-mouth disease was published online first in the journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The lead author is Laura Pomeroy, a postdoctoral researcher in…