Fellowship: Rocca Dissertation
Fellowship Year: 2025
Project Title/Theme: Climate of confusion: challenges and opportunities in mitigation-adaptation duality in Kenya
Abstract: As climate change impacts intensify, the relationship between land degradation and decarbonization efforts has continued to be of critical interest to scholars and policy makers. In studying the interaction between land degradation and climate change, most studies have focused on land as a source and sink of greenhouse gases. Critical climate adaptation and political ecology scholars have challenged this focus. Instead, they have argued for anchoring the foundation of adaptation research and practice on questions probing how climate change has become a site where struggles over values and resources are governed (Eriksen et. al., 2015; Borras et al., 2022; Nightingale, 2017). Using Vihiga in western Kenya as a case study, my dissertation examines how a tree planting initiative conceived and implemented as a mitigation project to support adaptation outcomes materializes in local contexts.
Fellowship: Rocca Pre-Dissertation
Fellowship Year: 2023
Project Title/Theme: Beyond the Limits of Climate Smart Agriculture Frameworks in Kenya
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PhD Student
Department:
Environmental Science, Policy and Management
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