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Lance Robinson is a post-doctoral fellow on the Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction project at Vancouver Island University's Institute for Coastal Research Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, where he is researching multilevel governance in relation to protected areas and the impact of protected areas governance on poverty. This research is being undertaken in relation to a number of protected area case study sites in Canada, Ghana and Tanzania. His PhD research focused on water resources management among pastoralists in Kenya. Prior to that, he worked for over ten years with various NGOs in Africa, Latin America and Canada. The focus of his work, as both an academic and a practitioner, has been on participatory approaches to community-based resources management and environmental governance. Other research interests include complexity in social-ecological systems, commons, pastoralism, and the role of religion and spirituality in governance and natural resources management.