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Dr. Lance W. Robinson

 * Vancouver Island University, Canada

Lance Robinson is a post-doctoral fellow on the Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction project at Vancouver Island University's Institute for Coastal Resources 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. Prior to undertaking PhD studies at the University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute, 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.

Selected Publications Robinson, Lance W. and Anthony M. Fuller. 2010. Towards an ecosystem approach to policy process: insights from the sustainable livelihoods and ecosystem health approaches. International Journal of Sustainable Development, v. 13(4): 393-411.

Robinson, Lance W., A. John Sinclair, and Harry Spaling. 2010. Traditional pastoralist decision-making processes: Lessons for reforms to water resources management in Kenya. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, v. 53(7): 847-862.

Robinson, Lance W. and Fikret Berkes. 2010. Applying Resilience Thinking to Questions of Policy for Pastoralist Systems: Lessons from the Gabra of Northern Kenya. Human Ecology, v. 38: 335-350.

Robinson, Lance W. 2009. A Complex Systems Approach to Pastoral Commons. Human Ecology, v. 37: 441-451.

Robinson, Lance W. 2002. Participatory Rural Appraisal: A Brief Introduction. Group Facilitation, v. 4(1): 29-36.

Contact Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Institute for Coastal Research Vancouver Island University 900 Fifth St. Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5 Canada Email: Lance (at) roboroz.ca

Associated Analytical Problems: Adaptiveness, Architecture