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Item Open Access Pathways of continuity and change: diversification, intensification and mobility in Maasailand, Kenya(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) BurnSilver, Shauna B., author; Galvin, Kathleen A., advisorIn recent decades multiple drivers have been acting on Maasai pastoralists in the Greater Amboseli Ecosystem (GAE). The Kenyan government and international policymakers have made a systematic effort to modernize the Kenyan pastoral sector based on prescriptions of livestock intensification and a process of land tenure change that moves herders from communal land use to privatized land ownership. Additional drivers including population growth, competition for territory, greater engagement in the Kenyan economy, and frequent drought, are also pushing and pulling pastoralists to adjust their livelihood strategies. These drivers have created an atmosphere of unprecedented change in Maasailand, Kenya -- a situation with negative implications for pastoral well-being and resilience. How pastoral households cope with these challenges is the central question of this PhD study. Three key responses are identified and analyzed: economic diversification, livestock intensification and livestock mobility.