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Short group bio
We, the ‘Political Ecology Research Group’ at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies of the University of Dodoma, study political ecologies in both rural and urban spaces of Tanzania. In rural areas, we research on underlying processes and structures that influence environmental degradation and resulting policy interventions such as creation of protected areas in arid lands, savanna, miombo woodlands and coastal forests. We also seek to understand discursive and material contexts of the policy interventions and their social consequences. In urban areas, we study spatial and temporal changes in urban landscapes as influenced by various factors such as climate change, rapid urbanisation and gentrification. We are an interdisciplinary group, composed of Augustine Mwakipesile, Bupe Kabigi, Enock Makupa, Happiness Nnko, Joan Tang’are, Kelvin Haule, Wilhelm Kiwango, Teddy Philemon, Ng’winamila Kasongi, Said Khamis and Mathew Bukhi Mabele. We possess expertise in conservation social sciences, land cover/change sciences, urban planning, GIS and remote sensing and conservation biology.
Fun-fact
Did you know that on 8-10 July 2014, our department hosted the first ever international conference on ‘green economy’ in the South in Tanzania? It was a sequence to a series of sister conferences held in Europe and North America, on variegated contexts and effects of the ‘green economy’ agenda (e.g. the Grabbing Green and Nature Inc).
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