Local Histories of Climate Change in the Horn of Africa

While a handful of dedicated naturalists and environmental activists in Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya have reported on the impacts of environmental change at ground level, the results have neither been assembled and systematically compared across the Horn of Africa, nor incorporated into global discussions of mitigation strategies. Cassanelli will organize a series of virtual workshops that will put local African experts in dialogue with natural and social scientists from Penn to raise awareness and establish a collective research agenda to promote joint research projects that integrate indigenous knowledge with regional and international expertise.