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Caroline King-Okumu

Caroline King-Okumu was a senior researcher (dryland ecosystems and economic assessment), in the Climate Change research group until February 2018

Full biography

Caroline King-Okumu is an expert in the integrated management of water and land in dryland ecosystems. She works on environmental assessment processes and researches the costs of groundwater degradation, as well as sustainable land management and methods of helping decision-makers to think ahead in a changing climate.

Expertise

Integrated management of water and land in dryland ecosystems, environmental assessment (ecological and economic), processes and costs of groundwater degradation, sustainable land management and supporting efforts by decision-makers to think ahead under a changing climate

Before IIED

Senior scientist at ICARDA, project and program roles with the UNU and UNCCD and independent consultant on pilot testing an indicator system for Ensuring Impacts from the GEF/SLM.

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Languages: English, English, French, Arabic and Japanese (basic). Now learning Amharic and Swahili

Caroline King-Okumu's blog posts

Resource scouts such as Abdelkader, pictured in the Ewaso Ng'iro river bed, Isiolo County, gauge how best to use dry-season grazing areas (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

The economics of local adaptation in the dryland ecosystems of Isiolo County

Blog, Apr 2015
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50 years linking local to global

Find out more about IIED’s plans in our 50th birthday year: our achievements and what comes next…

IIED's mission is to build a fairer, more sustainable world, using evidence, action and influence in partnership with others. We link local priorities and global challenges, and our 2019-2024 strategy details how we will Make Change Happen

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