Grace Wambui Ngaruiya
NationalityKenya
OccupationConservation ecologist
EmployerKenyatta University

Grace Wambui Ngaruiya is a conservation ecologist from Kenya, whose work links climate change to loss of Africa's cultural heritage.

Career

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As a conservation ecologist, Ngaruiya is known for ...

Since 2010, Ngaruiya has been a lecturer on plant biology at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya.[1] She also leads the Ecology and Conservation Biology section of the university.[1]

Ngaruiya is a lead author for the Africa chapter of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.[1]

Ngaruiya completed her Doctor of Philosophy in geography at the University of Hamburg in 2014, focusing on climate change adaptation and conflict geography.[2]

As an EDGE fellow in 2008 and as research for her master's thesis, Ngaruiya surveyed the population of golden-rumped elephant shrews in the Boni National Reserve and Dodori National Reserve along the northern coast of Kenya.[3] As part of this work, she discovered a new species of elephant shrew.[4]

Personal life

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Ngaruiya is from Ngong, Kenya. She holds a bachelor's degree in zoology and a master's degree in conservation biology from the University of Nairobi.[3]

Selected publications

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  • Ngaruiya, G. W. and Scheffran, J. "Actors and networks in resource conflict resolution under climate change in rural Kenya," Earth System Dynamics, 7, 2016, 441–452, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-441-2016.
  • Ngaruiya, Grace W. "Reweaving stakeholder networks: Promoting climate mitigation and Maasai culture using medicinal plants in Kenya," Ecosystem Services, 15, 2015, 103-112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.05.010.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Grace W. Ngaruiya". The Conversation. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  2. ^ "Dr. Grace Ngaruiya : CLISEC : Universität Hamburg". www.clisec.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  3. ^ a b "Grace Ngaruiya". EDGE of Existence. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  4. ^ "Dr. Grace Ngaruiya : CLISEC : Universität Hamburg". www.clisec.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2022-06-16.



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