AUTHOR=Roe Emery 
  
TITLE=Rethinking pastoralists’ development from their perspective of disasters-averted
  
JOURNAL=Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice
  
VOLUME=Volume 16 - 2026
  
YEAR=2026
  
URL=https://www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/pastoralism-research-policy-and-practice/articles/10.3389/past.2026.15551
  
DOI=10.3389/past.2026.15551
  
ISSN=2041-7136
  
ABSTRACT=By identifying the specific disasters and crises pastoralists successfully avert on the ground and in real time, we move beyond a reductive or otherwise partial view of their real-time activities. While the chronic challenges of inequality, marketisation, precarity, marginalisation, and the climate emergency are well-documented, they represent an incomplete and, as such, misleading picture. I argue that the implications of these avoided disasters are critical to local development yet remain largely overlooked in current pastoralist policy, management, and their critiques.