He earned his doctorate in International Development from the University of Oxford. His recent publications include “On the Politics and the Possibilities of Participatory Mapping and GIS: Using Spatial Technologies to Study Common Property and Land Use Change among Pastoralists in Central Tibet,” in Cultural Geographies (forthcoming) and “Common Property and Power: Insights from a Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Pasture Boundaries among Pastoralists in Central Tibet,” Journal of Political Ecology (2006). His research concerns livestock- and rangeland-dependent populations in the Himalaya and Central Asia, particularly the impacts of development policies and interventions on the adaptations of pastoralists to their marginal environments. Kenneth has co-authored an article in Issue 4.