Food security, energy security, water security, FEW security Nexus, quantitative and spatial analysis, sustainable development goals

Nkiaka, Elias, Okpara, Uche ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024 and Okumah, Murat (2021) Food-energy-water security in sub-Saharan Africa: Quantitative and spatial assessments using an indicator-based approach. Environmental Development, 40:100655. ISSN 2211-4645 (Print), 2211-4645 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2021.100655)

adaptive behaviours, climate variability, lake depletion, livelihoods, small Lake Chad

Okpara, Uche T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Stringer, Lindsay C. and Dougill, Andrew J. (2016) Lake drying and livelihood dynamics in Lake Chad: unravelling the mechanisms, contexts and responses. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 45 (7). pp. 781-795. ISSN 0044-7447 (Print), 1654-7209 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0805-6)

climate crisis; food insecurity; differential vulnerability; environmental degradation; rural livelihoods; ordered logistic models; SDGs; Niger Delta

Onyenekwe, Chinasa S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2625-1775, Okpara, Uche ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Opata, Patience I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6829-6125, Egyir, Irene S. and Sarpong, Daniel B. (2022) The triple challenge: food security and vulnerabilities of fishing and farming households in situations characterized by increasing conflict, climate shock, and environmental degradation. Land, 11 (11):1982. pp. 1-20. ISSN 2073-445X (doi:10.3390/land11111982)

climate-conflict, vulnerability, resilience, discourse analysis, fragility, land, Africa, climate security

Okpara, U.T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Stringer, L.C and Dougill, A.J (2016) Perspectives on contextual vulnerability in discourses of climate conflict. Earth System Dynamics, 7 (1). pp. 89-102. ISSN 2190-4979 (Print), 2190-4987 (Online) (doi:10.5194/esd-7-89-2016)

community food security; gender-based violence; food system workers; rights to food; food systems sustainability; social degradation; human rights abuse; food value chains; food citizens

Okpara, Uche ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024 and Anugwa, Ifeoma (2022) Harms to community food security resulting from gender-based violence. Land, 11 (12):2335. pp. 1-15. ISSN 2073-445X (doi:10.3390/land11122335)

double exposure, climate variability, water conflict, vulnerability assessment, human security

Okpara, Uche T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Stringer, Lindsay C. and Dougill, Andrew J. (2016) Using a novel climate-water conflict vulnerability index to capture double exposures in Lake Chad. Regional Environmental Change, 17 (2). pp. 351-366. ISSN 1436-3798 (Print), 1436-378X (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1003-6)

gender; food security; resource ownership; nonlinear blinder-Oaxaca decomposition model; urban farming households

Olumba, Chukwudi, Olumba, Cynthia and Okpara, Uche ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024 (2023) Household headship, resource ownership and food security: new evidence from Southeast Nigerian cities. Scientific African, 22:e01974. pp. 1-8. ISSN 2468-2276 (doi:10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01974)

negative social tipping; violent conflict; earth destabilisation; climate crisis; human displacement

Spaiser, Viktoria, Juhola, Sirkku, Constantino, Sara M., Guo, Weisi, Watson, Tabitha, Sillmann, Jana, Craparo, Alessandro, Basel, Ashleigh, Bruun, John T., Krishnamurthy, Krishna, Scheffran, Jürgen, Pinho, Patricia, Okpara, Uche T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Donges, Jonathan F., Bhowmik, Avit, Yasseri, Taha, de Campos, Ricardo Safra, Cumming, Graeme S., Chenet, Hugues, Krampe, Florian, Abrams, Jesse F., Dyke, James G., Rynders, Stefanie, Aksenov, Yevgeny and Spears, Bryan M. (2024) Negative social tipping dynamics resulting from and reinforcing Earth system destabilization. Earth System Dynamics, 15 (5). pp. 1179-1206. ISSN 2190-4979 (Print), 2190-4987 (Online) (doi:10.5194/esd-15-1179-2024)

policy integration, nexus thinking, climate adaptation planning, water governance, conflict, Lake Chad

Okpara, Uche T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Stringer, Lindsay C. and Dougill, Andrew J. (2017) Integrating climate adaptation, water governance and conflict management policies in lake riparian zones: insights from African drylands. Environmental Science and Policy, 79. pp. 36-44. ISSN 1462-9011 (doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.10.002)

socio-ecological systems, land degradation neutrality, SDGs, sustainable land management, natural capital, baselines

Okpara, Uche T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Stringer, Lindsay C., Akhtar-Schuster, Mariam, Metternitcht, Graciela I., Dallimer, Martin and Requier-Desjardins, Mélanie (2018) A social-ecological systems approach is necessary to achieve land degradation neutrality. Environmental Science and Policy, 89. pp. 59-66. ISSN 1462-9011 (doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2018.07.003)

soil degradation, soil improvement, stakeholder engagement, impact assessment, decision-support tools, Europe

Okpara, Uche T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Fleskens, Luuk, Stringer, Lindsay C., Hessel, Rudi, Bachmann, Felicitas, Daliakopoulos, Ioannis, Berglund, Kerstin, Velazquez, Francisco Jose Blanco, Dal Ferro, Nicola, Keizer, Jacob, Kohnova, Silvia, Lemann, Tatenda, Quinn, Claire, Schwilch, Gudrun, Siebielec, Grzegorz, Skaalsveen, Kamilla, Tibbett, Mark and Zoumides, Christos (2019) Helping stakeholders select and apply appraisal tools to mitigate soil threats: researchers’ experiences from across Europe. Journal of Environmental Management, 257:110005. ISSN 0301-4797 (Print), 1095-8630 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.110005)

sustainable land management, gender equality, SDGs, female empowerment, land rights, women

Okpara, Uche T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Stringer, Lindsay C. and Akhtar-Schuster, Mariam (2019) Gender and land degradation neutrality: a cross‐country analysis to support more equitable practices. Land Degradation & Development, 30. pp. 1368-1378. ISSN 1085-3278 (Print), 1099-145X (Online) (doi:10.1002/ldr.3326)

water conflict, water scarcity, environmental change, security, vulnerability, Lake Chad

Okpara, Uche T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024, Stringer, Lindsay C. and Dougill, Andrew J. (2015) Conflicts about water in Lake Chad: are environmental, vulnerability and security issues linked? Progress in Development Studies, 15 (4). pp. 308-325. ISSN 1464-9934 (Print), 1477-027X (Online) (doi:10.1177/1464993415592738)