Kevin Urama is an environmental and ecological economist who develops trans-disciplinary and integrated tools for sustainable management of social, ecological and economic systems. He is Executive Director of the African Technology Policy Studies Network in Kenya. He is also inaugural President of the African Society for Ecological Economics and the African chapter of the International Society of Ecological Economics.
Dr Urama is a fellow at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, in the UK, which studies the social and environmental consequences of rural land uses. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Agricultural Economics and the International Journal of Sustainable Development. Kevin Urama earned a PhD in economics from Cambridge University; he was awarded the 2003 James Claydon Prize for the most outstanding doctoral thesis in economics or related subjects from the university.
Contributed to the following reports
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Options for Decoupling Economic Growth from Water Use and Water Pollution
To head off a looming water crisis, meet demand, and sustain growth and human wellbeing, decoupling water from economic growth is essential. The report shows a package of policy and practical responses to aid aspirations for water sustainability.
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Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth
We are using unsustainable amounts of the Earth’s natural resources. We need to improve the rate of resource productivity (“doing more with less”) faster than the economic growth rate. This is the notion behind “decoupling”.