Peter Waweru Wangai

I am a self-motivated researcher and professional trainer on environmental knowledge and skills. I practice integrity and discipline in the line of service to my institution of work, while at the same time embracing teamwork for the quick realization of the research and organizational objectives. I strongly embrace the concept of sustainability and integrate sustainability principles at every available opportunity.

• English
• Deutsch
• Kiswahili

Kikuyu

• Biodiversity and ecosystem services mapping
• Socio-ecological systems analysis e.g. rural-urban interfaces
• Sustainability science
• Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation
• Integrated Natural Resources Management
• Environmental and Natural Resources Economics & Valuation
• Project management
• Trade, Environment & Community Development
• Community Asset Building & Social Entrepreneurship
• Research & Scientific writing
• Environmental Philosophy

• Executed satisfactory and participative services to learners
• Mentored learners in report and thesis writing
• Counseled multi-cultural and multi-religious groups of learners
• Linked learners to organizations for internship skills
• Secured advanced study & research positions for learners in-country & abroad
• Promoted co-creativity among learners
• Cultivated spirit of professional and academic excellence among learners
• Coached learners during field trips & excursions
• Offered constructive assessment to learners on practicum & internship

• Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI), 06/22-30/2023, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa & Panama City, Panama
• European Conference on African Studies, 05/30-06/02/2023, University of Koln, Germany
• Annual Nairobi Summer School on Climate Justice, 06/27-07/09/2022, Kenyatta University, Kenya
• Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI2022), 06/20-24/2022, Pretoria, South Africa
• Conference for the Association of African Studies e.V (VAD2022), 05/07-10/2022, Freiburg, Germany
• UN Environment Assembly, 2019, Sustainable Consumption and Production
• UN Environment Assembly, 2017, Towards a pollution-free planet
• Actors in Sustainable Development Goals, 03/2017, Bonn Germany
• Terrorism and religious radicalization, 06/2016, Lingen Germany
• I and we-, we and others: Identity in the globalized world, 04/2016, Bonn Germany
• Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference, 11/2015, Stellenbosch South Africa
• Summer School for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 09/2015, Peyresq France
• The role of professional in bringing change, 08/2015, Tamale Ghana
• KAAD Water Group workshop, 05/2015, Karlsruhe University Germany
• International Workshop on coastal ecosystem service and Land-Sea interface, 03/2015, Kiel Germany
• KAAD Education Commission, 05/2014, Germany
• KAAD Annual Academic Day, 04/2014, Germany
• Role of Professionals in national development, 08/2012, Uganda
• Remote sensing for natural resource management, 05/2009, Italy

• Scientific Journal reviewer, Ecological Indicators, City & Environment Interactions, African Journal of Ecology, to date
• Voluntary advisor to Master students, Department of Ecosystem Management, Kiel University, 2014-2017

• Land and Investments Sustainability Science Cluster, Future Earth Africa Hub Leadership Centre (FEAHLC), East Africa regional technical member, 01/2024, Present
• Collaborative Research Centre (CRC228) 'Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation', German Research Council (DFG), Team member for the 'Future Conservation' (A04), 06/2022, 2025
• Pan-African network for the arts in environmentally sustainable development, Institute of Development Studies (IDS-UK), Co-Principal Investigator, 02/2022, 2023
• Building Urban Community Networks for Sustainable Cities in Africa (UComNetSus- Africa), Belmont Forum and Future Earth, Consortium Lead, 06/2021, 08/2023
• Annual Nairobi Summer School on Climate Justice, Kenyatta University and PACJA, Technical Curriculum Adviser and Trainer, 2021, 2026
• UNESCO Chair initiative on Higher Education Development for a Green Economy and Sustainability (HEDGES), UNESCO and Kenyatta University, Member of the Technical Working Group (TWG), 06/2020, Present
• Building Capacities of Local Practitioners for the Assessment of the Dynamics of Ecosystems in the Emerging Coastal Towns of Kenya, Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), Co-Principal Investigator, 2021, 2022
• Connecting agropastoral food culture research to livestock commercialisation policy, Institute of Development Studies (IDS-UK), Co-PI Kenyatta University project team, 2020, 2023
• Social and Environmental Abuses along the Salt Manufacturing Belt in Magarini, Kilifi County, Kituo Cha Sheria, Technical Group Leader, 08/2019, 10/2019
• Co-management of public forest, Researcher, 02/2019, 08/2019
• Food for Life, Greenpeace Africa, Team leader for Food Systems Mapping, 11/2018, 02/2019
• Assessment and mapping of ecosystem services in data-scarce peri-urban areas, Kiel University, Doctoral candidate, 2014, 2017
• Youth Jump project on database for Green jobs in Kenya, UN International Labour Organisation (UN- ILO), Developer of database for SACCOs and Microfinances that fund Green jobs for youth, 04/2010, 07/2011
• Coexistence of pastoralism and wildlife conservation at Kuku Group Ranch, Kenya, Technical University of Munich, Master thesis, 2008, 2010

• University of Cologne, Germany
• Kwame Nkruma University of Science & Technology, Ghana
• University of Rwanda, Rwanda
• Georgetown University, the USA
• University of Glasgow, UK
• Rhodes University, South Africa
• Great Albatross (Pty) Ltd., South Africa

Poster Prize 1st Place, 2016 Africa ESP Conference, Mapping land use potential for ecosystem services in data-scarce peri-urban landscapes: a case of Nairobi-Kiambu transection Kenya.

• Microsoft Office
• Vensim PLE
• Ganttproject
• ArcGIS
• STAN 2.0.1703
• SPSS 13.0
• Eviews 6
• TeXStudio
• Lyx
• CITAVI
• MENDELEY
• Basic applications in R-Statistics

• Treasurer, St. Michael Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Nairobi, Kenya, 2023-current
• Convenor, Environment Committee, Greenridge Residential Estate, Kiambu, Kenya, 2023-current
• Secretary General, Society of KASEA (SOK), 2023-Current
• Secretary General, German Catholic Academic Service (KAAD) Association of Scholars from East Africa (KASEA), 2018-2022
• Former Director, Society of KASEA Scholarship programme, 2011-2013
• Trainer, Simba scouts, 08/2009-10/2009
• Former Board member, Integrated Education for Community Empowerment (IECE) NGO, 2007-2008
• Former trainer, Ngei 1 Development Youth Group, Simama Pamoja Peace Initiative, 2007-2008
• UN conference planning assistance, UNFCCC and the Basel Convention, UNEP Complex in Nairobi, 07-09/2006
• Community educator, health and sanitation, West Pokot, Kenya, 11-12/2004

• Knowledge Action Network, Future Earth
• The Wildlife Conservation Society
• Society of KASEA
• KAAD & DAAD Scholars Alumni Association
• Registered EIA expert with National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)
• ALTER-NET
• Ecosystem Services Partnership

• Amayi, C. M., Wangai, P. W., & Ochola, S. O. (2024). Analyzing Food Security Status in the Artisanal Gold Mining Communities of Ikolomani, Kakamega, Kenya. Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports, 18(11), 303-317. https://doi.org/10.9734/ajarr/2024/v18i11797
• Mega Projects and De-commonization: Infrastructure, Land Tenure and Local Institutions Change in a Communal Conservancy in Isiolo, Kenya, Changwony, W., Kioko, E. M., Wangai, P. W., Journal of Science, Innovation and Creativity, 1, 1, 58–77, 2023, https://doi.org/10.58721/jsic.v1i1.247
• Les arts dans le dialogue et la communication sur l’environnement en Afrique de l’Ouest et de l’Est, Bellwood-Howard, I., Taylor, P., Niang, A., Bukari, K., Kioko, E., Wangai, P.W., Sountoura, L., Eran’Ogwa, B., Yamusah, M., IDS Working Paper, 593, 2023, https://doi.org/10.19088/IDS.2023.037
• Milk Markets in Agropastoral Areas of Africa, Eran’Ogwa, B., Olwanda, R., Cheptarus, G., Cheptoo, N., Kioko, E., Wangai, P., Baaru. M., Bukari, K., Bellwood-Howard, I., 2023, https://doi.org/10.19088/IDS.2023.018
• Milk Markets in Agropastoralist Areas of Africa–A Photoset, Bellwood-Howard, I., Bukari, K. N., Cheptarus, G., Cheptoo, N., Eran’Ogwa, B., Jerogony, L., Keroi, F., Kibowit, T., Kioko, E., Wangai, P. W., 2023, https://doi.org/10.19088/IDS.2023.016
• Assessing ecosystem service potentials to evaluate terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystem types in Northern Germany–An expert-based matrix approach, Müller, F., Bicking, S., Ahrendt, K., Bac, D. K., Blindow, I., Fürst, C., Haase, P., Kruse, M., Kruse, T., Ma, L., Perennes, M., Ruljevic, I., Schernewski, G., Schimming, C., Schneiders, A., Schubert, H., Schumaker, J., Tappeiner, U., Wangai, P., Windhorst, W., Zeleny, J., Ecological Indicators, 112, 106116, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106116
• Quantifying and Mapping Land Use Changes and regulating Ecosystem Services in a data-scarce peri-urban area in Kenya, Wangai, P. W., Burkhard, B., Müller, F., Ecosystems and People, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2018.1529708
• Contributing to the cultural ecosystem services and human wellbeing: a study application on indicators and linkages, Wangai, P. W., Burkhard, B., Kruse, M., Müller, F., Landscape Online, 50, 1-27, 2017, http://www.landscapeonline.de/103097lo201750
• A review of studies of ecosystem service assessments in Africa, Wangai, P. W., Burkhard, B., Mueller, F., International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment, 5, 2, 225-245, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsbe.2016.08.005
• Indicators of Ecosystem Services, Müller, F., B. Burkhard, Y. Hou, M. Kruse, L. Ma, P. Wangai, Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services, 2016, 157-170
• Drought related impacts on local people’s socioeconomic life and biodiversity conservation at Kuku Group Ranch, Southern Kenya, Wangai, P., Muriithi, K., Koenig, A., International Journal of Ecosystem, 3, 1, 1-6, 2013, http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ije.20130301.01.html

• Prof. Dr. Felix Müller, Chair, Department of Ecosystem Management, University of Kiel, Olshausenstr.75, Kiel, Germany, 24118
• Dr. Esther Kitur, Lecturer, Department of Environmental Science, Kenyatta University, P.O. Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya, 00100
• Dr. Joseph Kariuki Muriithi, Chairman, Department of Environmental Studies & Community Development, Kenyatta University, P.O. Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya, 00100

• Date of Birth: 11/15/79
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Kenyan
• Religion: Christianity