KAZAVA

We aim to facilitate a broader understanding of how livelihoods, land use and its history, and the environment are changing in this region... To accomplish this, funded by a U.S. National Science Foundation grant (#1560700), we are collaborating with partner organizations and team members from the U.S., Botswana, Zambia, and Namibia. The main goal of this project will be to determine leverage points in a conceptual framework that might mitigate how land-use decisions and land-cover change affect vulnerability in the face of uncertainty... Combining household surveys, remote sensing of vegetation and land use, and innovative modeling, the key leverage points identified will help craft interventions to mitigate different sources of household vulnerability. ​Our team has developed a conceptual model of how adaptive capacity, exposure to climate variability, and sensitivity to changes in land use might combine to affect household vulnerability. An integrated, quantitative modeling..