Research Areas/Interests
As a Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Scientist, my research interests and expertise span the human-environment interface, focusing on the following:
- Ecosystem services and resilience and sustainable rural livelihoods;
- Climate-smart agriculture, climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies;
- Assessment of soil trace gas flux from natural and adapted land-uses;
- Carbon accounting, modelling and REDD+;
- Monitoring of land use/land cover dynamics, inventory and mapping of vegetation cover and health;
- Mapping spatial variability of soil nutrients and contaminants and land suitability analysis;
- Sustainable land management for crop yield and carbon sequestration;
- Restoration and amelioration of degraded forests and landscapes;
- Environmental pollution, toxicity and remediation, and ecological risk assessment;
- Soil and water quality monitoring (trace elements);
- Sustainable mining and quarrying, reclamation and mine closure;
- Biodiversity conservation and advancement of land degradation neutrality;
- Renewable and bioenergy resources utilisation
