Evaluating Sustainability

Last updated on Jul 26, 2023
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Examining how we conceptualize and measure complex latent constructs like sustainability and related ideas of vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity. Ongoing work includes:

  • A sensitivity analysis of a social vulnerability index for the US across resolutions and extents.
  • Uncertainty analysis of an adaptive capacity index for agricultural communities
Kate Nelson
Kate Nelson
Associate Professor, SCALes PI

My research interests include landscape diversity, agricultural adaptation, strategic retreat, vulnerability assessment, and scaling relationships.