Evaluating Sustainability
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
Assistant Professor, SCALes PI
My research interests include landscape diversity, agricultural adaptation, strategic retreat, vulnerability assessment, and scaling relationships.