Agricultural Abandonment

This study aims to quantify and understand changes in agricultural abandonment under a variety of projected climate scenarios, its impacts on connectivity, and how future agricultural demand can be satisfied with these abandoned lands. A manuscript for this project is currently in production.

Employer: emLab (Environmental Markets Lab, UCSB) and Conservation International, through a larger project called SPARCLE/SPARC (Spatial Planning for Climate Change: Land Use for Conservation, Agriculture, and Energy). The funding for this particular project comes from the Arnhold Fellowship.

Colleagues: Ashley Larsen (PI), Patrick Roehrdanz (PI), Cameryn Brock (project manager), Alyssa Jain, Noah Moyer

• Research
• Agriculture
• Landscape Ecology
• GIS