Road mediated trade-offs between conservation and development (A05*)

• Subject Area: Soil Sciences ; Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Sociology ; Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Cartography ; Ecology of Land Use ; Physical Geography
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

A05 will assess the political and economic drivers of road investments as well as the impacts of road development on land-use changes, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and rural livelihoods in Kenya and Namibia. The research project is designed to improve the understanding of spatially explicit impacts of road development on rural communities, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the trade-offs between those. A strong integration of different disciplines and collaboration with other projects from the first and the second phases of the CRC supports the inter- and transdisciplinary character of the project.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Georg Bareth; Professorin Dr. Lisa Biber-Freudenberger; Professorin Dr. Christina Bogner; Professor Dr. Jan Börner