Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Lecturer in Environmental Science at Duke Kunshan University
·
2025 - Present
DKU Faculty
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Interdisciplinary Studies at DKU Unit at Duke University
·
2026 - Present
Interdisciplinary Studies at DKU Unit,
DKU Faculty
Recent Scholarly Works
Towards climate resilient cities: An adaptive zoning approach based on flood vulnerability assessment
Journal article Environmental Impact Assessment Review · January 1, 2027 Coastal megacities face escalating threats from climate-induced hazards such as sea-level rise and extreme precipitation events, which highlight the limitations of static urban planning approaches relying upon historical data, as they struggle to predict a ... Full text CiteChinese sisal estates and smallholder land uses and livelihoods, Kilosa, Central Tanzania
Journal article World Development · May 1, 2024 The impacts of large-scale agribusiness, commonly associated with land grabbing, on smallholder livelihoods in Africa have been the subject of an expansive array of research that tends to focus on socioeconomic or environmental issues. This study examines ... Full text CiteModeling trade-offs among ecosystem services for agriculture in the “sisal belt” of Kilosa, central Tanzania
Journal article Landscape Ecology · February 1, 2023 Context: Exploring ways to maintain a biophysically functioning environment while improving human welfare based on competing stakeholder land uses is critical for sustainable development, especially under the context of a surging “global land rush”. Object ... Full text CiteEducation
Arizona State University ·
2022
Ph.D.