Her research interests include landscape diversity, agricultural adaptation, strategic retreat, vulnerability assessment, and scaling relationships.
Keywords: Human-environment interactions, environmental management, social vulnerability, resilience, climate change
Research Interests:
- Adaptation
- Landscape Diversity
- Strategic Retreat
- Rural Sustainability
- Scaling Relationships
Research Topic and Areas of Interest: Social-environmental system resilience and sustainability, geospatial statistics and modeling, agent-based simulation, social vulnerability, adaptation
Dr. Nelson's core areas of geographic research are in human-environment interactions and geospatial analysis and application.
I am a geographer and sustainability scientist with research interests in landscape diversity, agricultural adaptation, strategic retreat, vulnerability assessment, and scaling relationships.
Current projects include evaluation of scale-based uncertainty in social vulnerability indices, identification of challenges to diversification of agricultural systems, and estimating the transformative potential and spatial variability in biodegradable mulch film adoption for crop production.
Katherine (Kate) Nelson, assistant professor in Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Kansas State University, studies issues related to sustainable agriculture, social vulnerability, community resilience, and flood adaptation with an emphasis on spatial data analytics
Her research group studies issues related to community and agricultural landscape sustainability, including equity of strategic retreat policies, the relationship between crop diversity and crop yields, and rural sustainability assessment.
Expertise:
- Sustainable agriculture, flood adaptation, rural resilience, environmental justice, and spatial analysis.
