Dr. Kueshi Sémanou Dahan

Kueshi Sémanou Dahan

Dr.

Environmental management and sustainability/ Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment (PhD)
Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture (M.Sc.)
Plant Biology (M.Sc.)
Physical Geography (B.Sc./M.Sc.)

Working Group: Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries

Research Area 2 "Land Use and Governance"
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
Eberswalder Straße 84
15374 Müncheberg

T +49 (0)162 5684411
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Expertise

Environment management, natural resource management, remote sensing, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), and Geostatistics
Climate big data and socio-economic data processing and modelling
Forestry data processing
Spatial data analysis: satellite image processing, use of modern machine learning tools such as Google Earth Engine, R, Python and Java languages

Tasks

Assess variations of bushfire impacts in selected project intervention zones in Cameroon using geospatial maps, existing drone images and ground trothing to identify zones with lower bushfire frequency
Identify and describe behaviors of community living in reduced bushfire zones associated with their land use diversification and other strategies relating to landscape management that are locally applicable and empirically verified using survey questionnaire, interviews and focus groups
Assess scaling up potential of identified best-practice strategies through participatory workshops
Liaison with local FLR collaboration partners
(Co-)Supervision of supporting Master thesis projects
Publication of scientific papers, policy briefs and results presentation

Curriculum Vitae

Projects