About Dr Harold CHISALE

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Research Interest for: Dr Harold CHISALE

climate change, forests and forest dependent communities

In this research, the promovendus characterizes the vulnerability, resilience and climate adaptive strategies of forest-dependent communities in selected Forest Reserves in Malawi. The promovendus adopted a vulnerability assessment framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which combines the elements of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity to forest-based people. The framework was modified to demonstrate how forest-dependent households conceptualize their vulnerability to climate change. The results provide insight on the level of climate change awareness, knowledge and site-based key climate extreme events. Not all identified climate extreme events were threats to livelihoods of the forest dependent-communities, but climate change and extreme weather are likely to increase forest resource use. Despite these, the inadequate capacity and ineffective participation in forest management threatens the contribution of forests to the rural livelihoods. For climate adaptive strategies, it is thus recommended that forest-dependent communities should be engaged in characterizing their vulnerability to climate change.

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Nature based solutions, carbon financing and climate change

Nature based Solutions, Non timber forest products, Disaster Risk management, Forest, biodiversity modelling; carbon and green credits. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5267-8791 , https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57205679820 , https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DJPn1fQAAAAJ&hl=en

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