Divining Disaster: Using Remote Sensing to Predict Regional Instability in African Pastoral Societies

Abstract

US Africa Command's (AFRICOM's) mandate and organization are designed to improve the capacity of partner nations to promote regional stability. In the pastoral regions of Africa, rangeland failure stemming from drought, climate change, desertification, and anthropogenic changes is an underlying initiator of regional instability. AFRICOM can improve its capability to predict when, where, and how severely rangeland failure is likely occur. This will increase AFRICOM's ability to improve partner nations' and organizations' capacities to prepare for and manages these crises. Remote sensing of the rangeland failure indicators coupled with predictive modeling can fill some of the information gaps, leaving AFRICOM better prepared to proactively address regional instability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2011
Accession Number
AD1030796

Entities

People

  • William A. Edwards

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Natural Resources
  • Organizational Structure
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Remote Sensing
  • Satellite Imaging
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Storm Surges
  • United States
  • United States Africa Command
  • Urban Areas

Readers

  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.