Dr. Leo C. Zulu

Faculty Nature-Society Studies

• Professor
• Director, African Studies Center

• Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
• African Studies Center

• Geography Building
• 673 Auditorium Rd, Rm 123
• East Lansing, MI 48824
• 517-432-4744
• zulu@msu.edu

AREA OF STUDY

Political ecology, environment and development, and resource management in rural Africa. Remote sensing and GIS.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political ecology; environment and development; community-based natural resources management in rural Africa; deforestation; food security; socio-spatial; temporal and biophysical processes of land use and land cover change in Africa and the techniques that permit their examination including Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems; and vulnerability and adaptation of rural communities in southern Africa to climate change.