Since the end of the African Humid Period, Nilotic communities have adapted to climate change, population growth, and political shifts by managing food and water resources. Access to, production, and transport of food and water have been central to these goals. This project examines how these communities have responded to challenges by studying the physical components of their land use practices. 

This project is investigating the following topics:

1. Innovation: How have people adapted land use strategies to cope with environmental change, and how can innovative remote sensing technologies and community engagement help understand this?
2. Resilience:  What were/are the short-and long-term effects of human-landscape adaptation?
3. Environment: How has the physical geography of the Northern Dongola Reach changed through time, and how has it related to landscape infrastructure development?
4. Threat: Where and from what processes are past and present people, sites, and landscapes at most risk?
5. Mitigation: How can we build heritage awareness and management into future, community-driven strategies for landscape planning?