My guest today is Dr Vicky Boult, a research scientist and knowledge exchange fellow at the University of Reading. Vicky's PhD, which she finished in 2018, focused on developing individual-based models to predict the impact of habitat loss and climate change on elephant population dynamics. Since completing her PhD, her work has become increasingly multi-disciplinary, focusing on developing drought forecasting tools and evaluating their use for humanitarian and agricultural decision-making, as well as for mitigating human-elephant conflict. In this conversation, we're going to be discussing Vicky's paper: "Towards drought impact-based forecasting in a multi-hazard context", published in January of this year in the journal Climate Risk Management.
