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David Kafwamba

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  • Role in Center:

    Junior Researcher

  • Discipline:

    Geography, Environment and Development

  • University:

    University of Zambia

  • Country:

    Zambia

Biography: David Kafwamba is a Ph.D. scholarship holder at the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS) at the Technische Universität Berlin. His research interests center on human-environment interrelationships: how they are imagined, practiced, and represented in policy. Hence, his prospective Ph.D. research seeks to investigate how more-than-human geographies could lead to more environmentally sustainable urban settlements.
Employed in academia, David lectures at the University of Zambia at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (with Ed.) degree in Geography from the University of Zambia, and a Master of Science degree in Environment and Development from the University of Reading, United Kingdom. His master’s research investigated the role of environmental values in Climate Change decision-making processes within the Clean Development Mechanism in Zambia.

Research Topic: Navigating Environmental Sustainability with More-than-human Geographies

Selected Publications:

  • Chitonge, H./Mfune, O./Kafwamba, D./Kajoba, G. (2017): Hybrid land markets: monetarised customary land transactions in Zambia. Canadian Journal of African Studies 51(1), 123-143.

  • Kafwamba, D. (2018): Emerging Land Markets and the “Custodians” of a Fleeting Land Resource: Perspectives from Chibombo and Chongwe Districts of Zambia. In: Chitonge, H. & Umar B.B. (Eds.) Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa-Navigating the Contours of Change, Newcastle upon Tyne. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Mfune, O./Kafwamba, D. (2018): Policy, land use and livelihood interplay in customary areas in Zambia: The Case of smallholders in Chongwe. In Chitonge, H./ Umar B.B. (Eds.) Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa-Navigating the Contours of Change, Newcastle upon Tyne. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Human-Environment Interrelationships
  • Urban Development
  • Participatory Methods
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Natural Resources and Environmental Governance

Prizes & Awards:

  • DAAD six months scholarship