Prof. Olga Laiza Kupika

Email: kupikao@ub.ac.bw

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Work Experience

Senior Research Fellow, Okavango Research Institute (Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Enterprise)

Research Focus Area

Climate Change Adaptation
One Health and Climate Resilience
Green Economy, Climate Change and Environmental Conservation
Climate Change and Human-Wildlife-Livestock Interactions
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Local Ecological Knowledge
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage (tangible and intangible)
Nature Based Solutions
Citizen Science
Ethnobiology and Climate Change
Ecosystem Services
Sustainable Livelihoods

Research Areas

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Projects as PI

CO-CAT – Understanding African Universities’ Capacity for Climate Adaptation Research: Co-Creating and Implementing a Climate-Focused Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool (01/10/2025 - 31/12/2026)

Projects as Co-Investigator

Eastern and South African Regional Hub for Research and Policy on Climate Change and Health (01/08/2024 - 30/09/2028)

Projects as Team Member

Currently no objects available

Publications

A comparison of the 2023/24 El Niño with other El Niño events during 1981—2024 over the Okavango River Basin, southern Africa (2025)

Assessment of Amphibian Diversity in Components of the Okavango Delta Through Citizen Science and Audio Recordings (2025)

Riparian-Based Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change in Transfrontier Components of Botswana and Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Challenges. Handbook of Nature-Based Solutions to Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change (2024)