Why GSRIT?
Human–wildlife conflict affects people, livelihoods and biodiversity at the same time. The project recognizes that HWC, climate change, land-use and land-cover change, and related social pressures are often studied in separate disciplinary silos. GSRIT is designed to connect these dimensions and convert them into spatially explicit evidence for risk assessment and decision support.
Project aim
GSRIT aims to index human–nature conflict using geospatial technologies, clarify the relationships among conflict drivers and stakeholders, and integrate existing knowledge with forward-looking analysis of how risks may change under climate and land-use pressures.
Core objectives
- Identify and map drivers of HWC including ecological, socio-economic and spatio-temporal factors.
- Quantitatively and qualitatively assess HWC combining databases, surveys, interviews and other evidence.
- Examine the influence of national and international policies on HWC.
- Assess climate influence at local scales, including drought, rainfall variability, vegetation stress and water availability.
- Develop a spatially explicit risk-index tool by integrating geospatial data with the identified drivers.
- Provide web-based interactive mapping and decision support through the GSRIT dashboard.
Community and stakeholder engagement
Community involvement is intended to remain central throughout the project. GSRIT therefore combines technical analysis with stakeholder knowledge, field evidence, communication and policy engagement rather than treating risk mapping as a purely remote-sensing exercise.