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Rebecca Navarro

Rebecca Navarro

Researcher

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+49 228 91196-46

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rebecca.navarro(at)bicc.de

Expertise

Research Profile

Rebecca’s work examines how environmental change and resource pressures affect livelihoods and insecurity in fragile contexts. She combines remote sensing and geospatial analysis with qualitative insights to understand how environmental factors and political actors shape violent and social conflict in rural communities in Africa. Her work includes analysing policy-driven land use changes and assessing how climate anomalies influence pastoral communities.

Research Topics / Key Expertise

Climate-Conflict Nexus

Land use land cover change (LULCC) analysis

Remote sensing  

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Gender issues

Countries Of Expertise

  • Morocco,
  • Kenya,
  • Uganda

Professional Career

Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Applied Geography from RWTH Aachen University and a master’s degree (MSc) in Environmental Protection and Landscape Ecology from the University of Bonn.

She joined bicc in September 2020 to support the I-WALAMAR project on sustainable transformation processes in rural Morocco. Prior to this, she worked in the field of sustainable energy innovations in agriculture and food production for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

Important Publications

bicc report

Navarro, R., Müller-Koné, M., & Longoli, S.

Gender Relations in the Face of Climate Change and Conflict at the Kenya–Uganda Border

bicc , Bonn (2025)

Open
Journal article

Navarro, R., Wirkus, L., & Dubovyk, O.

Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Olive Orchard Intensification in the Saïss Plain (Morocco) Using k-Means and High-Resolution Satellite Data

MDPI , Basel (2023)

Open
Book chapter

Navarro, R.

Climate Finance and Neo-colonialism: Exposing Hidden Dynamics

Palgrave Macmillan Cham , London (2022)

Open

Publications

bicc report

Navarro, R., Müller-Koné, M., & Longoli, S.

Gender Relations in the Face of Climate Change and Conflict at the Kenya–Uganda Border

bicc , Bonn (2025)

Open
Journal article

Navarro, R., Saleh, L., & Owino, E.

Pastoral Conflict on the Greener Grass? Exploring the Climate-Conflict Nexus in the Karamoja Cluster

Elsevier , Amsterdam (2025)

Open

Journal article

Navarro, R., Wirkus, L., & Dubovyk, O.

Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Olive Orchard Intensification in the Saïss Plain (Morocco) Using k-Means and High-Resolution Satellite Data

MDPI , Basel (2023)

Open

Book chapter

Navarro, R.

Climate Finance and Neo-colonialism: Exposing Hidden Dynamics

Palgrave Macmillan Cham , London (2022)

Open