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PhD students

Current PhD students

Year started Name Title Funding Supervisor
2004 Chetan Kumar Tenure rights, collective action and participatory management: a comparative study of selected regions in Shivalik ORS and Cambridge Nehru Scholarship Bhaskar Vira
2004 Ivan Scales The politics of conservation, tourism and development in the tropical dry forests of the Menabe region, Western Madagascar ESRC Bill Adams
2004 Matthew Wilburn Political ecology of mangroves in southern Honduras: the emergence and evolution of environmental conflict in the Gulf of Fonseca Self-funded Tim Bayliss-Smith
2003 Gemma Burgess The Ethiopian women's movement: women's rights, organisations and the role of legal change DRS Liz Watson
2003 Aditi Mukherji Irrigation management transfer and role of self-governing irrigation institutions: lessons from India Gates Scholarship Bhaskar Vira
2003 Katie Tanner The marine shell trade in East Africa Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust (CPEST) Tim Bayliss-Smith
2002 Wynet Smith Logging and forest communities in SE Cameroon CPEST and Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Bill Adams
2001 Jane Dyson Society and children's natural resource use in the Himalayas ESRC/NERC Studentship Bhaskar Vira
2001 Max Graham Coexistence in an uncertain landscape: Land use, risk and elephant ecology in Laikipia District, Kenya ESRC/NERC Studentship Bill Adams and Phyllis Lee
2001 Caroline Cowan Identity, nature and political change: decolonisation and conservation in Africa ESRC Studentship Bill Adams
2001 Martin Kaonga Carbon dynamics in agroforestry systems in Zambia Gates Scholarship Tim Bayliss-Smith
2001 Zerihun Mohammed Competition and Access to Natural Resources in South-Central Ethiopia Gates Scholarship Liz Watson
2001 Rasidah Hashim Regeneration dynamics of secondary forests in Negri Sembilan, Malaysia Malaysian Government Tim Bayliss-Smith
1999 Murat Arsel Political Economy of Sustainable Development: Ecological Modernisation in Turkey Cambridge Commonwealth Trust/ORS Bhaskar Vira

Recently completed PhDs

Year submitted Name Title Funding Supervisor
2004 Malcolm Starkey Commerce and subsistence: the hunting, sale and consumption of Bushmeat in Gabon ESRC Studentship Bill Adams
2004 Smrithi Talwar Community forestry in Myanmar (Burma) Cambridge Commonwealth Trust/ORS Bhaskar Vira
2004 Caroline Upton 'Tragedy' or Transformation? Institutions, collective action and conservation on Mongolia's pastoral commons Cambridge University and ESRC Studentship Tim Bayliss-Smith
2004 Joanna Woodman Between bureaucrats and beneficiaries: the implementation of ecodevelopment in Pench tiger reserves, India. ESRC/NERC Studentship Bhaskar Vira and Phyllis Lee
2003 Kaveri Gill Of poverty and markets: the political economy of informal waste recovery and plastic recycling in Delhi Cambridge Commonwealth Trust/ORS Bhaskar Vira
2002 Aaron Padilla The Ogoni movement and the discourse of transnational contention Marshall Scholarship Bill Adams
2002 Richard Perkins The environmental Kuznets Curve ESRC Studentship Bhaskar Vira
2002 Lee Risby Defining landscape, power and participation: an examination of a national park planning process for Queen Elizabeth National Park Uganda ESRC Studentship Bill Adams
2002 Kath Tovey Institutional responses to the water needs of the urban poor: a study of collective action in Delhi slums, India ESRC Studentship Bhaskar Vira
2002 Lucy Welford "Children of the Soil": power, politics and participation in community based natural resource management in Zimbabwe ESRC Studentship Bill Adams
2001 Thanak de Lopez Protected Area management in Cambodia Cambridge European Trust Tim Bayliss-Smith