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Completed DPhil Students

• Norma Salinas (Completed 2012)
  Impacts of climate change on tropical cloud mountain forests.
• Kate Halladay (Completed 2011)
  Climate and Andean montane forests: the role of clouds.
• Arnoldo Matus Kramer (Completed Dec 2011)
  Adaptation to climate change in the tourism sector of the rapidly urbanizing Yucatan Caribbean coast.
• Gavin Killip (Completed 2011)
  Low-carbon refurbishment of UK housing and small-business premises: a study of delivery options.
• Mike Riddell
  Hunting, livelihoods and conservation in northern Republic of Congo.
• Royd Vinya
  Hydraulic architecture of ten Miombo woodlands' canopy tree species.
• Katharine Wilkinson
  'God-made' Heaven and Earth... 'Man-made' climate change: American evangelical discourses on global climate change.
• Joel Scriven
  Carbon forestry on an Amazonian frontier: barriers and opportunities.
• Przemyslaw Zelazowski
  Contemporary and future extent of evergreen tropical forests: insights from remote sensing and climate change simulations.
• Liana Anderson
  Remote sensing of carbon dynamics and land cover change over the Amazon.
• Katie Fenn
  Quantifying the seasonal variation in carbon and nutrient dynamics in an ancient broadleaved woodland at Wytham Woods near Oxford.
• Cecile Girardin
  Ecosystem carbon dynamics from Andes to Amazon.
• Alex Guerra Noriega
  Weather-related disaster risk in mountain areas: the Guatemalan highlands at the start of the 21st Century.
• Danae Maniatis
  Deforestation of the Congo Basin: patterns, drivers and conservation.
• Alexandra Morel
  Environmental monitoring and governance of Malaysian oil palm.
• Lucy King (Completed 2010)
  The interaction between the African elephant (Loxodonta africana africana) and the African honeybee (Apis melifera scutella) and its potential application as an elephant deterrent.
• Yuko Ogawa
  Assessing the potential impacts of climate change on Japanese forests.
• Bernardo Peredo
  Biodiversity, local development and poverty alleviation in Bolivia in a market economy: irreconcilable differences or windows of opportunity?
• Allen Shaw
  A political economy analysis of energy planning in India.
• Erika Trigoso
  Vulnerability to drought and community adaptation in the Andean high-plateau.
• Rebecca White
  Carbon governance in a consumer age: an investigation of the UK's food system.
• John Cole
  Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): foreign investment in sustainable infrastructure in developing countries.
• James Paterson
  The effects of climate change on structure and function of calcareous ash woodlands in the UK.
• Elinor Breman
  Long-term vegetation dynamics at the grassland-savanna ecotone in South Africa.
• Natasha Kuruppu
  Climate change and variability in the Pacific region: piloting adaptation strategies to facilitate sustainable development in the water sector of Kiribati.
• Adam Bumpus
  Carbon development: a political ecology analysis of carbon offset projects for local development and global climate benefits.
• Nathalie Butt
  Investigation of the climate drivers / constraints of plant distributions across the Amazon basin.
• Ana Malhado
  The functional biogeography of the Amazon forest canopy.
• Janice Golding
  Change in plant biodiversity in south-central Africa.
• John Gates
  Groundwater recharge and paleohydrology of the Badain Jaran, NW China.
• Mandar Trivedi
  Conservation in a changing climate: the potential to exploit microclimate heterogeneity and management.
• Mary Menton
  The effects of logging on non-timber forest products in the Brazilian Amazon: ecological and socio-economic perspectives.
• Tom Simchak (MLitt student)
  Changing cultures and identities in Shetland's oil era.
• Ben Champion
  Alternative agro-food networks in eastern Kansas.
• Graham Sinden
  Impact of renewable energy sources on future UK electricity supply.
• James Keirstead
  Behavioural responses to photovoltaics in UK households.
• Lydia Mason
  Transboundary water disputes in North America.
• James Keay-Bright
  Climate change: future perspectives for dryland degradation in the eastern Karoo.
• Stefan Buzhar
  Residential energy pricing, demand side energy efficiency and social welfare in transition: the missing policy link.
• Scott Henderson
  Biological invasions on island ecosystems: a case study of Psidium guajava in the Galapagos Islands.
• Genevieve Patenaude
  Comparative analysis of forest remote sensing.
• James Watson
  The effects of forest fragmentation.
• Richard Pearson
  Modelling of climate change impacts and biodiversity.
• Jane Carter Ingram
  Conservation and habitat degradation in Madagascar.
• Lauren Rickards
  Capable, enlightened and masculine: constructing English agriculturalist ideals in formal agricultural education, 1845-2003.
• Sarah Darby
  Making consumption visible: feedback on domestic energy use.