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Current DPhil Students

New students for 2011

  • Meghan Bailey
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
  • Abrar Chaudhury
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
    Costing Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
  • Tahia Devisscher
    Supervisor: Yadvinder Malhi
    Enhancing the Adaptive Capacity of Social-ecological Systems in Tropical Forest Landscape
  • Alexis Gutierrez
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
    The impact of market-based incentives on global sustainable fishing
  • Yuge Ma
    Second supervisor: Nick Eyre
  • Balqis Mohammed Rehan
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
    Developing robust decision making strategies for dealing with uncertainties in flow variability for hydrological extremes
  • Dane Rook
    Second supervisor: Nick Eyre
    Analysing effective strategies for pioneering sustainable technology investment through behavioural finance and psychology lenses.
  • Scott Thacker
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
    Reducing the Risk of Failure in Interdependent National Infrastructure Network Systems
  • Kate Young
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
    Long term planning of options for sustainable national infrastructure provision
  • Malek Al-Chalabi
    Socio/technical research of personal transport use.
  • Rodrigo Arce
    Certified Forest industry diversification in the Bolivian Northern Amazon: escaping the staple trap in the forest carbon era
  • Juan Carlos Arredondo
    Adaptation to climate change in Mexico: reducing the barriers and maximising the benefits of corporate and government responses.
  • Emma Cardwell
    Using property rights to manage fisheries: a case study from the UK
    Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton
  • Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
    Relationships between leaf life-cycle and Earth Observation-derived indices in Amazonian rainforests and savannas
  • Kathryn Clark
    The role of landslides in the Peruvian Andes in determining forest ecology and carbon transport.
  • Dan Cooper
    Under Mount Roraima: the conservation and development of a sacred landscape
  • Daniel Curtis
    Achieving 2020 carbon reduction targets in the higher education sector of England: the role of building energy information systems.
  • Cecilia Dahlsjo
    Unravelling the role of termites in ecosystem functioning in tropical Amazonia.
  • Christian Ellermann
    Climate change policy in China: tracing successful sustainable development policies and measures.
  • Steven Heathcote
    Attitudinal gradients in Bromeliad ecology and physiology.
  • Dominique Henri
    Managing Nature, Producing Cultures: Inuit Participation, Science and Policy in Wildlife Governance in the Nunavut Territory, Canada.
  • Kho Lip Khoon
    Carbon cycling in Bornean tropical forest.
  • Debora Ley
    Sustainable development, climate change and renewable energy in rural Central America.
  • Ewan MacDonald
    How can we maximise the contribution of carbon finance mechanisms to deliver biodiversity co-benefits to species and ecosystem conservation?
  • Philip Mann
    Energy planning in the developing world - synergies and trade-offs between increasing energy access for poverty reduction, energy security and climate goals.
  • Jan Rosenow
    Moving towards a low energy future in the domestic sector? Social transition and the role of public policy.
  • Sharad Saxena
    Urban transport investment decisions – balancing efficiency, environment and equity.
  • Caroline Schmidt
    Avoiding deforestation and the geography of law in the Brazilian Amazon.
  • Marina Topouzi
    The role of occupants' interaction with the UK's retrofitted housing stock in energy consumption.
  • Rocio Urrutia
    Assessment of forest ecosystem services under climate and land use change scenarios in Chile.
  • Cindy Warwick
    Integrating water and development under the Water Framework Directive: a political ecology approach.