Environmental Change Institute - University of Oxford

Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan

Completed in 2020

The legacy of polders: Diagnosing complex flooding processes and adaptation options in the coastal region of Bangladesh

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Laura Brinker

Completed in 2020

Energy decisions and governance: implications of retail market design for decentralized energy resources

Supervisor: Prof. Nick Eyre

Vanessa Burns

Completed in 2020

Oceanic assembleges: conceputalising El Nino Southern Oscillation as a more than human oceanography

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton

Tess Doeffinger

Completed in 2020

Evaluating Water Security: Diagnostics and Trends

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Dina Hestad

Completed in 2020

Organising Urban Sustainability Transformations: Exploring the role, abilities, and potential of Sustainability-Oriented Hybrid Organisations

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr J. Tabara (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Jiashun Huang

Completed in 2020

Infrastructure, the Economy and Policy

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall; Professor Doyne Farmer (INET)

Nadezhda Mamontova

Completed in 2020

Spatial Knowledge, Language, and Adaptation to the Landscape among the Ewenki of Central and Northeastern Siberia

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton

Nicolas Raab

Completed in 2020

Modelling tree carbon allocation, gas and energy exchange in the Amazon through functional structural models

Supervisor: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi

Jose Ramirez Mendiola

Completed in 2020

Residential electricity demand: a modelling analysis of the dynamics of household activity and energy consumption patterns

Supervisors: Prof. Nick Eyre; Prof. Jim Hall

June Rubis

Completed in 2020

(Re)imagining forest conservation landscapes and development pathways: indigenous strategies in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

Supervisor: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi

Aven Satre Meloy

Completed in 2020

Characterising temporal aspects of residential electricity consumption using advanced multivariate statistics

Supervisors: Prof. Nick Eyre; Dr Philipp Grünewald

Aoife Bennett

Completed in 2019

A political ecology of smallholder oil palm production and forest conservation in the Amazon frontier: towards a balanced approach to development in Ucayali, Peru

Supervisors: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Constance McDermott; Dr Peter Cronkleton (CIFOR)

Anabelle Cardoso

Completed in 2019

The role of fire and elephants in shaping a central African forest-savannah mosaic

Supervisors: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras; Dr Katharine Abernethy (University of Stirling)

Agne Gvozdevaite

Completed in 2019

The role of economic, venation and morphological leaf traits in plant and ecosystem function along forest-savannah gradients in the tropics

Supervisors: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras

Toby Jackson

Completed in 2019

Tree biomechanics: a study of the mechanical stability of broadleaf trees

Supervisors: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Alexander Shenkin; Dr Lisa Patrick Bentley

Xiawei Liao

Completed in 2019

Future conflicts of water demands and availability in China's power sector

Supervisors: Prof. Nick Eyre; Prof. Jim Hall

Scott MacDonald

Completed in 2019

An international comparison of voluntary green electricity tariffs

Supervisor: Prof. Nick Eyre

Christine Moore

Completed in 2019

Complex Mosaic Landscapes: Novel methodologies to understand dynamics of Cocoa farming in Ghana

Supervisor: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi

Kiron Neale

Completed in 2019

Beyond Implementation: Mainstreaming Residential Solar Energy in Trinidad

Supervisors: Dr Chris Jardine; Prof. Nick Eyre

Ruksana Rimi

Completed in 2019

Anthropogenic climate change and extreme weather events: implications for Bangladesh

Supervisors: Prof. Myles Allen; Dr Karsten Haustein; Dr Emily Barbour

Festus Asaaga

Completed in 2018

Land rights, tenure security and sustainable land use in rural Ghana

Supervisors: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Mark Hirons

Iliana Cardenes Trujillo

Completed in 2018

Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle

Supervisors: Prof. Nick Eyre; Prof. Jim Hall

Xi (Sisi) Hu

Completed in 2018

A temporal and spatial analysis of China’s infrastructure and economic vulnerability to climate change impacts

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Yingqi Liu

Completed in 2018

The role of the forward capacity market in promoting electricity use reduction: case studies of the electricity demand reduction (EDR) pilot in the UK and international schemes in North America and Europe

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Prof. Nick Eyre

Brice Perombelon

Completed in 2018

Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower: the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada

Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Richard Powell

Kevin Wheeler

Completed in 2018

Cooperation or conflict in trans-boundary rivers with the emergence of climate variability: a case study of the Nile River

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Meghan Bailey

Completed in 2017

Robust adaptation planning and decision-making: a comparative study of subsistence-oriented communities in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and West Africa

Supervisor: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi

Abrar Chaudhury

Completed in 2017

Organising climate change adaptation: an organisation and network perspective to agriculture adaptation in developing countries

Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Ariella Helfgott; Dr Marc Ventresca (SSB)

Franziska Gaupp

Completed in 2017

The global impact of droughts on agricultural production

Supervisors: Prof. Simon Dadson; Prof. Jim Hall

Ashley Kingsborough

Completed in 2017

Climate change risk assessment, Decision making and the development of adaptation pathways

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Qiong Lu

Completed in 2017

Modelling of pesticides and POPs in the River Thames System: potential impacts of changes in climate and management

Supervisor: Prof. Paul Whitehead

Ewan Macdonald

Completed in 2017

Clouds on the horizon: identifying global priorities for conservation marketing and planning the conservation of the Sunda clouded leopard on Borneo

Supervisor: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi

Cecilia Chavana-Bryant

Completed in 2016

Impacts of leaf age on the spectral and physiochemical traits of trees in Amazonian forest canopies

Supervisor: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Dr France Gerard (CEH)

Tahia Devisscher

Completed in 2016

Wildfire under a changing climate in the Bolivian Chiquitania: a social-ecological systems analysis

Supervisor: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Emily Boyd (Reading)

Linda Geaves

Completed in 2016

Public priorities and public goods: the drivers and responses to transitions in flood risk management

Supervisors: Prof. Edmund Penning-Rowsell; Prof. Jim Hall

Yuge Ma

Completed in 2016

The emergence of low carbon development in China and India: energy efficiency as a lens

Supervisors: Prof. Nick Eyre; Prof. Anna Lora-Wainwright; Barbara Harriss-White

Balqis Mohamed Rehan

Completed in 2016

Risk-based flood protection decisions in the context of climatic variability and change

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Andre Neves

Completed in 2016

The impact of walking and cycling infrastructure on personal travel and carbon emissions: the case of Cardiff Connect2

Supervisor: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Tim Jones

Chase Sova

Completed in 2016

Decision making, agenda setting and preference shaping in Ghana's agricultural climate change adaptation policy regime: a political ecological perspective

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton

Scott Thacker

Completed in 2016

Reducing the risk of failure in interdependent national infrastructure network systems

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Marina Topouzi

Completed in 2016

Occupants' interaction with low-carbon retrofitted homes and its impact on energy use

Supervisor: Prof. Nick Eyre; Dr Rajat Gupta

Kate Young

Completed in 2016

Strategic appraisal of interdependent infrastructure provision

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Edoardo Borgomeo

Completed in 2015

Water resources adaptation decisions in the context of climatic non-stationarity and variability

Supervisor: Prof. Jim Hall

Emma Cardwell

Completed in 2015

A study of the UK's market based fisheries policy

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton; Prof. Daniel Pauly (UBC, Canada)

Daniel Cooper

Completed in 2015

Under Mount Roraima: The revitalization of a shamanic landscape and practice

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton

Cecilia Dahlsjo

Completed in 2015

The role of termite assemblages in ecosystem processes in tropical forests

Supervisor: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Paul Eggleton (Natural History Museum)

Alexis Gutierrez

Completed in 2015

The Sustainable Seafood Movement - bringing together supply, demand and governance of capture fisheries in the US and UK to achieve sustainability

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton

Lucy Mahoney

Completed in 2015

Investigating the interactions of travel behaviour and wellbeing: a mixed-methods case study of Penarth and Cardiff, Wales

Supervisors: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Tim Jones

Dane Rook

Completed in 2015

Doxastic spaces: a new approach to relational beliefs and unstable neglect

Supervisors: Prof. Gordon L. Clark; Prof. Nick Eyre

Caroline Schmidt

Completed in 2015

Law, geography and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Implications for REDD+ national implementation

Supervisor: Dr Constance McDermott

Rocio Urrutia

Completed in 2015

Primary productivity and soil respiration in Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile and their environmental controls

Supervisors: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Pam Berry

Malek Al-Chalabi

Completed in 2014

The road not taken? A longitudinal and interdisciplinary examination of energy behaviours

Supervisors: Prof. David Banister; Dr Christian Brand

Kathryn Clark

Completed in 2014

The role of landslides in the Peruvian Andes in determining forest ecology and carbon transport

Supervisors: Prof. Yadvinder Malhi; Prof. Mark New

Erin Freeland-Ballantyne

Completed in 2014

Sustainability's paradox: community health, climate change and petro-capitalism

Supervisors: Prof. Andrew Barry; Dr Tom Thornton

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Completed doctoral students (since 2006)

Yingqi Liu

Kevin Wheeler

Ewan Macdonald

Cecilia Chavana-Bryant

Tahia Devisscher

Linda Geaves

Yuge Ma

Balqis Mohamed Rehan

Andre Neves

Chase Sova

Scott Thacker

Marina Topouzi

Kate Young

Edoardo Borgomeo

Emma Cardwell

Daniel Cooper

Cecilia Dahlsjo

Alexis Gutierrez

Lucy Mahoney

Dane Rook

Caroline Schmidt

Rocio Urrutia

Malek Al-Chalabi

Kathryn Clark

Erin Freeland-Ballantyne

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