Environment, Politics and Development Group
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PhD students affiliated with the EPD group include:
Raphael Aidoo
Millennium Village Project in Ghana: Meddling with Tradition or Progressive Development?
Michelle Afrifah
Exploring the Socio-economic impact of African American tourists on Southern Ghana
Kristsada Buajud
The Political Ecology of Soil Conservation Programmes: A Case Study of the Karen Hill Tribe's Struggle with the State Soil Erosion Programme in Northern Thailand
Ana Elisa Lopes Cascao
The transboundary character of water resources in the Nile River Basin region
Xiaochun Chen
Assessing the Strategic Behaviour of Environmental NGOs in China
In Mook Choi
Ecotourism
James Deneslow
The political geography of the Syrian-Iraqi borderland: international, regional and local dynamics
Nick Dommett
The political ecology of violence: a case study of community settlements in Judea and Samaria
Jack Durrell
Maria Escobar
The Trafalgar Square Pigeons Story: empirical relations of space, animals and time
Grace Fayed-Collins
Layered hegemony and water allocation in Beirut 1992-2004
Michael Gilmont
Water Governance: forms, emergence and implications of a new water policy system
Emma Hinton
The politics of sustainable consumption in the UK: Networks, power and identity
Phillip Hunt
Laying down the angles of confusion: delimiting the Ilemi triangle
Julius Harrison Kotir
Risks and vulnerability in a changing environment: assessing smallholders adaption and coping strategies and institutional interventions in China
Glenn Leihner-Guarin
Immigrant ethnic identity in Northern Cyprus
Lisa Magloff
Building boundaries: construction of a Secessionist State
Nathanial Matthews
Intensification of hydropower in Mekong subregion of S.E. Asia since 2005
Jennifer McCarthy
Exploring the complex interplay of conflict and participatory development in Afghanistan
Katy Megarry
Negotiating Equality: Participatory Development and the role of Self-Help Groups in the Empowerment of Poor Women in Kerala, India
Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita
Environmental policy and local impacts in southern countries
Ahoura Meskinazarian
Social resilience in reconstruction of post-disaster Bam
Jemima Mieville
Medical fusion and assimilation in the Valley of Mexico during the first century of colony
Naho Mirumachi
Interaction Dynamics in Transboundary Waters: Conflict and Cooperation as Temporal Actions for Basin States
Rudolfo Munante-Sanguineti
The role of Agrarian policy for sustainable development - the case of Peru.
Cyrus Sharifi-Yazdi
Conduct of Arab Iranian rivalry in territorial disputes in the Persian Gulf: 1958-1974
Otilia Simkova
Geopolitical space of central Europe and its perspectives
Erin Smith
Moving from disaster response to disaster risk reduction strategies
Krithika Srinivasan
Rationalising Environmental Policy in India
David Wrathall
Urban Vulnerability and Risk to Environmental Events / Inernally Displaced Persons
Raphael Aidoo
Millennium Village Project in Ghana: Meddling with Tradition or Progressive Development?
Michelle Afrifah
Exploring the Socio-economic impact of African American tourists on Southern Ghana
Kristsada Buajud
The Political Ecology of Soil Conservation Programmes: A Case Study of the Karen Hill Tribe's Struggle with the State Soil Erosion Programme in Northern Thailand
Ana Elisa Lopes Cascao
The transboundary character of water resources in the Nile River Basin region
Xiaochun Chen
Assessing the Strategic Behaviour of Environmental NGOs in China
In Mook Choi
Ecotourism
James Deneslow
The political geography of the Syrian-Iraqi borderland: international, regional and local dynamics
Nick Dommett
The political ecology of violence: a case study of community settlements in Judea and Samaria
Jack Durrell
Maria Escobar
The Trafalgar Square Pigeons Story: empirical relations of space, animals and time
Grace Fayed-Collins
Layered hegemony and water allocation in Beirut 1992-2004
Michael Gilmont
Water Governance: forms, emergence and implications of a new water policy system
Emma Hinton
The politics of sustainable consumption in the UK: Networks, power and identity
Phillip Hunt
Laying down the angles of confusion: delimiting the Ilemi triangle
Julius Harrison Kotir
Risks and vulnerability in a changing environment: assessing smallholders adaption and coping strategies and institutional interventions in China
Glenn Leihner-Guarin
Immigrant ethnic identity in Northern Cyprus
Lisa Magloff
Building boundaries: construction of a Secessionist State
Nathanial Matthews
Intensification of hydropower in Mekong subregion of S.E. Asia since 2005
Jennifer McCarthy
Exploring the complex interplay of conflict and participatory development in Afghanistan
Katy Megarry
Negotiating Equality: Participatory Development and the role of Self-Help Groups in the Empowerment of Poor Women in Kerala, India
Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita
Environmental policy and local impacts in southern countries
Ahoura Meskinazarian
Social resilience in reconstruction of post-disaster Bam
Jemima Mieville
Medical fusion and assimilation in the Valley of Mexico during the first century of colony
Naho Mirumachi
Interaction Dynamics in Transboundary Waters: Conflict and Cooperation as Temporal Actions for Basin States
Rudolfo Munante-Sanguineti
The role of Agrarian policy for sustainable development - the case of Peru.
Cyrus Sharifi-Yazdi
Conduct of Arab Iranian rivalry in territorial disputes in the Persian Gulf: 1958-1974
Otilia Simkova
Geopolitical space of central Europe and its perspectives
Erin Smith
Moving from disaster response to disaster risk reduction strategies
Krithika Srinivasan
Rationalising Environmental Policy in India
David Wrathall
Urban Vulnerability and Risk to Environmental Events / Inernally Displaced Persons
Recently completed
Naho Mirumachi
Interaction Dynamics in Transboundary Waters: Assessing Conflict, Cooperation and Non-Interaction with the TWINS approach. Completed 2010. Currently LSE Fellow in Environment.
Fuad Ali
Erosion hazard in Bangladesh through its most exacting river, the braided Jamuna. Currently research fellow, School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich
Edward Bourque
Urban Governance and Unequal Geographies of Water in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Drivers of Choice in Buguruni Ward
Franklin Ginn
The garden: place, power, and the more-than-human in suburbia (awarded 2010)
Godwin Ojo
The political economy of natural resource use in Nigeria
Ignacio Rubio
Land tenancy politics and environment in Mexico
Stephen Lam
Borderlands of Ferghana Valley, Central Asia (awarded November 2008)
Marco Grasso
Towards a normative political economy of adaptation to global climate change based on distributive justice
Toong Youttananukorn
Participatory Development at the Grassroots Level: Managing a Microfinance Scheme in Northeast Thailand. A Model for Success? (Awarded June 2008)
Erika Bjureby
The political ecology of indigenous movements: a case study of the Shuar people's reaction against the oil industry in Ecuador (Awarded 2006)
Shohail Choudhury
From flood control to water resource management: shifting discourse and practices of water sector actors in Bangladesh. (Awarded 2006)
Assia Jazairy
Political ecology of water stress in Algiers and its' surroundings. (Awarded 2007)
James Jenkins
Implementing EU drinking water policy in England/Wales and Ireland. (Awarded 2007)
Gareth Johnstone
The contribution of social capital in sustaining common property resource development (awarded 2008)
Soyeun Kim
The 'Greening' of aid: political ecology of Japanese bilateral official development finance to the Philippines. (Awarded 2006)
Jeremy Lind
Fortune and loss in an environment of violence: living with insecurity in south Turkana, Kenya. (Awarded 2007) Currently lecturer in human geography, University of Sussex
Miranda McMinn
A critical analysis of tourism as a tool for coastal development and sustainable livelihoods: a case study of tourism and fisher (Awarded 2007)
Ting-Jieh Wang
Advancing green governmentality: Maqaw National Park project in Taiwan (awarded 2008)
Mark Zeitoun
Hydro-hegemony: the case of the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict (awarded 2006). Currently senior lecturer in development studies, University of East Anglia
Rukhe Zaidi
Institutionalization of common property regimes in Pakistan: the case of the Anjunman-e Mazarin (Landless Tenants) Punjab (awarded 2009) currently post-doctoral research fellow, Hazards & Risk Group, King's College London
Interaction Dynamics in Transboundary Waters: Assessing Conflict, Cooperation and Non-Interaction with the TWINS approach. Completed 2010. Currently LSE Fellow in Environment.
Fuad Ali
Erosion hazard in Bangladesh through its most exacting river, the braided Jamuna. Currently research fellow, School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich
Edward Bourque
Urban Governance and Unequal Geographies of Water in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Drivers of Choice in Buguruni Ward
Franklin Ginn
The garden: place, power, and the more-than-human in suburbia (awarded 2010)
Godwin Ojo
The political economy of natural resource use in Nigeria
Ignacio Rubio
Land tenancy politics and environment in Mexico
Stephen Lam
Borderlands of Ferghana Valley, Central Asia (awarded November 2008)
Marco Grasso
Towards a normative political economy of adaptation to global climate change based on distributive justice
Toong Youttananukorn
Participatory Development at the Grassroots Level: Managing a Microfinance Scheme in Northeast Thailand. A Model for Success? (Awarded June 2008)
Erika Bjureby
The political ecology of indigenous movements: a case study of the Shuar people's reaction against the oil industry in Ecuador (Awarded 2006)
Shohail Choudhury
From flood control to water resource management: shifting discourse and practices of water sector actors in Bangladesh. (Awarded 2006)
Assia Jazairy
Political ecology of water stress in Algiers and its' surroundings. (Awarded 2007)
James Jenkins
Implementing EU drinking water policy in England/Wales and Ireland. (Awarded 2007)
Gareth Johnstone
The contribution of social capital in sustaining common property resource development (awarded 2008)
Soyeun Kim
The 'Greening' of aid: political ecology of Japanese bilateral official development finance to the Philippines. (Awarded 2006)
Jeremy Lind
Fortune and loss in an environment of violence: living with insecurity in south Turkana, Kenya. (Awarded 2007) Currently lecturer in human geography, University of Sussex
Miranda McMinn
A critical analysis of tourism as a tool for coastal development and sustainable livelihoods: a case study of tourism and fisher (Awarded 2007)
Ting-Jieh Wang
Advancing green governmentality: Maqaw National Park project in Taiwan (awarded 2008)
Mark Zeitoun
Hydro-hegemony: the case of the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict (awarded 2006). Currently senior lecturer in development studies, University of East Anglia
Rukhe Zaidi
Institutionalization of common property regimes in Pakistan: the case of the Anjunman-e Mazarin (Landless Tenants) Punjab (awarded 2009) currently post-doctoral research fellow, Hazards & Risk Group, King's College London