Here you can find the names of doctoral students and researchers
Doctoral researchers
Doctoral student
Education
MSc: Forest Economics, University of Helsinki
BSc: Tropical Forestry, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Research area
REDD+, community forestry
Vulnerability and adaptation
Sustainable forest management
On-going activities
Environmental vulnerability, social resilience and multi-scale governance (ENV-GOV)
Teaching
Students co-supervisonPublications
Doctoral Student
Education
MSc in Forest Economics and Marketing, University of Helsinki
Research areas
Plantation forestry; Local communities; Social-ecological resilience; Governance networks; Uruguay; South Africa
On-going activities
The socioeconomic impacts of large-scale tree plantations on local communities. Examining the empirical evidence. (UH-CIFOR 2016-17)
The impacts and governance of tree plantation landscapes in South Africa. (2017-18) [this is my own PhD project and not directly linked to any other on-going project at the department, but I guess its worth mentioning as it tells what I'm currently working on]
Teaching courses in the ecosystem service approach, plantation forestry in the tropics, and quantitative methods in social sciences, among others.
Publications
Doctoral Student
Education
MSc (Agri & For), Forest Products Marketing and Management, University of Helsinki, Finland
BSc (honors), Forestry, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
Research area
Value Chain Analysis, Livelihood analysis, Community Forest Management, Sustainable Management of Non-Timber Forest Products.
On-going activities
Coordinating the Forest Landscape Rehabilitation in the Mekong River Basin (FORMEB) cooperation project: (VITRI – Dept. Forestry, National University of Laos).
Research topic: The role of non-timber forest products in rural livelihoods and enhance their
resiliency and adaptive capacity to climatic uncertainties: case Lao PDR
Publications
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Education
MSc: Computer Science, Columbus State University, Georgia, USA
BSc: Computer Science, Columbus State University, Georgia, USA
Research Area:
Climate change, Carbon dynamics in semi-arid land-uses;
Deforestation and land degradation in the Sahel;
Climate smart agriculture; Rehabilitation of degraded lands;
Sahel; West-Africa
ON-GOING ACTIVITIES
Systematic quantitative review of the drivers of deforestation in the Sahel
Assessment of participatory action learning activities involving methods of fodder tree propagation, planting and restoration of degraded pasture (ICRAF)
Doctoral Student
Education
M.Sc. (research). 2021. Dept. Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
B.Sc. (Honours). 2018. Dept. Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Research area
Tropical forest conservation and management.
Deforestation and land system change.
Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing.
On-going projects
Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences, Dept. Forest Sciences
Publications
Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=rDT2RpRdYX8C&hl=sv)