Name: Meggan Spires
Research project title: Local government planned community-based climate change adaptation: Analysing barriers in four South African municipalities
Research aim: Climate change adaptation is essential, as regardless of mitigation action, we’ll be dealing with climate change impacts for decades to come. My research aims to identify and understand how the multiple and interacting barriers to planned climate change adaptation operate, with a specific focus on community-based adaptation planned and implemented by South African municipalities.
Supervisor: Professor Sheona Shackleton
Email: megglewis@hotmail.com
Name: Makame, Makame Omar
Research project title: Vulnerability and adaptation of Zanzibar coastal communities to climate variability and change, and other linked stressors
Research aim: aims to understand the vulnerability and adaptation of coastal communities to observed variability and change in climate and sea level in order to acquire insight regarding the vulnerability of these communities to future variability in climate and interacting stressors.
Supervisor: Professor Sheona Shackleton
Email: maqam04@yahoo.co.uk
Name: Mashoko Stephen Grey
Research project title: Missing the ingredient - rethinking drought disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: a case study of Chirumhanzu District, Zimbabwe
Research aim: To explore the opportunity of integrating environmental disaster risk reduction (EDRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) approaches to deal with future climate change and community vulnerability.
Supervisor: Professor Sheona Shackleton
Email: mashokogs@yahoo.com
Name: Tata Precillia Ijang-Ngome
Research project title: Exogenous and endogenous drivers shaping the contribution of wild foods to food security in the Lobeke National Park in the Sangha Trinational Landscape of the Congo Basin
Supervisor: Professor Charlie Shackleton
Email: ijang2001@yahoo.fr
Name: Rebecca Joubert
Research project title: Geomorphic form and recent dynamics of the Baviaans River floodplain, Eastern Cape: implications for floodplain restoration
Research aim: To describe the geomorphological form and recent (last 100yrs) dynamics of the Baviaans River floodplain in the Eastern Cape and investigate drivers of change with a view to evaluating the planned restoration interventions for the river-floodplain, and provide a knowledge-base to support future restoration planning.
Supervisor: Professor Fred Ellery
Email: rebeccajoub@gmail.com
Name: Malgorzata Bryja
Research project title: Challenges and opportunities for promoting adaptive co-management with the Waodani nationality in Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuadorian Amazon
Research aim: To evaluate potential for successful adaptive co-management (ACM) in the Waodani socio-ecological system in the Ecuadorian Amazon. I am interested in the two parts of the equation; the Waodani people and their readiness for and attitudes towards collaboration as well as external actors, their perceptions about the Waodani and their own readiness for a challenging and long term commitment to collaborative processes.
Supervisor: Professor Sheona Shackleton
Email: gbryja@wcs.org
Name: Rhoda Kachali
Research project title: Edible caterpillars: a tool for forest conservation.
Supervisor: Dr James Gambiza
Email: kachali@gmail.com
Name: Lilian Goredema
Research project title: CBNRM Forums as social networks: Contribution to CBNRM Policy and Practice in southern Africa
Research aim: to investigate the functions, roles, structure and learning processes within CBNRM forums and how they contribute to CBNRM policy and practice within southern Africa.
Supervisor: Professor Sheona Shackleton
Email: lrgoredema@gmail.com
Name: Claire Ntshane
Research project title: Land use change scenarios for two biosphere reserves in the Limpopo province.
Supervisor: Dr James Gambiza
Email: g09N7631@campus.ru.ac.za
Name: Vurayai Mutekwa
Research project title: Forest governance and use: reconciling conservation goals and livelihoods needs - the case of Mapfungautsi state forest and forest-adjacent communities in Gokwe, Zimbabwe.
Supervisor: Dr James Gambiza
Email: mutekwat@msu.ac.zw
Name: Jim Saunders
Research project title: Application of methods for imputing economic value to ecological factors at a microeconomic scale: A case study of the Knysna River.
Supervisor: Professor Fred Ellery
Email: jim.saunders@pixie.co.za
Name: Daniel Angwenyi
Research project title: Biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Supervisor: Dr James Gambiza
Email: danielangwenyi@gmail.com
Name: Manyewu Mutamba
Research project title: Influence of distance to markets on Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) commercialisation.
Supervisor: Professor Charlie Shackleton
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