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PhD thesis: Enrichment of recycled waste for maize (Zea mays L.) cultivation and its effects on the soil environment (completed in 2011)

PhD Thesis: Transdisciplinary Co-Production of Knowledge in the Development of Organic Agriculture in Switzerland

PhD thesis: Migration, Employment and Poverty: A Case Study of Delhi Slums (completed in 2009)

PhD thesis: The national and indigenous management of environmental conflicts, Savannah Belt, Sudan (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: La Reserva Comunal Amarakaeri, Deforestacion y Gobernancia (completed in 2011)

PhD thesis: Governancia y Conservacion en el Peru. Distribucion, uso y propiedad de la tierra en la Reserva Comunal Amarakaeri (completed in 2011)

PhD thesis: Integrated water resources management: Limits and potential in the municipality of El Grullo, Mexico (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Family strategies and community. Migration and socio-cultural processes in two rural communities of the Sierra Region, Chiapas. (completed in 2010)

PhD thesis: Ethiopia and the Nile: The Dilemma of National and Regional Hydro-Politics (completed in 2004)

PhD thesis: Water distribution and water use system of the Sokuluk River Basin - Contribution to sustainable water management in the Chuy Valley (Kyrgyzstan) (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Landscape transformation and Opportunities for Sustainable Land Management along the Eastern Escarpment of Wello (EEW), Ethiopia (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Land, Class, Ethnicity: Permutations of Environmental Conflicts in Two Districts of Assam (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Bewertung landschaftsrelevanter Projekte im Schweizer Alpenraum - die Methode der Discrete Choice-Experimente (completed in 2005)

PhD Thesis: Etude épidémiologique de la malnutrition en milieu nomade au Tchad: Diagnostic et Approche d’interventions

PhD thesis: Dangerous Divisions. Irrigation Disputes and Conflict Transformation in the Ferghana Valley (completed in 2006)

PhD Thesis: State of mind. Forest ownership, the private sphere and governance in reform-socialist transition - A case study in the Northern mountain region of Vietnam

PhD thesis: Traditional ecological knowledge, land use and ecosystem diversity in the Tunari National Park (Bolivia). An ethnoecological approach to dialogue between traditional and scientific ecological knowledge.
(completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: "En ville, chacun est dans son chacun". Une étude anthropologique sur l'importance des relations sociales en cas de maladie à Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire) (completed in 2003)

PhD Thesis: Gouvernance, participation et prédation: La gestion des ressources naturelles en Bolivie comme enjeux de pouvoirs

PhD thesis: Sustainable Land Management in the Tajik Pamirs: The Role of Knowledge for Sustainable Development (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Politique de conservation des forêts à Madagascar: du cadre institutionnel global aux pratiques locales (completed in 2010)

PhD Thesis:Analisis de la gestion de las politicas de saneamiento ambiental en asentamientos humanos en Costa Rica, periodo 1998-2006: Los casos de la Europa, San Martin y San Vicente

PhD thesis: Urbanisation, city design and the urban model in Western Africa: The position and stakes of the public space (completed in 2009)

PhD thesis: Randomized-controlled trial to assess the efficacy of the solar desinfection technology for water (completed in 2009)

PhD thesis: Luchas, prácticas asociativas y procesos de vinculación política en la zona metropolitana de Buenos Aires: Estudio de casos en cinco organizaciones territoriales vinculadas a la FTV (completed in 2008).

PhD thesis: Democratizing Global Environmental Governance : NGO's and Anean Biodiversity (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Urban Borderland Intermediation in the Dominican Republic: Three Case Studies (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: The deterioration of a deprived urban community: Yopougan (Abidjan): a study of the influence of physical conditions and deficiencies in liquid and solid waste management systems?[in French] (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Urban agriculture and operational mosquito larvae control: mitigating malaria risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (completed in 2009)

PhD thesis: Social dynamics and fertility management in deprived urban areas [in French] (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Potentials, Limitations and Risks of Geo-Information Technology for Sustainable Development Approaches in Kenya (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: The political economy of Khat in Ethiopia (completed in 2011)

PhD thesis: The Geography of Welfare. Spatial Dimensions of Poverty and Inequality in Vietnam (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: The impact of land use and climate on the river runoff of Sokuluk River Basin: a contribution to sustainable water management in Chui Valley (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Assessing the potential of organic farming for sustainable livelihoods in developing countries: The case of cotton in India (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Institutions de propriété collective et relations de pouvoir: Gestion des ressources, changements et conflits dans la plaine du Waza-Logone (Extrême-Nord Cameroun/Tchad) entre Kotoko et pasteurs nomades (completed in 2008)

PhD Thesis: Agricultural land use and associated nutrient flows in peri-urban production systems

PhD thesis: A participative system dynamics approach in a global research programme for sustainable development (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: La connaissance métisse. Une analyse de la politique de protection des connaissances traditionnelles au Pérou (completed in 2004)

PhD Thesis: Social and Territorial Impacts of Armed Conflict Induced Displacement and the Livelihoods of Internally Displaced Persons in Nepal

PhD thesis: Monitoring and Modeling Crop Growth, Water Use and Production Under Dry-Land Environment North-West of Mount Kenya (completed in 2005)

PhD thesis: ”It is the palu that tires me.” A study in medical anthropology of the local concepts and practices of malaria in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire [in French] (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Epidemiology of mycobacterial infection in animals and humans in pastoral areas of southern Ethiopia (completed in 2011)

PhD thesis: Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation Priorities with Livelihood Needs in Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Pastoral Conflict and Resource management in Ethiopia's Somali Region (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Patterns of Land Cover Change in the Lower Mekong Basin. The relevance of mesoscale approaches (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Formes d’intégration de l’économie dans les démocraties de marché : une théorie substantive à partir de l’étude du mouvement d’économie solidaire dans la ville d’El Alto (Bolivie) (completed in 2009)

PhD thesis: Molecular epidemiology of mycobacteria: Development and refinement of innovative molecular typing tools to study mycobacterial infections (completed in 2006)

PhD Thesis: Urban Water and Wastewater Management in Cochabamba (Bolivia): An Ecological and Institutional Analysis

PhD thesis: Land use changes and transnational migration: the impact of remittances in western Mexico (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: A Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems Approach for Environmental Decision-Support (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Legal and Institutional Framework for Empowerment of Rural Populations in the Kyrgyz Republic: Contribution to Sustainable Development (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Drought Vulnerability and Risk in Agro-Pastoral Areas - An Integrative Approach and its Application in Kenya (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Sexuality, Gender and Culture in the context of HIV/AIDS with special emphasis to the Borena Pastoral Community, Southern Ethiopia (completed in 2011)

PhD thesis: Exclusion, vulnerability, poverty and AIDS: the role of women’s organisations in a deprived urban area [in French] (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Brousse des uns, aire protégée des autres - Histoire du peuplement, perceptions de la nature et politique des aires protégées dans le Gourma burkinabè: l’exemple de la Réserve partielle de faune de Pama (completed in 2010)

PhD thesis: Transformations foncières et mutations sociales dans le delta du fleuve Sénégal: cas de la zone transfrontalière de Thiagar (Rosso Sénégal) et de M’pourié (Rosso Mauritanie) (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Combining photochemical and biological processes for the treatment of potential Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC) in water: physicochemical and engineering aspects (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Faecal sludge treatment by constructed wetlands (completed in 2008)

PhD Thesis: Méthodologies de diagnostic et d’analyse spatio-temporelle des problèmes de santé et d’environnement en relation avec la croissance urbaine à l’aide des SIG. Cas de l’arrondissement de Nongremassom, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

PhD thesis: Multi-dimensional Approaches to More Sustainable Natural Resources Management in Highly Dynamic Contexts in East Africa (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Vers uns assainissment urbain durable en Afrique Subsaharienne: Approche innovante de planification de la géstion des boues de vidange (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Evaluation des risques sanitaires en rapport avec l’urbanisation rapide d’Abidjan et la pollution lagunaire induite de long du village d’Azito (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Sociogenèse et dynamique du mouvement "jeune patriote" en Côte d'Ivoire (completed in 2011)

PhD thesis: Negotiating Sustainable Regional Development - The Relevance of Meaningful Spaces in Times of Change (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Double-edged hydropolitics on the Nile - Linkages between domestic water policy making and transboundary conflict and cooperation (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Análisis del uso y manejo del agroecosistema con enfasis en al actividad agrícola de los pueblos indigenas de Talamanca, Costa Rica : Un Enfoque agroecologico (completed in 2003)

PhD thesis: Ethnobiological Knowledge and its Transformation in the Andean Highlands: Case Studies from Peru and Bolivia (completed in 2011)

PhD thesis: The effect of irrigated urban agriculture on malaria, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in different settings of Côte d’Ivoire (completed in 2006)

PhD Thesis: The Impact of Institutional Changes on the Management of Common Pool Resources in Pangani River Basin in Same District, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

PhD thesis: Common Property Institutions and Relations of Power: Resource-Management, Change and Conflicts in the Rufiji River Floodplain in Tanzania (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Material Flow Analysis for Environmental Sanitation Planning in Developing Countries. An approach to assess material flow with imited data availability (completed in 2006)

PhD Thesis: Popular habitat, urban renewal and social mobilization in the centric barrios of Mexico City. - Habitat popular, renovacion urbana y movimientos sociales en barrios centricos de la ciudad de Mexico 1985-2006

PhD thesis: Developing Integrated Institutional Framework for Sustainable Watershed Management in Pangani River Basin, Tanzania (completed in 2010)

PhD thesis: Die Kraft der Bilder in der nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Fallbeispiele UNESCO Biosphäre Entlebuch und UNESCO Weltnaturerbe Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: The transformation of violent conflicts in pastoral areas of Ethiopia: an ethnography on the notion of conflict among the Karrayu of the Middle and Awash Valley (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Illness and Health among the Kel Tamasheq in Northern Mali

PhD thesis: Déforestation et droit coutumier à Madagascar (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: La régulation sociale des risques de catastrophe. Etude dans les quartiers périphériques ouest de la ville de La Paz, Bolivie (completed in 2009)

PhD thesis: Landlessness, Livelihood Insecurity and Social Conflict in Far Western Region of Nepal with a special focus on Dalits (completed in 2011)

PhD Thesis: Water-Related Environmental Services and Options for their Sustainable Use in Pangani Basin, East Africa

PhD thesis: GIS-based Estimation of Energy and Water Consumption, and Emissions Generated by Major Human Activities in Latin American Cities (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Santé, vulnérabilité et tuberculose en milieu nomade Sahélien – Contribution à l’étude des représentations et prises en charge de la tuberculose chez des populations nomades de la Mauritanie et du Tchad: Approche comparative (completed in 2008)

PhD Thesis: Constructed wetland for faecal sludge treatment

PhD thesis: Land degradation in selected landscapes of semi-arid zones in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: indicators, processes, dynamics and consequences for mitigation (completed in 2005)

PhD thesis: Villes à la frontière et transformation de l'espace: le cas de Haiti et la république dominicaine (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Exploring the meaning of money: a study of the impact of microfinance in the Koppal District of India (completed in 2004)

PhD Thesis: Sustainable Livelihood Pattern of Marginal Communities in a Peri-urban Area: A Case Study of Bajrayogini Village, Kathmandu District

PhD thesis: Un concept de monitoring participatif au service des villes en développement. Approche méthodologique et réalisation d'un observatoire urbain (completed in 2004)

PhD Thesis: La politica de riesgos en Bolivia y su articulacion en el espacio municipal (el caso de La Paz)

PhD thesis: Applications of anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) and vermicomposting process for treating household wastewater and accumulated sludge (completed in 2010)

PhD thesis: Applying a Material Flow Analysis Model to Assess River Water Pollution and Mitigation Potentials. A Case-Study in the Thachin River Basin, Central Thailand (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Human and animal health in nomadic pastoralist communities of Chad: zoonoses, morbidity and health services (completed in 2002)

PhD thesis: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in India: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Social and Economic Policies of the Centre and the States (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: Implementation of soil protection as social learning process (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Analysis of Institutional Changes in Forest Management and Their Impact on Rural Livelihood Strategies in NWFP, Pakistan (completed in 2006)

PhD thesis: The economics of shared irrigation water rights: alternative analytical framework and application to Ethiopia (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Livelihoods in transition: understanding current strategies, challenges and options for improvement (example of Sokuluk Rayon, Chui Valley, Kyrgyzstan) (completed in 2005)

PhD Thesis: Making a living in uncertainty - agro-pastoral livelihoods and institutional transformations in post-socialist rural Kyrgyzstan

PhD thesis: "We are Flexible as Rubber!" Livelihood Strategies, Diversity and the Local Institutional Setting of Rubber Small Holders in Kerala, South India (completed in 2007)

PhD Thesis: Integrated Pathogen Flow Analysis (PFA) and Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) for Health and Environmental Sanitation Planning

PhD thesis: Social Networks and Migration: Far West Nepalese labour Migrants in Dehli (completed in 2005)

PhD thesis: Epidemiology and economics of Bovine tuberculosis in Ethiopia (completed in 2008)

PhD Thesis: Ethnicity and livelihood practices at the confluence of the Local and the Global: a Study of Paniyas in Wyanad

PhD thesis: Gender, participatory governance and politics. A case study in a lower class urban settlement in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (completed in 2008)

PhD thesis: Social interventions and environmental impact assessment for sustainable pastoralism (completed in 2009)

PhD thesis: Land Use, Soil Degradation and Soil Conservation (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: Calf mortality and parasitism in periurban livestock production in Mali (completed in 2005)

PhD thesis: Citizenship, Nationality and History in Côte d'Ivoire, 1929-1999 (completed in 2010)

PhD thesis: Land Degradation and Options for Sustainable Land Management in the Lake Tana Basin (LTB), Amhara Region, Ethiopia (completed in 2007)

PhD thesis: La Crisis de los Espacios Públicos Urbanos en el Distrito Central (The Crisis of Urban Public Spaces in the Central District) (completed in 2011)