Alumni by field of research: Livelihoods & Globalisation

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

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

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Department of Geography Zürich
University of Zurich
Zürich, Switzerland

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

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

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

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

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

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