SESAM PhD Projects

Ongoing PhD Projects

Andrew Miccolis (PhD Candidate)
The role of agroforestry in reconciling livelihoods, forests, and water in the Brazilian Amazon: paths towards a paradigm shift in oil palm production.

Lisa Best (PhD Candidate)
Exploring multi-scale influences of forest disturbance on the Forest-Water-People nexus in Suriname.

Alemu Debay (PhD Candidate)
Exploring drivers and stakeholder perceptions of land-use change dynamics and lake eutrophication; the case of Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

Finalized PhD Projects

Federico Andreotti (2022).
Games and sustainable futures for agrobiodiversity and smallholder farmer organizations.

Rika Ratna Sari (2023).
Managing tree diversity for social-ecological resilience: Cacao and coffee agroforestry patterns, processes, and games.

Gildas Assogba (2024).
The biomass challenge: A systems approach to analyze biomass production and flows in the semi-arid zone of Burkina Faso.

Charles Nduhiu Wamucii (2024).
Water resources (re-)distribution from East African forested water towers: Regional, local, and stakeholders’ perspectives.

Margaret Githinji (2024).
Relational rationality in land- and water-use: Facing Mount Kenya in times of change.

Lisa Tanika (2024).
Human appropriation of water resources in a multifunctional landscape: Issues, models, games, and responsibilities.

Ali Yansyah Abdurrahim (2024).
Political ecology of peat landscape dynamics in Indonesia: Access, values, and collective action.

Elisabeth G. Lagneaux (2025).
The changing face of smallholder farming: Insights from an Amazonian landscape in transition.

Paulina Rosero Añazco (2025).
Relationally Shaped Landscapes. Land-use change and deforestation in Ecuadorian tropical forests.