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Diana Liverman: Graduate Supervision
By Diana Liverman | Updated Dec 30, 2010
a. Doctoral students
At the University of Arizona I now supervise doctoral students through the School of Geography and Development (http://geography.arizona.edu). The University of Arizona is a good choice for those interested in political ecology, Latin America, water, climate impacts, adaptation and/or Latin America and border issues (with several geography faculty and many others across campus in those areas). I no longer accept DPhil students through Oxford although I maintain a link with the Environmental Change Institute and may be willing to act as secondary supervisor for a very small number of students. I rarely, if ever, accept students outside of my current research interests in Latin American environmental issues or climate impacts and policy because I believe that doctoral research requires expert supervision.
b. Masters Students
I will be teaching modules on the MSc programmes in environment (e.g. ECM, NSEP) at Oxford in autumn/fall 2011 and 2012 and hope to stay involved with students in these programmes who share my research interests. At Arizona I anticipate I will sit on a few Masters committees in Geography and Development and I am involved in planning a one year professional Masters in Environmental Management to start in Aug 2012 or 2013.
c. Research topics
Although I may be willing to accept highly motivated students to work on certain research topics where they have a strong background most of my students work on issues that relate to my current research interests and projects.
These include:
- Climate policy and impacts in Mexico and Latin America
- Climate and development with a focus on governing adaptation
- Critical perspectives on climate governance
- Carbon offsets/CDM/REDD in Latin America
- Climate, poverty and environmental justice (southwest US and Mexico)
- Climate and the arts
Current Graduate Students
Arizona
Eric Holthaus PhD
Christina Greene PhD
Dan Ferguson PhD (co supervised with Connie Woodhouse)
Oxford
Juan Carlos Arrendondo. Adaptation to climate change in Mexico: reducing the barriers and maximising the benefits of corporate and government responses.
Christian Ellerman. Climate change policy in China: Tracing successful sustainable development policies and measures
Deborah Ley. Sustainable development, climate change and renewable energy in rural Central America: Mainstreaming climate into development in Latin America
Carolina Schmidt. Avoiding deforestation and the geography of law in the Brazilian Amazon (supervisor Connie Mc Dermott)
Former students
Laura Pulido. M.A. 1987. Geography. University of Wisconsin. "Farmworkers perceptions of pesticide hazards in Kern county, California." (Professor of Geography, University of Southern California)
Altha Cravey. M.A. 1988. Geography. University of Wisconsin. "Social indicators in Mexico." (Associate Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina)
Ben Champion. Local food networks in Kansas 2006. Oxford. (Sustainability Director Kansas State)
Maxx Dilley. PhD. 1993. Geography. The Pennsylvania State University. "Climate and agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico." (UNDP Crisis Recovery)
Anke Wessels-Beyer. PhD 1995. Geography. The Pennsylvania State University "Social and Environmental Reconstruction in Eastern Germany." (Program Director, Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy, Cornell University)
Karen O'Brien. Ph.D. 1996. Geography. The Pennsylvania State University. " Deforestation and Climate Change in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico." (Faculty University of Oslo)
Graeme Burt. MA 1996. Geography. The Pennsylvania State University. "Land use change in Alamos, Sonora." (Consultant, Vancouver, Canada)
David Rain. Ph.D. 1997. Geography. The Pennsylvania State University. "Eaters of the Dry Season." (Faculty in Geography, George Washington University)
Ane Schjolden. MA 1999. Geography and Regional Development. University of Arizona (Beth Mitchnek, co-supervisor). "Globalization, Liberalization and Restructuring of the Brazilian telecommunications industry: the end of technological capability." (Norway, Forum for Environment and Development)
Kimi Eisele. MA 1999. University of Arizona. Geography and Regional Development. "Landscapes of Solidarity: The children of Colonia Solidaridad, Nogales, Sonora."(writer, Tucson).
Laura Paulson. MA 1999. Latin American Studies. University of Arizona. "Globalization and survival of the smallholder: the role of agricultural restructuring in land use change in Michoacan, Mexico." (Nature Conservancy)
Annika Hipple. MA 2000. Latin American Studies, University of Arizona. "Environment and the media in Mexico" (writer, Seattle)
Margaret Wilder. PhD 2002. University of Arizona, Department of Geography and Regional Development. "In name only: water policy, the state and ejidatario producers in Northern Mexico" (Associate Professor, Latin American Studies, University of Arizona)
Hallie Eakin. PhD 2002. Geography, University of Arizona. "Rural Households' Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Institutional Change: Three Cases from Central Mexico". (Associate Professor of Geography, Arizona State University)
Mrill Ingram, PhD 2004. University of Arizona, Department of Geography and Regional Development. "Experts in the field: the contributions of farmers and other lay experts to knowledge about soil in US agriculture" (Researcher, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Karen Suasanna, MSc 2004. Oxford. Social movements and recycling in Sao Paulo, Brasil. (WWF climate policy coordinator, Brazil)
Ghinwa Chammas, MSc 2004. Oxford, Student perceptions of Climate change.
Carolina Fuentes, MSc 2004. Oxford. CDM in Mexico. (Mexico, Energy Ministry)
Katherine Meehan, MSc 2005. Oxford.Streamlining the state? Power, decentralisation, and water at work in Guatemala. (Faculty, Oregon)
Anthony Knox, MSc 2005, Oxford. Economics of Marine Protected Areas in Mexico. (MSc African Studies, Oxford)
Heidi Hausermann, MSc 2005. Arizona. The Coffee Crisis and Land Use change in Veracruz.(Faculty, Rutgers)
Dereka Rushbrook, PhD 2005. Arizona. Carving a Niche: Artisans in a Global Economy. Commodity Chain Analysis of Rustic Pine Furniture in Mexico (Lecturer , University of Arizona)
Lydia Breunig. PhD 2006. Arizona. Conservation in Context: Establishing Natural Protected Areas During Mexico's Neoliberal Reformation (Development Officer, Sonoran Institute)
John Gates. PhD. 2006. Oxford. Groundwater recharge and paleohydrology of the Badain Jaran, NW China. (Primary supervisor Mike Edmunds) Faculty Texas A&M.
Blanca Raymundo Garcia. Msc 2006. Oxford. The potential for Clean Development Mechanism projects in the Mexican industrial sector: a case study of the cement industry. (Consultant, Mexico)
Sapna Thottathil. MSc 2006. Oxford. Fairtrade's Carbon Emissions: What's Its Share, and Do People Care? (PhD student, UC Berkeley)
Johannes Ebeling. Msc 2006. Oxford.Tropical deforestation and climate change - Ways towards an international mitigation strategy. (Ecosecurities)
John Cole. PhD 2009. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): Foreign investment in sustainable infrastructure in developing countries (Attorney, Canada)
Adam Bumpus. PhD 2009. Carbon Development: a political ecology analysis of carbon offset projects for local development and global climate benefits (postdoc, UBC/Lecturer Univ Melbourne).
Simon Billet. MSc 2009. CDM and wind in Oaxaca, Mexico (UNDP, NY)
Natasha Kuruppu. PhD 2010. Climate Change and Variability in the Pacific Region: Piloting Adaptation Strategies to Facilitate Sustainable Development in the Water Sector of Kiribati. (Adaptation Researcher, Sydney, Aus)
Alex Noriega Guerra. PhD 2010.Weather-related disaster risk in mountain areas: The Guatemalan highlands at the start of the 21st Century. (Director, Climate institute Guatemala)
Katharine Wilkinson. PhD 2010. 'God-made' Heaven and Earth... 'Man-made' climate change: American evangelical discourses on global climate change'. Consultant, US.
Antony Millner PhD 2010. Managing climate risk in the developing world: Information and Insurance (Postdoc UC Berkeley).
Bernardo Peredo. PhD 2010. Biodiversity, local development and poverty alleviation in Bolivia in a market economy: Irreconcilable Differences or Windows of Opportunity? (Researcher, Canadian Embassy, Bolivia)
Alex Morel. PhD 2010. Land use change and sustainable palm oil in Malaysia (Supervisor Yadvinder Malhi) (Researcher, CIESIN, NY)
Allen Shaw PhD 2010 (Supervisor Brenda Boardman) Does a coherent energy plan exist for India?
Dave Stainforth. PhD 2010 Uncertainty and confidence in predictions of climate change (co supervised with Mark New) (Lecturer LSE)
Erika Trigoso. Vulnerability to drought and community adaptation in the Andean high-plateau. Hazard vulnerability and GIS in Peru (Lecturer U Colorado Denver)
Joel Scriven. Carbon forestry on an Amazonian frontier: Barriers and Opportunities (cosupervised with Yadvinder Malhi) (FAO REDD researcher)
Ame Ramos Castillo. Water Governance in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico (UNU)
Arnoldo Matus Kramer. Adaptation to Climate Change in the Tourism Sector of the Rapidly Urbanizing Yucatan Caribbean Coast
Former Postdocs
Maria Carmen Lemos (Prof, Univ Michigan)
Marcella Vasquez (Prof, Univ of Arizona)
Heather Lovell (Lecturer, Univ of Edinburgh)
Max Boykoff (Prof, Univ of Colorado)
Heike Schroeder (Prof, UEA)
Tracey Osborne (Prof, Univ of Arizona)