All PhD Graduates

This dissertation examines how households, institutions, and policy frameworks respond to environmental risks, focusing on climate adaptation, risk communication, nature-based solutions, and drought impacts on land use.

This dissertation examines how fishers and fisheries institutions manage economic risk, focusing on income diversification, subsidies, and global market linkages in shaping fishers’ livelihoods and fish stock sustainability.

This dissertation investigates how cooperation and institutional arrangements emerge and persist in small-scale irrigation systems under climate change, focusing on how scarcity, inequality, and governance influence collective action among water users.

This dissertation examines how information, uncertainty, and human behavior influence cooperation and decision-making in fisheries management across informal community institutions and formal governance systems.