Canada Research Chair - Centre for Community-Based Resource Management (Updated August 2013)

Students - in progress

Assuah, Anderson, MNRM candidate (Advisor: A. John Sinclair) Sustainable Community Forestry

Bockstael, Erika, PhD candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes) Capacity building in Paraty area (Brazil) communities toward co-management of coastal resources

Chimello de Oliveira, Luiz, PhD candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes, Co-advisor: A. Begossi) Drivers of change and scenarios of the future in Paraty, Brazil

Deutsch, Nathan, PhD Candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes; Co-advisor: I. Davidson-Hunt)
Knowledge and institutions that connect people to the land: First Nations in the Whitefeather Forest Planning area, NW Ontario

Dupre, Iain, MNRM candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes) Ecotourism management in protected areas

Galappaththi, Eranga Kokila, MNRM candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes) Community-based prawn aquaculture in Sri Lanka

Hostetler, Glen, PhD candidate (Advisor: J. Sinclair) Public participation in natural resources and environmental management and its connection to deliberative democracy

Idrobo, Carlos Julian, PhD candidate (Advisor: I. Davidson-Hunt)
Caicaran Landscapes of Practice: Adaptive Learning, Harvesting, Natural Resource Access and Well-being in Paraty, SE Coastal Brazil

Islam, Durdana, PhD candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes) Enhancing community food security through food business development in Aboriginal communities, Northern Manitoba

Jandreau, Connor, MNRM candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes) Integrating co-knowledge systems for participatory monitoring of wildlife and rangeland conditions in the Maasai Mara ecosystem, Kenya

Leite, Marta, PhD candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes) Local ecological knowledge and women's contributions to ecosystem-based fisheries management

Miretski, Inna, MNRM candidate (Advisor: I. Davidson-Hunt) Encouraging cross-cultural collaboration through a fun and interactive interpretation experience in the Interpretive Forest, Kenora <>Patton, Eva, MNRM candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes) Arctic Climate Change: Cultural continuance, community, and institutions

Penner, Robert, PhD candidate (Advisor: I Davidson-Hunt, Co-advisor: J. Sinclair) Place-based learning communities and engaged institutions of higher education

Peterson, Debora, PhD candidate (Advisor: F. Berkes) Terrestrial resources and community-based conservation in Paraty, Brazil: an analysis of their local rules, territories, agreements and conflicts

Sylvester, Olivia, PhD candidate (Advisor: I. Davidson-Hunt) Understanding resilience building mechanisms: linking knowledge, land-use practice, and biodiversity

Turner, Katherine, PhD candidate (Advisor: I. Davidson-Hunt) Feeding local economies? Bolivia's edible biocultural heritage

Yunus, D., Master of Environment candidate (Advisor: M. Hanson; Co-advisor: T. Henley) Analysis of the quality of drinking water for domestic consumption in Kumul City, Xinjiang Province, China

Zurba, Melanie, PhD candidate (Advisor: J. Sinclair) Building Common Ground: Cross-cultural Communications and Transformative Learning for Shared Governance