Head of the Dept. Ass. Prof. Gry Synnevåg
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Gry Synnevåg, Ph.D. Head of Department, Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 22 (gry.synnevag*at*umb.no) > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Kjell Esser, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of Education Phone: +47 64 96 53 19 (kjell.esser*at*umb.no) Professional interests: environmental sciences, soil and water in ecosystems, soil productivity and conservation, watershed management, irrigation, land degradation and rehabilitation, terrestrial pollution, environmental impact assessment. > Curriculum vitae > Publications Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam, Ph.D. Professor of Development Studies Head of Research Phone: +47 64 96 55 08 (n.shanmugaratnam*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Political Economy and Institutional Economics; Policy and institutional aspects of rural development, Reconstruction of war-affected societies, Natural resource management. > Curriculum vitae > Publications > Selected articles and lectures
Jens B. Aune, Dr. Scient. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 23 (jens.aune*at*umb.no) Professional interests: agro-ecology, Integrated Plant Nutrition Management, carbon sequestration and rural development, bio-economical modeling and linkages agricultural development and environment. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Tor Arve Benjaminsen, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 16 (t.a.benjaminsen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Drylands, land tenure, environmental narratives, political ecology, environmental history. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Trygve Berg, Dr. Scient. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 18 (trygve.berg*at*umb.no) Professional interests: genetic resources, sustainable production systems. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Cassandra Bergstrøm, Ph.D. Associate Professor Coordinator for UMB's "Health and Development" programme Phone: +47 64 96 55 18 (cassandra.bergstrom*at*umb.no) Professional interests: health and development, environmental health, rights and obligations, access, property issues, animate property, rule regimes, indigenous studies, inter-disciplinarity. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Ian Bryceson, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 07 (ian.bryceson*at*umb.no) Professional interests: coastal and marine ecology, aquaculture, aquatic resource management, integrated coastal zone management. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Bill Derman Professor (consultancy basis) Phone: +47 64 96 53 09; Cell: 90217113 (bill.derman*at*umb.no) Professional interests: agrarian change, land and water reform, human rights, Southern and West Africa, resettlement. > Curriculum vitae > Publications > Conference presentations: Troubled Rivers: Power, Race and the Struggles over Zimbabwe's Waters. Bill Derman, Michigan State University and the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, the Norwegian University of the Life Sciences. Paper to be presented at the workshop on Political Economies of Displacement in post-2000 Zimbabwe, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, June 9-11th 2008.
Lars Olav Eik Associate Professor (80%) Phone: +47 64 96 51 82 (lars.eik*at*umb.no) Professional interests: small ruminant nutrition and production systems both in temperate and tropical countries. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Siri Eriksen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (siri.eriksen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Social vulnerability to environmental change, in particular climatic variability and extremes such as droughts and floods. > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB / UiO
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad Dr. Oecon., Professor (10%) Phone: +47 40450010 (Odd.Fjeldstad*at*cmi.no) Keywords: Corruption, public finance management, tax reforms, budgetary processes, local government reform, fiscal decentralisation, project evaluation Geographic keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa , The Middle East and Northern Africa , Africa: Angola, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia. Middle East: Palestine > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Stig Jarle Hansen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (stig.hansen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Ruth Haug, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 36 (ruth.haug*at*umb.no) Professional interests: rural development studies with focus on agriculture, food- and livelihood security; hunger, peace and violent conflicts, forced migration, sustainable use and management of natural resources; agricultural extension, participation and community development . > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Fred Håkon Johnsen, Dr. Scient. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 17 (fred.johnsen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: resource economics in development studies, project appraisal (cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis), smallholder farmer development. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Darley Jose Kjosavik, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 12 (darley.kjosavik*at*umb.no) Professional interests: > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Randi Kaarhus, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 27 (randi.kaarhus*at*umb.no) Professional interests: science and politics, local knowledge, biodiversity, democracy and accountability, participatory approaches, discourse analysis. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Thor S. Larsen, Dr. Philos. Researcher (consultancy basis) Phone: +47 64 96 53 13 (office); +47 90 92 92 82 (mobile) (thor.s.larsen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: ecological research, wildlife population dynamics and management, management of protected areas and buffer zones, community participation in development, environmental impact assessment. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Esben Leifsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 04 (esben.leifsen*at*umb.no) Professional interests: indigenous rights and natural resource extraction, indigenous economy and globalization, human rights based development and accountability, marginalization/poverty and reproductive governance, transnational migration, child welfare and child rights, ethno politics and multiculturalism, multi-sited fieldwork methodology. > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Lyla Mehta, Ph.D. Professor II (20%) Phone: +47 64 96 53 03; (lyla.mehta*at*umb.no and L.Mehta*at*ids.ac.uk ) > Curriculum vitae
Stein R. Moe, Ph.D. Professor (20%) Phone: +47 64 96 53 21 (stein.moe*at*umb.no) Professional interests: wildlife ecology, plant/animal interactions, spatial and temporal ecosystem dynamics, human wildlife relations, conservation issues. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Synne Movik, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow Phone: +47 64 96 53 05; (synne.movik*at*umb.no) Professional interests: > Curriculum vitae > Publications at UMB
Knut Nustad, PhD. Associate Professor (20%) Phone: +47 64 96 53 33 (knut.nustad*at*umb.no) Professional interests: political anthropology, development discourses, poverty discourses, epistemology of policy, formal/informal organisation. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Ingrid Nyborg, PhD. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 37 (ingrid.nyborg*at*umb.no) Professional interests: gender, resource management, food and livelihood security, social networks, participation, mountain communities. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Gufu Oba, Dr. Philos. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 09 (gufu.oba*at*umb.no) Professional interests: range management, ecosystem, pastoralism and pastoral development, climate change and the rangelands, pastoral production, droughts, range ecology, environmental history, indigenous knowledge of pastoral peoples, local communities participation in environmental conventions. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Bishal K. Sitaula, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 25 (bishal.sitaula*at*umb.no) Professional interests: global change, greenhouse gases, carbon sequestration, land degradation, ecosystem restoration, soil erosion, watershed management, soil quality, water quality, soil pollution. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Clive L. Spash, Ph.D. Professor II (20%) Phone: 64 96 52 03 (clive.spash*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Public policy with specific emphasis on environmental problems. Theoretical work on the science-policy interface, political economy, governance, institutions, human motivation, value and ethics. Interdisciplinarity with work covering interactions between economics, applied philosophy, social psychology and political science. Applications in the areas of biodiversity, climate change, water management and air pollution. For more information look here... > Curriculum vitae; clivespash.org > Publications
Arild Vatn, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 57 10 (arild.vatn*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Theoretical work in institutional and ecological economics. Empirical areas of interest: Environmental governance, policies related to global warming and biodiversity protection, pollution control, land management, conflict management and multifunctional agriculture. > Curriculum vitae > UMB Competence Catalogue > Publications
Pål Vedeld, Ph.D. Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 07 (pal.vedeld*at*umb.no) Professional interests: resource economics, planning and management, policy instrument analysis and use, conflicts, interdisciplinarity and the environment, peasant household adaptation, deforestation, institutions and land use, common pool resources (CPR). > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Mensur Vegara, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 53 16 (mensur.vegara*at*umb.no) Mobile phone: +47 906 38 884 Professional interests: Animal breeding, animal production, farming systems; Programme and project co-ordination and management; Institutional cooperation; Agricultural engineering and consulting. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Poul Wisborg, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (poul.wisborg*at*umb.no) Professional interests: political ecology, environmental history, human rights, land reform, natural resource management, institutional cooperation. > Curriculum vitae > Publications
Staff on extended leave:
- Gunnvor Berge, Ph.D. (until August 2012). Associate Professor
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Marianne Aasen (Norway) Research fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (marianne.aasen*at*umb.no) Research topic: Can a combination of policy instruments increase the effectiveness and public acceptability of environmental policies? Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn
Øyvind Eggen (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 6496 5200 (oyvind.eggen*at*umb.no); Cell phone: 93038721 Research topic: State formation and the impact of foreign aid. Supervisor(s): Knut Nustad (Noragric) and Stein S. Eriksen (NUPI)
Lydia Gaspare (Tanzania) Research fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (lydia.gaspare*at*umb.no) Research topic: The effects of increased fishing pressure on the ecological resilience of targeted groupers (Serranidae) and analysis of impacts on livelihoods in fishing communities of Mafia Island, Tanzania. Supervisor(s): Ian Bryceson and Dr. Albogast Kamukuru (Univ. of Dar es Salaam)
Lars Kåre Grimsby (Norway) Research fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (lars.grimsby*at*umb.no) Research topic: Biofuels and acces to energy in rural livelihoods in East Africa. Supervisor(s): Jens Aune
Mohamed Ali Guyo Research fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 53 21(mohamed.guyo*at*umb.no) Research topic: The shifting sands of the Horn of Africa politics: Evolution and securitization of Islamism in Somalia. Supervisor(s): N. Shanmugaratnam and Knut Nustad
Marit Heller Research fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 53 29 (marit.heller*at*umb.no) Research topic: Preliminary title: Environmental policy and human action Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn
Eirin Hongslo (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (eirin.hongslo*at*umb.no) Research topic: Perceptions of landscape changes among stock farmers in Namaqualand, South Africa. Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen Professional interests: land reform, political ecology, environmental history, natural resource management.
Zeinabu Khalif (Kenya) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 55 10 (zeinabu.khalif*at*umb.no) Research topic: The Waso Borana: Transformation of Pastoral Production and Strategies of Poverty Alleviation. Supervisor(s): Prof. Gufu Oba and Prof. Gudrun Dahl
Kashif Saeed Khan (Pakistan) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 53 43 (kashif.khan*at*umb.no ) Research topic: Development narratives, security and livelihood realities in Pakistan's Northe West Frontier Province. Supervisor(s): Ingrid Nyborg, N. Shanmugaratnam and Darley Kjosavik
Sayuni Mariki Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (sayuni.mariki*at*umb.no) Research topic: Participatory aspects of Enduimet Wildlife Management Area and Kilimanjaro National Park in villages on the western slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen ans Hanne Svarstad (NINA)
Victoria Moshy (Tanzania) Research fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (victoria.moshy*at*umb.no) Research topic: Socio-ecological Changes in the Livelihoods of Fishing Communities in the Current Epoch of Globalisation: A Case of Mafia Island, Tanzania. Supervisor(s): Ian Bryceson, Knut Nustad and Rose Mwaipopo (Univ. of Dar es Salaam)
Joseph Perfect Mrema (Tanzania) Research fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (joseph.mrema*at*umb.no) Research topic: Opportunities and challenges of linking forest conservation and livelihoods in community based forest management: The case of Duru- Haitemba Forest Reserve. Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen Sigrid Nagoda(Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 6496 5200 (sigrid.nagoda*at*umb.no) Research Topic: The effects of humanitarian interventions on climate vulnerability- repeated food distribution and seed security in North Western Nepal Supervisor(s): Siri Eriksen
Amos Robert Ngwira (Malawi) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 53 43 (Robert.ngwira*at*umb.no) Research topic: Conservation Agriculture in Malawi and assessment of agronomic, economic and social factors. Supervisor(s): Jens Aune
Progress Hanzwida Nyanga (Zambia) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (progress.nyanga*at*umb.no) Research topic: Reversing household food insecurity through conservation agriculture: Socio-economic impact of conservation farming practices among small scale farmers in Zambia. Supervisor(s): Fred H. Johnsen and Jens Aune
Christin Ormhaug(Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 53 12 (christin.ormhaug*at*umb.no) Research topic: Health Effects of Civil War. Supervisor(s): Espen Sjaastad and Håvard Hegre (PRIO)
Simon Pahle (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 53 12 (simon.pahle*at*umb.no) Professional interests: Human rights in the global political economy; WTO and IFIs; corporate social responsibility; conditionality and democracy promotion in ethnically divided polities. Research topic: After Doha: Bringing the Workers' Rights Back In? Discourses and Politics of Fortifying Core Labour Standards Through an ILO-WTO Social Clause. Supervisor(s): Prof. Bill Derman and Prof. N. Shanmugaratnam
Jon Geir Petursson (Iceland) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (jon.petursson*at*umb.no) Research topic: Institutional analysis of transboundary biodiversity management: Protected areas on Mt. Elgon, Uganda and Kenya. Supervisor(s): Pål Vedeld
Kjersti Thorkildsen(Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 53 43 (kjersti.thorkildsen*at*umb.no) Research topic: Between conservation and development: Quilombola communities’ struggle over resources in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil. Supervisor(s): Randi Kaarhus
Frode Sundnes (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (frode.sundnes*at*umb.no) Research topic: Actors & Discourses: Conflicting Claims to the Dukuduku Forest,Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Supervisor(s): Knut Nustad, Tor Arve Benjaminsen and Espen Sjaastad
David Mwesigye Tumusiime (Uganda) Research Fellow - Development Studies Phone: +47 64 96 55 15; mob. 463 56 284 (mwesigye.tumusiime*at*umb.no) Research topic: The political ecology of conservation of the mountain Gorilla at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen, Espen Sjaastad, Pål Vedeld and Hanne Svarstad (NINA)
Waktole Tiki Uma (Ethiopia) Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (waktole.uma*at*umb.no) Research topic: Environmental and Social History of the Ancient Tula Wells, 1700- 2008: Dynamics and Human Responses. Supervisor(s): Gufu Oba and Terje Tvedt (UiB)
Bridget Bwalya Umar (Zambia) Research fellow - Development Studies Phone: 64 96 52 00 (bridget.bwalya*at*umb.no) Research topic: From Maize Monocropping to Conservation Agriculture: A Multi-perspective Analysis of Smallholder Conservation Agriculture in Southern, Central and Eastern Zambia. Supervisor(s): Jens B. Aune and Fred H. Johnsen
Hege Wallevik (Norway) Research Fellow - Development Studies E-mail: hege.wallevik*at*agderforskning.no Phone: 480 10 543 Research topic: Transgressing Economic Boundaries: Gender, Commodification and Social Change in Zanzibar. Supervisor(s): Kjersti Larsen and Ian Bryceson
