Studentships

ATREE offers studentships for doctoral research focusing on the following areas.

1. The effects of climate change in marginal habitats (a) tropical high mountain tops and forest canopies and (b) tropical forest-agricultural landscapes. Fellowships for interested students are available through an ATREE-Norwegian partnership project with Norwegian Agricultural University (NORAGRIC).
2. The impact of human mediated global change on biodiversity by developing taxonomic and landscape level databases, niche modeling, GIS and RS based analysis, and also contribute to the ecological informatics centre (www.ecoinfoindia.org) at ATREE. Student fellowships are available through the JRS Foundation.
3. Resource economics, and the history and anthropology of resource use cultures in natural and agricultural habitats. Student should conduct inter-disciplinary research that integrates knowledge from environmental history and ethnography with the natural sciences so as to implement and monitor tropical natural resource management and biodiversity conservation. Student fellowships are available through the ATREE-NORAGRIC partnership.
4. Ecology, conservation biology, ecosystem ecology, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods in the Eastern Himalayas and Assam. Fellowships for interested students are available through the Critical Ecosystem Project Fund (CEPF) for work in the Eastern Himalayas and the World Heritage Biodiversity Programme (WHBP) for work in Manas and Kaziranga National Parks in Assam. Students who originate from states in the north-eastern part of India are particularly encouraged to apply.
5. Economic policy and the valuation of ecosystem services; governance systems to support sustainable management of ecosystem services; governance and ecosystem management of coastal and marine systems; adaptive governance of dynamic land- and seascapes; governance and conservation of urban ecosystems. Research and student fellowships could be facilitated through ATREE's partnership with the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), Sweden, a new international centre established to promote transdisciplinary research.