The Natural Environment Research Council
Tag: NERC
Andrew Dobson
Andy is using agent based models to explore how ranger patrols and poachers interact, and what this means for protected area management.
Harriet Ibbett
Harriet's work in eastern Cambodia focuses on understanding hunting in a tropical forest ecosystem.
Learning From Observational Data To Improve Protected Area Management
Law enforcement is an essential part of Protected Area (PA) management. This project aims to determine how patrol data can best be analysed by PA managers to monitor enforcement effort, inform future patrolling strategies, and motivate rangers.
Contesting elephants: behavioural interventions in conservation conflicts
Zac's PhD project uses experimental approaches to study conservation conflicts in northern Tanzania
Zac Baynham-Herd
Zac’s PhD explores how conflicts are conceptualised and how conservationists intervene to resolve them, focusing on a Wildlife Management Area in Northern Tanzania as a case-study.
Using game theory for understanding and managing conservation conflict
Chris's PhD research uses frameworks from common-pool resource literature and game theory to explore conflict over goose numbers in the Scottish islands.
Chris Pollard
Chris’s research is focused on studying the way people in conservation conflicts make decisions.
CONSERVATION SCIENCE 