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Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser

Supervised dissertations (chronological)

Dr. Juliane Dame 2012

  • Ernährungssicherung im Hochgebirge: Eine akteursorientierte Studie in Ladakh, Nordindien
    Forschungsprojekt: Food security in Ladakh - Subsistence-oriented resource utilisation and socioeconomic transformation; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), NU102 / 7-1 and 7-2

Dr. Lars Stöwesand 2012

  • Hidden displacement: The hidden nature and neglect of conflict-induced displacement during the Maoist people's war in Nepal
    [Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Kurt-Hiehle Stiftung, Eigenfinanzierung]

Martin Gerwin

  • Changing Strategies of Resource Use in the Borderland of the Kumaon Himalaya, India
    Forschungsprojekt: Changing Strategies of Resource Use: The 'Bhotiyas' in the High Mountain Border Region of Uttarakhand, India; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), NU102 / 10-1 and 10-2 Abstract

Dr. Ravi Baghel 2013

Dr. Alexander Erlewein 2014

  • Wasserkraftentwicklung in Himachal Pradesh, Indien: Zwischen globalem Klimaschutz und lokalen Umweltveränderungen
    Forschungsprojekt: Large Dams and ‘Clean Development’: Transcultural Narratives about Global Environmental Change and their Asymmetric Impacts; Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe", C8
    Kumulative Dissertation

Dr. Paul Roden 2014

  • Socio-political change and development interventions in Laikipia County, Kenya
    Forschungsprojekt: Semi-arid areas in transition: Livelihood security, socio-ecological variability and the role of development interventions in East Africa (Volkswagen Foundation)

Dr. Thomas Lennartz 2015

  • Naturgefahren und alltägliche Risiken der Lebenssicherung: Verwundbarkeit gegenüber gravitativen Massenbewegungen in Nepal
    Forschungsprojekt: Landslide Hazard and Vulnerability: Unsafe Conditions in the Middle Hills of Nepal; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) NU102 / 12-1

Dr. Anne Ulrich 2015

  • Livelihood dynamics in tropical drylands: Mixed farming, water management and market integration in Laikipia, Kenya
    Forschungsprojekt: Semi-arid areas in transition: Livelihood security, socio-ecological variability and the role of development interventions in East Africa (Volkswagen Foundation)

Dr. Aditya Ghosh 2016

  • Cursed waters: Climate calamities and subaltern sustainability in Indian Sundarbans
    Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch DAAD

Dr. Carina Zang 2018

  • Socio-hydrological Perspectives on Water Quality in an Arid Mountain Catchment: The Case of the Upper Huasco Valley, Chile, Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch Nachwuchsgruppe Dr. Juliane Dame (HCE)

Dr. Julia Poerting 2018

  • Practicing Organic Farming in Pakistan: Debating Science, Sustainability and Localism in an Alternative Agriculture
  • Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch Excellenzcluster der Universität Heidelberg

Dr. Johannes Anhorn 2019

  • Disaster Resilience in Nepal: From problem statement to prospective institutional transformation

Dr. Sitara Parveen 2019

  • Socio-hydrological nexus of mountain agriculture in Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan
    Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch Schlumberger Foundation

Dr. Judith Müller 2021

  • Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya – The Transformation of Hydro-Social Relations
    Forschungsprojekt finanziert durch Nachwuchsgruppe Dr. Juliane Dame (HCE)

Dr. Maike Petersen 2021

  • Producing charcoal in a sub-Saharan dryland. The case of Pokot Central, Kenya
    Forschungsprojekt: Producing Charcoal in the Sub-Saharan Drylands: The Contested Fuelscape of Central Pokot, Kenya (NU 102/14-1)