阿伯丁大学招收农业科学博士

阿伯丁大学招收农业科学博士

About the Project

This project will work with existing EBRM projects in Madagascar to address questions such as

(i) what are the perceived and real costs of rodent impacts on crop income, food security and health?

(ii) how does the impact depend on rodent abundance at local and landscape scales?

(iii) how do individual farmers balance economic and health considerations when taking management decisions?

(iv) what are the physical, economic and behavioural barriers to the adoption of appropriate management practices?

(v) how do approaches to risk and uncertainty influence/constrain community-level actions?

(vi) how does the cost-effectiveness of different management options compare and how does this depend on spatial ecological processes and spatial differences in management control costs and economic impacts?

The project will work with teams in the field to quantify rodent impacts and assess the costs (direct and indirect) of alternative management strategies. The student will also use experimental economic approaches to investigate attitudes towards risk, uncertainty and community-action, and adapt existing simple agent-based models to capture the spatial ecological and economic interactions.

Candidate background: The project will suit a student with a background in economics, ecology or development studies. The student will receive thorough multidisciplinary training, including in the collection of ecological and economic data, statistical analyses and modelling. The relative importance of the different project components will depend on the interests of the student. An honours degree in economics, ecology or a related field is expected, and an MSc in these fields is desirable but not essential.

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