Spatial Distribution of Protected Area Benefits and Losses
The spatial distribution of benefits and losses accrued as a result of living next to a protected area in Uganda are presented, showing that some communities benefit while others accrue primarily losses...location matters when living near a national park in Uganda.
People-Park Strategies for Conservation Management
From protectionism to community natural resource management, this lecture discusses the different strategies for managing the interaction of people and protected areas.
Tourism Revenue Sharing
Investigating the tourism revenue sharing program in Uganda, this lecture discusses whether the objectives of the program are being met on the ground.
Societal Distribution of Protected Area Benefits and Losses
The issues about the equity of benefit and loss accrual between different household wealth classifications is investigated, including elite capture, poverty alleviation, and conservation incentives.
Human-Wildlife Conflict
The lecture covers the topics of crop raiding, predation, human injury and death as a result of protected animal attacks. Economic valuation of loss and people's perceptions of loss are presented along with means for addressing human-wildlife conflict such as mitigation and compensation.
The Global-Local Nexus of Biodiversity Conservation
This lecture looks at the global institutional process of biodiversity conservation and then juxtaposes these global initiatives with local impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Qualitative Methods
Covering issues of ethical field dilemmas, gatekeepers, research assistants, positionality, cross-language interpretation strategies, researcher fatigue, returning results and advocating for research participants, these lectures rely heavily on my field experiences in Uganda.
Project Management Tools for Graduate Researchers
This lecture transfers my years of project management experience from my aerospace engineering career and reworks it into a short set of tools to help graduate researchers assess the risk in their research project, manage logistics, timelines, budget and project tracking.