I advise you to get into topics related to rangeland economics and traditional animal husbandry and focus more on topics such as energy efficiency and productivity.
Dear Fati,
what about the influence of of Nature Conservation regime of some area on traditional local rural economy? Positives & negatives, and what to improve! can be good background even for diss for master degree ...
Andrey
I have not done my PhD yet. However,
For Ph.D. thesis, I might suggest you consider these things first:
1. Your MSc research background
2. Your field of interest
3. Expertise/interest of your supervisor in this topic
The choice of research topic is one of the central moments of a research process, and not just their chronological start. Not usually rush into convenient choice, but it is advisable excessively delayed at the stage of choosing a topic. Often enough to have a general idea taking shape that will go to work on it and have additional information.
To identify and choose the research topic these aspects must be considered:
1. Ensure that the chosen subject or problem is as limited as possible. Often the great general topics can not be used as research subjects and raise too broad projects may amount to not make any. The more the better restricted field work and be safer.
2. It is important to determine whether the chosen subject is a historical question or, on the contrary, a problem that requires a systematic treatment, a theoretical thesis. In exceptional cases it can be addressed an issue that requires only speculation or personal reflection, but bear in mind that this will require great maturity and a deep study the doctoral student is not always able to do. A theoretical thesis is a thesis that is proposed deal an abstract problem that could not be or, subject to other considerations: the human will, the concept of freedom ... In the hands of a student with a necessarily limited scientific expertise, these issues can only be successfully resolved well if that speculation about one or more authors is supported: the human will in Kant, the concept of freedom ...
3. It is very important to choose a research topic according to the preparation of the candidate and job opportunities. Among them, it is necessary to emphasize the accessibility to sources and bibliography necessary, the possibility of having a right direction in the course of the investigation, the level of prior knowledge required by the chosen theme, languages necessary to address the study with a sufficient rigor and time available. It is important to consider this aspect because there, mainly at the beginning of all research activity, overconfidence in our real possibilities.
4. The investigation concerns a recognizable object and defined so that also is recognizable by others. Define an object means defining the conditions under which we speak, from the doctoral student rules that establish (or others have previously established). Select the object or topic you choose, the doctoral student has to make clear the criteria that has made the choice of that particular object in that particular direction and explain why exclude others. The criteria must be reasonable and sense needs to be well defined.
5. Research has to say on this subject things that have not yet been spoken or review from a point of view different things that have already been said.
6. The theme should enter our area of theoretical interest. Our own interest help make an active and creatively proposed research work. It should be noted that research work requires several years of work and always goes through ups and downs of personal interest. The lack of personal interest in research is a lack that just appearing and could derail the work.
7. The choice of research topic is related to the need to explicitly formulate it, even when provisionally. Prior to the formulation of the research topic step can be very interesting to note all possible formulations of the chosen topic and related ideas.
This explanation from Gonzalo can be like abstract of every investigation! but we do not know the procedure at your Institution. At some universities list of titles, objects and area, as well the manner and order of student work is explained in special documents. Other question: YOU HAVE NO ANY GUIDENCE, SOME ASS. PROF THAT IS RESPONCIBLE FOR YOU? should ask him first because this all isn't enough correct ...
Andrey
One of the emerging concept is Ecosystem Services, which might be of your interest. Publications about this is booming so you can easily find on scientific data bases such as Scopus.
you can work on biofeul (biodeisel, bioethanol and biogas) natural resource in Iran and I can help you .
With best regards
Kiani
Ecosystem service is a good topic but is choose by onother person 😕
I am so confused
Dear Fati,
Greetings!!!
Thank you for your interest of research. Let me ask about your institution and departments. Since your back ground is environmental sciences.
In my opinion you should observe the "Impact of some air pollutants on Plant Diversity".
If this suits you. You can further ask to me as I have worked on this topic.
Regards
Rizwan Ali Ansari
Department of Botany
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
India-202002
Cell: +919412819870
If you go to the UNEP TEEB report, you will find a bunch of relevant issues about what you can build your thesis. Ecosystem services and its relations with human well-being have specific structure in specific environment. So choose one specific ecosystem where you live - lake, ocean, mountains, etc.
is it possible give me another suggestion not ecosystem service
one of my classmate work on it
industrial ecology applied to agriculture systems. Closing the material cicle in agriculture.
How about researching how agriculture production differs between countries where natural resource accounting / taxation / externalities differ. i.e. what is the impact of internalizing environmental externalities?
To increase global food security, recent emphasis is on closing the ‘yield gap’ and ‘diet gap’ by focusing on the areas of food production and consumption. However, preventing food losses during the post-harvest handling, storage and distribution are extremely important areas for research. A great deal of food loss can be prevented by making the marketing system more efficient. Therefore, research on the various components of the food supply chain may give interesting information regarding the weak links which contribute towards food loss and wastage.
I presume a lot would depend on a) your own interests b) your disciplinary background c) the department from which you wish to pursue your PhD d) whether you want to do your thesis based on fieldwork (again this would depend a lot on your departmental requirements and resources) and e) the time frame within which you will need to finish your work.
As such the gender dimensions of various aspects of agriculture need a lot more research. Especially critical are the changing roles of women in agriculture in the face of climate change and globalisation as well as diminishing eco-system services. These issues obviously lead to questions about changing gender roles and the empowerment of women. Women's land rights (de-facto and de-jure) are another set of issues.
But the final topic would relate to the issues I have mentioned in the first para. My final suggestion would be to take up an unresearched issue that you can manage given time and resource constraints and not get too ambitious.
What about the cost of adaptation to climate change versus the cost of not adapting.
One key aspect to take in consideration before you choose a topic is the expertise/background of whoever is going to be your adviser.
I think you need to read and identify the key research issues in the area you want to research on.
Environmental economics issues could be so wide. The subject will depend on what are the leading environmental issues in your country. However, you could focus on the impact or valuation studies on leading environmental issues in your country.
You can consider resource use pattern by farmers and their contribution to productivity.People role in NRM.Degradation trends etc.
I think it would be fruitful to study the cost of environmental degradation. May be it is in relation to soil fertility. Additional nutrient input cost required to sustain the level of output in terms of various fertilizers and other efforts. If water level is falling, you may get information about the cost of deepening the tubewell or well and additional power to pump out the water. And So on....Who bears the costs and its implications.
1. Trend and speeds of adjustment in large scale commercial food crop productivity for environmental variability and resilience methods
2. Impact assessment of agricultural technologies productivity for risk variability on commercial large scale food crop
Good morning Fati Ansari,
I understand that the Lake Urmia has considerable problems of overexploitation of its waters to which would contribute the use of that resource in the agricultural sector. It might be interesting to evaluate the physical and economic impacts of imposing constraints to the use of that resource in irrigation, against the benefits of the restoration of the lake levels. Probably there is a problem of efficient use of those waters in irrigation, which perhaps can be improved with investments in collective irrigation networks. In addition, there may be a chance to improve the collective management systems of the water resource, and also to reform its pricing system. Similarly, probably, there is a training problem for farmers to irrigation practice.
Good luck,
Gabriele
A lot depends on the circumstances around you. Most likely, you will use a survey data. If you have (or know) a community where the government or any organization is planning to carry out an invention on natural resources and environment, you may quickly go there to collect a baseline data. After the intervention, you will go back to the same respondents to administer same questionnaire. This will help you do a study on "The Impact of such intervention on the natural resources and/or environment of the community." In that case, you can use double difference estimation method.
Best wishes, Fati Ansari. Cheers!
Do anyone have some information about EPIC model, the environment policy integrated climate model, I can't download it,and how to run this model
please send some papers, if your field is natural resources and environmental economic ,i need help
Dear Fati
Your area of interest is where you can generate your topic from. There is no research when there is no interest (or observation) from you. The topic must come from you first for it to become a meaningful research, then contributions can be made to fine tune your idea.
I suggest you tu study mulberry tree and the silk industry. There are many questions to answer about this aconomy .
It has many advantages for poor country in tropical region , it is labor intensive , high value product , low training requirement , low education , small farm , low energy consumption requirement and many others competitive edge for undevelopment country.
The theses could study how improve the silk quality through better management
I can't find topic plz help me if you are studying in natural resources and environmental economic
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I need help is there any professor in Europe university in environmental and natural resources economic give me a topic and invite me as a visitor researcher please?
I suggest you to study agricultural Education and its impact on ASD
my suggestions are as follow:
1- the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity
2- the optimal resources allocation using linear programming
Impact of climate resilience on agric-business and agro-based rural economy
My suggestion Fati Ansari is that for you to get a topic for your doctorate research and to be able to successfully carry on you must be read extensively in your area of interest. Please read related research from existent literature.
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