About Shivani's Work
I completed my PhD from Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) & Manipal University, Bangalore, India. My dissertation title is ‘Impact of institutions on land cover change and landscape fragmentation in Indian dry tropical forest landscapes’. I joined department of Earth System Science in Stanford University as a post-doctroal scholar.
I am interested in Landscape Ecology, mainly in exploring institutional linkages towards land cover changes and connectivity in urban and forest environments. I intend to draw on my theoretical and practical experiences in applying Earth Observation/Remote Sensing and GIS technologies to conduct further research. I’m interested characterizing landscapes (extent and quality), human impacts on patterns and causes of land use/land cover change, and local community responses to change through institutions and management policies.