Bianca Wulansari Kassun (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend her PhD thesis "Assessing the dynamics, synergies, and trade-offs among land use, land cover, and ecosystem services in a dry Afromontane forest in Ethiopia: Implications for sustainable management" Friday 13 March 2026.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis:
"Assessing the dynamics, synergies, and trade-offs among land use, land cover, and ecosystem services in a dry Afromontane forest in Ethiopia: Implications for sustainable management"
Norwegian title of thesis:
"Analyse av dynamikk, synergier og avveininger mellom arealbruk, landdekke og økosystemtjenester i en tørr afromontan skog i Etiopia: Implikasjoner for bærekraftig forvaltning."
Prescribed subject of trial lecture:
"Future ecosystem services in low-productive forest areas: impacts of macroclimatic and local anthropogenic factors"
Time and place for trial lecture and public defence:
Friday 13 March 2026, at 12.15 in Festsalen, Clock building
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Professor Bart Muys (KU Leuven, Belgium).
Second opponent: Professor Hanne K. Sjølie (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Committee coordinator: Professor Kyle Eyvindson (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Supervisors:
Main supervisor: Dr. Meley Mekonen Rannestad (MINA/NMBU).
Co-supervisor: Professor Maarit Kallio (MINA/NMBU) and Professor Erik Trømborg (MINA/NMBU)
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.