Successful PhD Completion in times of COVID-19: Luca Eufemia defense

On 12 June 2020, under new regulation and no-contact policies due to coronavirus, Mr. Eufemia successfully defended his dissertation at the Life Sciences Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin and is now entitled to use the title "Dr. rer. agr.".

In his thesis entitled "A Framework for Community-based Governance in Grasslands and Savannahs of South America", Mr. Eufemia presented the conceptual framework for Community-based Governance (CBG) in Grasslands and Savannahs of South America.

Through his PhD, the list of publication includes 3 cumulative works of the dissertation and 8 side articles, as both author and co-author, supporting the whole structure of the PhD :

Eufemia, L. et al. (2019) Collective perception of anthropic and extractive interventions in the Colombian Llanos. Social Sciences 8, Article 259. (Article 1)
Eufemia, L. et al. (2019) Community-based governance and sustainability in the Paraguayan Pantanal. Sustainability 11, 19, Article 5158. (Article 2)
Eufemia, L. et al. (2019) Mechanisms of weak Governance in Grasslands and Wetlands of South America. Territory, Politics, Governance. (Article 3) (under review)
Bonatti, M. et al. (2019) Social representations of climate change and climate adaptation plans in southern Brazil: challenges of genuine participation. Urban Climate 29, Article 100496.
Graser, M. et al. (2020) Peacebuilding in rural Colombia - A Collective Perception of the Integrated Rural Reform (IRR) in the Department of Caquetá (Amazon). Land 9(2), 36.
Eufemia, L. et al. (2018) Synthesis of Environmental Research Knowledge: The Case of Paraguayan Pantanal Tropical Wetlands. Sustainable Agriculture Research, SAR, 7(4), 125-133.
Bonatti, M. et al. (2019) Pathways to improve PAG in a Challenging institutional setting: The case of the Río Negro National Park in Paraguay. Human Ecology (under major revision).
Eufemia, L. et al. (2018). Colombia's rural development must honour peace agreement. Nature, 560(7716), 29.
Eufemia, L. et al. (2019). Colombia's inadequate environmental goals. Science (New York, NY), 364(6439), 444.
Eufemia, L. et al. Community-Based Governance Manual. Case Study: Municipality of Paz de Ariporo, Casanare (Colombia) (English/Spanish). ZALF: SusLAND. Müncheberg, Germany (2019)
Eufemia, L. et al. Fortalecimiento de La Gobernanza Comunitaria en el Pantanal Paraguayo (Distrito de Bahía Negra, Alto Paraguay, Paraguay). Reporte WWF Paraguay. Asunción, Paraguay (2019)

Currently, he works at ZALF in two working groups within research Area 2 "Land Use and Governance": "Biotic Interactions between Forest and Agricultural Land" and "Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries".