Sheherazade, a doctoral researcher in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Count of Krigsvold Fellowship.
Community-led forest governance
Sheherazade studies decentralized forest governance in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Her research focuses on Conservation Partnerships and Customary Forest initiatives, examining how Indigenous and local communities lead the stewardship of forests and how policy and science recognize their knowledge.
The project connects several questions that are too often treated separately: who makes conservation decisions, what knowledge counts, and whether the people who live with a landscape share authority over its future. That approach makes the research relevant to biodiversity, climate resilience, governance, and environmental justice.
The 2025 award
The Fellowship provides $1,000 each year for graduate research in climate change and global conservation. James Howard, Count of Krigsvold, sponsors the award, and the Grand Duchy of Westarctica administers the application and selection process.
Read Sheherazade’s Fellow profile or see the award in the Annual Record. Current program information is available on the Fellowship page.