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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | PhD position Biodiversity Conservation in Times of Climate Change

Deadline for application: 24 August 2020 Are you willing to contribute to the implementation of the global biodiversity targets using an interdisciplinary perspective? Please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.The PhD student will perform an interdisciplinary study how biodiversity… Read More

University of Antwerp | PhD Scholarship on political ecology of PES

The University of Antwerp (Belgium) is currently offering a 4-year PhD Scholarship on “Political Ecologies of Payments for Ecosystem Services and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Nicaragua and Guatemala” at the Institute of Development Policy.  The research seeks to… Read More

UU, CIFOR & LANDac | PhD Defense Federico Brandão

Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited Frederico’ public defence of its PhD thesis titled: OIL PALM EXPANSION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON The challenge of reconciling conservation and development January 17, 2020 at 14.00 Summary The recent Amazon fire… Read More

Wageningen University | PhD Workshop: SMART Political Ecologies? On the Nature and Power of Environmental Technologies and their Implications for Just Futures (4 ECTS)

The Six-day intensive PhD workshop ‘SMART Political Ecologies? On the Nature and Power of Environmental Technologies and their Implications for Just Futures’ will be held from 27 June – 3 July 2019 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The workshop… Read More

Tropenbos et al | New working paper! Improving the positive impacts of investments on smallholder livelihoods

Moving from “do no harm” to “do good”… This working paper is aimed at impact investors, and presents key pointers or core guidance that have been drawn from international standards, principles and case studies, that follow. It provides… Read More