ITC Twente | Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Richard Sliuzas 22 November 2018
The Rector Magnificus would like to announce that Prof. Dr. Richard Sliuzas, appointed by the Executive Board of the University of Twente as Professor of Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth… Read More
LANDac | Seminar Climate Displacement
The impacts of climate change increasingly forces people away from their homes and livelihoods. Increased droughts force small-scale farmers to abandon their land and the rising sea level pushes poor families living in delta cities away from their… Read More
LANDac | Annual International Conference Report 2018
The LANDac Annual International Conference 2018 looked at land governance through the lens of mobility. Land acquisitions trigger migration and yield other types of mobility such as capital, goods and ideas. Ensuing land claims raise new questions for… Read More
LANDac | Policy Brief #6 Negotiating and implementing large scale land deals in Sierra Leone – Improving transparency and consent
Improving transparency and consent – Caitlin Ryan LANDac Policy Brief #6 by Caitlin Ryan
LANDac | Call for papers: LANDac Special Issue in Land
Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit your paper for open access publication in this Special Issue of Land, “Land Governance and (Im)mobility: Exploring the Nexus between Land Acquisition, Displacement and Migration”. This Special Issue takes the… Read More
LANDac | LANDac Conference side event – Workshop: (Geo)Visualizing Qualitative Methods
Workshop: (Geo)Visualizing Qualitative Methods Organised by Dr. Kei Otsuki and Dr. Ajay Bailey Our academic research often produces texts. We interview people, observe situations, collect more data, analyze and write and publish about them. The question is: are… Read More
LANDac | Last chance! Limited places left for the LANDac Summer School 2018 – Land Governance for Development
02–13 July 2018, Utrecht, the Netherlands The course is organized by the Netherlands Academy for Land Governance (LANDac), a network of organizations exchanging knowledge and experience on how land governance may contribute to sustainable and inclusive development. Professionals… Read More
Utrecht University | 5 Postdoc researchers for the hub Transforming Cities through Infrastructures
Job description (deadline: 14 June 2018) Within Utrecht University’s strategic theme Pathways to Sustainability an interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed the challenging research programme ‘Transforming Cities through Infrastructures’. In this programme, faculty members from different disciplines (urban governance research,… Read More
ILC & LANDac | Men that champion women’s land rights
The International Land Coalition reported on LANDac’s Learning Event on the Women and Secure Land Rights in Africa project, held in April 2018 in Nairobi. Gender means many things to people, but one image that usually comes to… Read More
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E&S Special Feature | Transforming Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South
The journal Ecology & Society has published a special feature on “Transforming Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South for Social-Ecological Resilience”. This special feature is edited by Eleanor Fisher, Maarten Bavinck, and Aklilu Amsalu and contains a number… Read More