Rural and Environmental History Group
The mission of the Rural and Environmental History Group (RHI) is to offer temporal depth to societal debates and social theories on sustainable and equitable welfare development.
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Otto Raspe (PBL): The geography of economic growth and the need for new policies - What drives regional economic growth? And what policies work in the context of regional and urban development? Otto will discuss the factors that are... -
Lubos Smutka and Karel Malec (Czech University of Life Sciences): Volatility and liquidity on commodity markets - In todays markets, commodities are frequently characterized by an increasing trend in the long term. There were significant fluctuations of commodity... -
Michail Moatsos (UU): The confidence level of the first millennium development goal - The dollar-a-day method, applied in monitoring the UN's development goals against poverty, provides no confidence interval for the official figures of... -
XXI ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE on 11-13 September 2019
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Highlights
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New PostDoc Daniel Gallardo Albarran We would like to introduce our new Postdoc Daniel Gallardo Albarran who started working with us on February 1:
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New PhD Tanik Joshipura We would like to introduce our new PhD student Tanik Joshipura who started working with us on February 1:
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Ammodo Science Award 2019 for WUR historian Ewout Frankema Ewout Frankema, Professor of Agrarian and Environmental History at Wageningen University & Research, has won an Ammodo Science Award 2019. This... -
Economics Research Covered by The Economist -
RHI receives Education Innovation Subsidy 2018 25 May 2018 - For the academic year 2018-2019 RHI has received a grant for an education innovation project for the course RHI-10506:... -
Thirsk-Feinstein Prize won by Corinne Boter 17 April 2018 - Last Saturday it was announced that our former colleague Corinne Boter (now a postdoc at the Economic and Social History Group of... -
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk receives ERC Consolidator Grant 4 December 2017 - The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant of 2 million euros to former WUR-employee prof. dr. Elise van...
Recent Publications
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Journal of Economic History (Journal)
Journal of Economic History (2017). - ISSN 0022-0507
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Economic History of Developing Regions (Journal)
Economic History of Developing Regions (2017). - ISSN 2078-0389
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Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Journal)
Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2017). - ISSN 2452-3666
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Hoe krenterigheid en conservatisme voor trage VOC-schepen zorgden
Volkskrant, Volkskrant, 2017-12-04, Cor Speksnijder, https://s.vk.nl/s-a4543040/?_sp=99c33606-89e0-4f37-b215-cfe202b8aa40.1525163469809
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The Age of Trade. The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy, written by Arturo Giraldez
Journal of Early Modern History 21 (2017)1-2. - ISSN 1385-3783 - p. 140 - 142.
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Latest publications
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Book Presentation ‘The Origins of Globalization. World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800’
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Ler História (Journal)
Ler História (2019).
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Unfair Trade? Globalization and Inequality in Global History
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Het grootgrondbezit in Gelderland omstreeks 1850
Bijdragen en Mededelingen Gelre 109 (2018). - p. 95 - 110.
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Eric H. Ash, The draining of the fens. Projectors, politics, and state building in early modern England
Tijdschrift voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis 27 (2018)1-2. - ISSN 0927-3336 - p. 79 - 80.