Rural and Environmental History Group

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  Deindustrialization in East Africa: textile production in an era of globalization and colonization, c. 1830-1940 22 May 2018 - PhD defence

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  Moritz Drupp: Relative prices and climate policy. How the scarcity of non-market goods drives policy evaluation 24 May 2018 - Seminar - We study how the scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities, affects the economic appraisal of climate policy. To this end, we...
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  Özge Öner: When Weak Ties are Strong. Ethnic enclaves, information frictions, and labor market sorting of immigrants 31 May 2018 - Seminar - In this paper, we investigate the effects of ethnic enclaves on the economic prospects of newly arrived immigrants. Using a geo-coded full population...
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  Liesbeth de Schutter: Monitoring the performance of the EU bioeconomy in society 07 June 2018 - Seminar - Aiming at low carbon pathways and sustainable growth, the EU has embarked on a bioeconomy strategy to replace building blocks in the fossil economy by...
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  International Students Summit (ISS) 27 September 2018 - Conference - Every BSc-student at Wageningen University is invited to apply for the position of student representative of Wageningen University to the 18th ISS...

Highlights

• Vacancy Post-doc researcher We are looking for a post-doc researcher in global economic and social history who will receive a free role in the research program of the Rural and...
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  Thirsk-Feinstein Prize won by Corinne Boter Last Saturday it was announced that our former colleague Corinne Boter (now a postdoc at the Economic and Social History Group of Utrecht University)...
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  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk receives ERC Consolidator Grant The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant of 2 million euros to former WUR-employee prof. dr. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk...
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  “Van Winterprijs 2017” for Janny Bloembergen-Lukkes Janny Bloembergen-Lukkes will receive the Professor van Winterprijs 2017 on November 9, 2017 for her book Paradoxale modernisering: Ede 1946-1996....
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  Cum Laude for thesis on colonial Uganda On Wednesday September 20, Michiel de Haas of the Rural and Environmental History group defended his thesis Rural livelihoods and agricultural...
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  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk appointed as special professor at RU Nijmegen As of 15 June 2017, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (RHI) has been appointed as special chair ‘Comparative History of Households, Gender and...
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  Radio interview on Radio New Zealand National On 29 September Colin Khoury was interviewed by Radio New Zealand National. He talked about seed banks and crop diversity.
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  KI (Jason) Papaioannou MSc
  'Force of Nature' Climate Shocks, Food Crises and Conflict in Colonial Africa and Asia,1880-1960 PhD Defence Kostadis Papaioannou, 2 June 2017, 16:00 hrs