Rural and Environmental History Group

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  Jasper Meya (University of Oldenburg): Inter- and intragenerational distribution and the valuation of natural capital 19 March 2019 - Seminar - This paper studies how the intra- and intergenerational distribution of income affects the economic valuation of non-use environmental public goods...
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  Rolf Groeneveld (ENR): Welfare economics and wicked problems in wet environments 26 March 2019 - Seminar - Marine and coastal governance has been characterised as a ‘wicked’ problem: unlike ‘engineering’ problems, wicked problems...
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  Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin): Information delivery, nutrition and HIV treatment 09 April 2019 - Seminar - Nutrition is a crucial component for individuals living with HIV and AIDS. This paper investigates whether the medium of delivery of nutrition...
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  Lars Hein (Environmental System Analysis, WUR): The System of Environmental Economic Accounting 02 April 2019 09 April 2019 - Seminar - The SEEA Central framework has been broadly used to account for stocks and uses of non-renewable (and some renewable) resources. In the Netherlands,...
• The Foundations of Info-Metrics Information-Theoretic Methods of inference - 3 ECTS 06 May 2019 - Course - This course aims to provide a basic understanding of selected Mathematical concepts that many branches of science relies on. The topics will be...
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  XXI ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE on 11-13 September 2019 11 September 2019 - Congress

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...
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  Economics Research Covered by The Economist
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  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:...
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  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...
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  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...