Rural and Environmental History Group

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  Assessing Economic Policies Using the Real Options Methodology - 3 ECTS

  17 August 2020 - Summer school - Irreversible effects do play an important role in private as well as public decision making. The basis for the Precautionary Principle, an important...

Highlights

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  Ewout Frankema ontvangt Ammodo Science Award 2019

  15 April 2019
• T.S. Ashton Prize for Michiel de Haas

  12 April 2019
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  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk receives ERC Consolidator Grant

  04 December 2017
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  “Van Winterprijs 2017” for Janny Bloembergen-Lukkes

  13 October 2017
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  Cum Laude for thesis on colonial Uganda

  11 October 2017

News

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  NOS special over de Hongerwinter
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  Ewout Frankema nominated for the Elinor Ostrom Prize

  The Elinor Ostrom Prize has been established in honour of the late Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012), who was an enormously creative scholar...
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  New Assistant Professor dr. Ingrid de Zwarte

  Ingrid de Zwarte studied History and Slavic Languages and Cultures at the University of Amsterdam. In February 2018, she completed her PhD in History...
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  New PhD Robert Keenan

  We would like to introduce our new PhD student Robert Keenan who started working with us on September 2nd:
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  Ewout Frankema ontvangt Ammodo Science Award 2019

  Donderdag 11 april is voor de derde keer de Ammodo Science Award uitgereikt. Tijdens de feestelijke avond in Internationaal Theater Amsterdam namen...
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  New secretary Barbara Schierbeek

  We would like to introduce our new secretary Barbara Schierbeek who started working with us on July 1:
• T.S. Ashton Prize for Michiel de Haas

  Michiel de Haas his paper “Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda’s smallholders thrive?” has won the T.S. Ashton...
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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...