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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Ben D’Exelle (U East Anglia, UK) Competitive versus Destructive Envy: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment -
Global challenges, regional Solutions: productivity growth and sustainability in the Frisian Dairy Sector, 1960-. - On invitation of the Rural and Environmental History Group, Ronald Plantinga will give a seminar on December 10, 2019. -
Frederic Ang (WUR-BEC) Adjusting for greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural productivity analysis: A global perspective -
Conrad Heilmann (Erasmus U Rotterdam) How to be fair: what philosophers and economists can learn from each other -
*Cancelled* Farewell Address Professor Ekko van Ierland
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News
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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... -
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... -
New PhD Robert Keenan We would like to introduce our new PhD student Robert Keenan who started working with us on September 2nd: -
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... -
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... -
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Latest publications
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Moving beyond colonial control? Economic forces and shifting migration from Ruanda-Urundi to Buganda, 1920–60
Journal of African History 60 (2019)3. - ISSN 0021-8537 - p. 379 - 406.
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Het enigma van de open fields
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 132 (2019). - ISSN 0040-7518 - p. 296 - 298.
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Annie Antoine, ed. , <em>Agricultural specialisation and rural patterns of development</em>
Historia Agraria : Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural 77 (2019). - ISSN 1139-1472 - p. 48 - 51.
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Régulation des eaux, investissement urbain et croissance agricole. L’agriculture dans les provinces littorales des Pays-Bas, 1400-1900
In: Histoire rurale de l’Europe XVIe-XXe siècle / , Herment, L.. - Parijs : Editions EHESS: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - ISBN 9782713227745 - p. 47 - 68.
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The Global History of Inequality
International Review of Social History 64 (2019)2. - ISSN 0020-8590 - p. 309 - 323.