News of the Sociology of Development and Change Group

Exploring critical issues in international development and sustainability: the Sociology of Development and Change Group

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- We know we need to drastically cut fossil fuels to tackle climate change. We know we need to find long-term sustainable ways to live with the...

POPULAR Project shows relationship between residents and the state

- Recently, Associate Professor and researcher Martijn Koster received a prestigious €2 million Consolidator Grant from the European Research...

Grant award Lodestar for early warning of water disasters

- NWO's Merian Fund India has awarded €1.75 million for the research initiative Lodestar (Low-cost Disaster & Emergency Services for...

Launch of Wageningen Disaster Network

- Wageningen has a venerable history in crisis and disaster sociology since 1997, but in a world of pandemics, catastrophic flooding and droughts,...

Capita Selecta: Rewilding of human-dominated landscapes

- The Wildlife Ecology & Conservation group of Wageningen University and ARK Nature are organising a lecture series in the form of a capita selecta.

Private wildlife economies in South Africa are unstainable and lead to ‘green apartheid’

- In South Africa, wildlife economies based around tourism, real estate developments, game meat and more, have been hailed as great catalysts for...

Boek 'The Conservation Revolution' genoemd in De Correspondent (Dutch only)

Veni grant for Stephanie Hobbis

- Assistant Professor Stephanie Hobbis of the Sociology of Development and Change Group has been awarded a Veni grant for her research project:...

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