Research projects of the Environmental and Natural Resources Group
Ongoing research projects
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Nature-based transitions: socio-economic and legal solutions for climate-robust, sustainable and productive sandy-soil landscapes
- The Netherlands was always a country of water abundance, where intensive agricultural production was facilitated by draining land. Recent periods of... -
Climate change, adaptation and human security in the Mekong Delta
- Governments and academic communities increasingly consider climate variability and change as a human security issue. The topic has received growing... -
TRANSPATH - Transformative pathways for synergising just biodiversity- and climate actions
- Urgent and ambitious transformative changes are needed to address the global biodiversity and climate crisis. TRANSPATH seeks opportunities for... -
INREEF: Interdisciplinary program to build the resilience of marine protected areas in tourism destinations
- Fifty percent of the world’s reefs have disappeared due to global climate change and local stressors from fishing and pollution. Yet there still... -
Resilience of the richest reefs
- With a diverse team of scientists, conservationists and policy makers from Indonesia and The Netherlands we will collect local knowledge and... -
Accountability regimes and climate change financing in developing countries (Rishi Basak)
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Marine Management and Ecosystem Dynamics under Climate Change (MARmaED)
- Understanding the complex dynamics of seas and oceans under rapid environmental change with a particular focus on its socio-economic consequences is a... -
Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas (MERCES)
- Restoration of degraded marine habitats requires knowledge of ecology, economics, and governance. MERCES aims to develop and improve restoration... -
Strategic Scientific Alliance on 'Sustainable Resource Management for Adequate and Safe Food Provision' (SURE+)
- A group of researchers from Wageningen University and a number of research institutes is funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences... -
Gomalive - Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining in Tanzania (COMPLETED)
- This interdisciplinary project seeks to explore livelihood-improving technologies, education and capacity building strategies for abating and...