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Article: The role of protected areas and land tenure regimes on forest loss in Bolivia: accounting for spatial spillovers

By Sebastien Boillat, Graziano Ceddia  The conversion of tropical forests to croplands and grasslands is a major threat to global biodiversity, climate and local livelihoods and ecosystems. The enforcement of protected areas as well as the clarification and… Read More

Fully Funded Research Opportunities at National University Singapore

There are new roles open for fully-funded research opportunities attached to our new SSRC Grant on Climate Governance of Nature-based Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia. The positions are for three, four-year PhD scholarships in the Department of Geography… Read More

Vacancy Post Doctoral Researcher at UvA

Are you interested in the study of nationalism and inequality and the role of the natural environment in narratives and practices around nationalist politics? Would you like to work on roles of trees in Israel/Palestine through an anthropological… Read More

LANDac Conference 2022 Programme

The LANDac Conference 2022 is taking off soon! We are looking forward to meeting you on location in Utrecht or online on MS Teams. Do not forget to register, which you can do here: https://fd21.formdesk.com/universiteitutrecht-geo/LANDacconference Below you can… Read More

Job Opportunity RVO (Dutch) – Programma Adviseur Landrechten

Sollicitatie deadline: 20 mei! Solliciteer hier. Binnen het team Mondiale Vraagstukken Voedselzekerheid zoeken wij een Programma Adviseur Landrechten voor ‘LAND-at-scale’. De afdeling internationale ontwikkeling onderdeel team Mondiale vraagstukken (MV) voert diverse programma’s uit voor het Ministerie van Buitenlandse… Read More

Register here for the LANDac Conference 2022!

You can now register for the LANDac Annual International Conference of 2022! Click here to go to the registration form We are very happy that we will be able to receive you on location again. Therefore, the conference… Read More

Research publications: Ten Years After

We are happy to announce the first publications of our research project ‘Ten years after: A reality check on impact assessments of infrastructural projects’. This project aims to establish how impact assessments can be made more accurate and… Read More

UPDATE – Call for Abstracts

Three new sessions have been added to the Call for Abstracts for the LANDac Conference 2022. The new sessions are: What can commons of the Iberian Peninsula northwest teach us about their role in sustainable rural development? Approach,… Read More

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – LANDac Conference 2022

We are now pleased to invite abstract submissions for the LANDac Annual International Conference 2022. This Call for Abstracts is open until April 15, 2022. The LANDac Annual International Conference offers a podium for knowledge exchange between researchers,… Read More

Job opportunity UU | Assistant Professor of Land and Trans-local Development

Assistant Professor of Land and Trans-local Development, Utrecht University (1.0 FTE) Application deadline: 11 March, 2022 The Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at the Faculty of Geosciences of Utrecht University is interested in attracting an early… Read More