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Discipline: Environmental Science

What International Negotiators Promise and Domestic Policymakers Adopt: Policy and Politics in the Multi-Level Climate Change Regime

To which degree and under which conditions do countries translate their international commitments regarding CC mitigation into their domestic policies (i.e. policy objectives and instruments)?
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Urban Sanitation Technologies as International Power Structures (U-STASIS)

Why and how does centralized design prevail as a global gold standard for the urban sanitation sector even in the light of crisis and how does it influence project implementation under SDG6?
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Monitoring Marine Biodiversity in the Genomic Era

How effective is the metabarcoding approach as a tool for measuring the status of marine biodiversity?
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Governing Plastic: The Global Political Economy and Regulation of Plastic Production and Pollution

What are the economic and political forces driving the expanding global plastic economy?
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Governance Processes and Sustainability Impacts of the Extractive Industries: Generating Transformation Knowledge in the Biodiversity Hotspot of Madagascar

What is the role of large-scale extractive investments in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and their contradictory dynamics?
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COALSTAKE: The Political Economy of Coal Policy

Why do countries differ in their policy choices on coal energy?
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Closing the Food-Waste-Farming Cycle: Composting and Urban Agriculture in Cameroon and Switzerland

What are the barriers and opportunities for compost-based urban farming and gardening in Dschang, Cameroon and Lausanne, Switzerland?
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(Un)Sustainable Food Consumption Dynamics in South/Southeast Asia: Changing Patterns, Practices and Policies among “New Consumers” in India and the Philippines

What are the consumption patterns of the growing middle classes in emerging countries? What are the environmental and social impacts of these practices? How can more sustainable consumption pathways be reached?
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Schistosomiasis, Agriculture and Migration in Africa: A Joint Economic and Ecological Analysis

What are the complex relationships between Schistosomiasis, agricultural production, and migration in an African context?
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Environmental Change and Migration: The Role of Urbanization in Conflict Processes

How does rural-to-urban migration generated by climate change affect urbanization? What are the economic and political settings that contribute to or impede the emergence of political violence and conflicts?
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