Contact

Discipline: Environmental Science

Environmental Change and Migration

What are the generalised, large scale factors of the environment-migration relationship and to what extent is it conditional on various individual, socio-economic, and political factors?
read more

A Multi-Scale Approach to Land Governance in Complex Cultural, Environmental and Institutional Contexts. Development of a Comparative GIS Methodology Linking Land Use, Land Cover and Land Tenure from the Cases of Bolivia and the Lao PDR

How can a geographical information system methodology contribute to address the governance of natural resources in terms of conservation and development?
read more

Mountlennium: Reaching Millennium Development Goals through Regional Mountain Governance

To what extent can regional governance architectures of mountainous areas contribute to achieving the Millenium Development Goals in terms of integration of sustainable development principles and of reduction of biodiversity loss?
read more

Socio-ecological Networks and Resilience of Vulnerable Communities to Global Environmental Change: an Arctic-Alpine Comparison of Social Network Governance (ArcAlpNet)

How can social network analysis help in understanding resilience to global environmental changes in the isolated mountain and Arctic island communities?
read more

Large Scale Land Acquisitions in Southeast Asia: Rural Transformations between Global Agendas and Peoples’ Right to Food

How can potentially negative effects on local populations of large-scale land acquisitions be mitigated and what could institutions do to protect human rights of the affected population?
read more

Governance of Forests: Multiple Outcomes in the Bolivian Lowlands – Reconciling Livelihoods, Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Sequestration

How can new institutional arrangements help reconcile livelihood-relevant factors of local populations with the UN program for Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)?
read more

Climate Change, Economic Growth, and Conflict

What are the linkages between climate change, economic growth and conflict?
read more

Negotiating Climate Change

How can developing countries compensate for their limited power resources by deploying successful strategies in the context of climate change compensation negotiations?
read more

Browse

by Disciplines

Sociology
Political Economy
Law
History
Psychology
Social Medicine
University of Lucerne
Political Science
Anthropology
Ethnography
Environmental Science
Economics
Human Geography
Statistics