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The Political Economy of Meat System Transformation

How have public policies evolved to stabilize or destabilize the current meat production and consumption systems in China, the EU and the US?
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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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Diffusion of International Law: A Textual Analysis of International Investment Agreements

What are the design, evolution, and effects of the international investment agreements currently in practice?
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The effects of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLA) on Households in Rural Communities of the Global South: Gender Relations, Decision Making and Food Security

What are the impacts of LSLA on the local food system and how do they affect the decision-making processes of both men and women regarding household food security ?
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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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Political Prioritisation of the Prevention and Control of STIs

What drives the position of sexually transmitted infections on global policy agendas?
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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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New Public Policy Financing Models: Innovative or Ineffective?

What are the effects of Social Impact Bonds on the social service programs they finance?
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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?
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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)?
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