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In the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, socio-cultural anthropologists conduct empirically driven investigations on the following themes: (1) "the making of lifeworlds" in the city, in a digitizing world, through migrant projects, through tourism and heritage, through ethical choices, and through popular culture; (2) "the life of relationships": people are embedded in a plurality of relationships, to others, to animals, plants, ...

The Division of Bioeconomics has three main research lines:

• poverty reduction and economic growth in poor countries and the sustainable and efficient use of natural resource to realize pro-poor growth;
• the transition towards a sustainable bio-based economy;
• the link between economic and ecological models by refining functions of socio-economic drivers that are used to model resource use change and changes in ...