The connections between real estate governance and urban climate risk management represent a critical missing link between urban research, policy-making, and practice. Real estate climate risk management practices have important consequences for the welfare and prosperity of at-risk cities, yet climate risk management cultures and practices vary greatly between cities. These highly particular variables shape an increasingly globalized real ...
This project will support universities, indigenous communities, policy-makers and other actors in building institutional capacity to trigger sustainable development and indigenous social inclusion in the Peruvian Amazon. The overall aim is to co-produce a tailored, community-based REDD+ plan adapted to the needs of two tropical forest regions, Loreto and San Martin. Outcomes of the project include: (i) a critical assessment of forest climate ...
The ICP Master in Sustainable Territorial Development has been designed as a research driven educational programme, mindful of ethics, gender and diversity, that prepares the sustainability leaders of the future. The main objective is to train students to become the agents of change that will imagine, trigger and build the sustainability transition of the twenty-first century in the Global South. Thus it will attend the shortage of ...
This project tackles the urgent challenge of triggering the sustainable development potential of Global South rural areas, notably of those with high poverty levels and living under the social, economic and environmental threats brought by the contemporary proliferation of extractive industries. This project addresses this development problem by stimulating sustainable rural development in the North of Peru through community-based and ...
The past decade there has been an increase in the commodification of land to meet the demand for food and materials, resulting in land acquisitions by a wide range of actors, a process that is also known as land grabbing. This PhD project explores the social, political and environmental dynamics underlying the governance of land grabbing, and the environmental justice issues pertaining to land grabbing. These issues are researched in ...
The main aim of this research is to assess the social segregation as an effect of urban development in and around Paramaribo, Suriname. The urban growth between 1987 and 2015 will be assessed from remotely sensed images. To gain insight into the population within this urban system, an analysis will be done on the residential differentiation. This will be done via visual analysis of Google Earth images. From this differentiation, based on ...