Category Archives: Events
March 11th, 2015: Planning Workshop for FLARE
Planning Workshop: Forests & Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, Engagement (FLARE) As an extension of the DFID research project, IFRI is holding a planning workshop for a new Community of Practice, Forests & Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, Engagement (FLARE) on March 11th in …
October 9th, 2014: Solutions for Climate Change in Nepal
Reducing Vulnerability and Enhancing Socio-ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change in Nepal October 9, 1:00-2:00pm, Dana Building 2024 Nepal is ranked one of the 5th climate vulnerable countries around the world. The melting of Himalayan glaciers has seriously …
May 27-28th, 2014: IFRI meeting at SESYNC
Annapolis, Maryland
March 17th, 2014: Food Security & Sociopolitical Stability with Christopher Barrett
March 17, 1-2:30pm, Dana Building 2024 Christopher Barrett will speak about his new book Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability. Global food price spikes in 2008 and 2011 coincided with political unrest in low- and middle-income countries. Angry consumers took to …
November 16th: Global Landscapes Forum, COP19
IFRI researchers are co-organizing a Technical and Networking Session as part of the CGIAR’s Global Landscapes Forum, on the sidelines of the UN climate change conference COP19 in Warsaw, on November 16th. Organized in conjunction with The Forests Dialogue, the …
October 28th-31st: IFRI meeting at SESYNC
IFRI researchers, CRC members and affiliates will meet for four days of presentations, discussions, planning and data-sharing in the second of three Venture meetings supported and hosted by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, Maryland, from October 28-31.
October 7th: Aseem Shrivastava: ‘Predatory growth in India: critique and alternative’
Aseem Shirvasta Predatory Growth in India: Critique and Alternative Room 1028, Dana Building, 3:00-4:00pm The Uttarakhand floods during the summer of 2013 were a grim portent of the predatory implications of India’s growth. They were the worst in recent decades. …
July 2nd: Dan Miller dissertation defense: ‘Governing biodiversity and livelihoods’
July 2, 2013, 4-5pm, Room 2024, Dana Building, University of Michigan Come support IFRI researcher and SNRE PhD Candidate, Dan Miller, at his dissertation defense. Title: Conservation Legacies: Governing Biodiversity and Livelihoods around the W National Parks of Benin …
June 6th: The United Nations and Forests in the era of the post 2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals
June 6, 2013, 1:30 pm, Room 4325 Dana Building, School of Natural Resources and Environment Talk by Ms. Jan L. McAlpine, Director, United Nations Forum on Forests Jan McAlpine is Director of the United Nations Division on Forests and head of …
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June 2nd, 2015: How to Get Published
Kay McArdle, Arun Agrawal, & Joan Nassauer How to Get Published: A Presentation for PhD Students & Early Career Researchers June 2, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm, Dana Building 1006 Kay McArdle is a Publisher of Geography, Planning and Development journals …