...exploring how people shape the world's forests

Category Archives: Events

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 …

13th February 2016 Comments Off on June 2nd, 2015: How to Get Published

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 …

24th February 2015 Comments Off on March 11th, 2015: Planning Workshop for FLARE

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 …

7th October 2014 Comments Off on October 9th, 2014: Solutions for Climate Change in Nepal
11th April 2014 Comments Off on May 27-28th, 2014: IFRI meeting at SESYNC

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 …

13th March 2014 Comments Off on March 17th, 2014: Food Security & Sociopolitical Stability with Christopher Barrett

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 …

30th September 2013 Comments Off on November 16th: Global Landscapes Forum, COP19

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.

30th September 2013 Comments Off on October 28th-31st: IFRI meeting at SESYNC

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. …

26th September 2013 Comments Off on October 7th: Aseem Shrivastava: ‘Predatory growth in India: critique and alternative’

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 …

19th June 2013 Comments Off on July 2nd: Dan Miller dissertation defense: ‘Governing biodiversity and livelihoods’

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 …

4th June 2013 Comments Off on June 6th: The United Nations and Forests in the era of the post 2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals