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Socio-Environmental Vulnerability in Rural Spain – New project funded by La Caixa Foundation
Rural areas in Spain are experiencing unprecedented environmental and social changes. Climate change and biodiversity loss are occurring alongside depopulation and the abandonment and intensification of rural landscapes.
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Beyond market logics in PES
As originally conceived, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes provide conditional cash transfers directed to poor farmers and land users in exchange for greener land use practices that enhance carbon sequestration, water provision, or biodiversity protection. Two decades of experience with the PES approach has demonstrated that few, if any, initiatives conform to the assumptions…
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Interns blog!
A mandatory part of every MSc at the Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands) is to carry out a full-time internship. Coming from environmental policy (Francesca) and climate change studies (Marzia), we wanted our internship to focus on climate change impacts and how people perceive them.
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Workshop with Prof Kai Chan – Relational values are fundamental for sustainable transformations
On December 10th 2019, Prof. Kai Chan from the University of British Columbia Canada followed our invitation to Barcelona to discuss the relevance and new pathways of studying relational values for sustainable transformations.
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Victoria Reyes-García receives an ERC Proof of Concept grant linked to the LICCI project
Victoria Reyes-García ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) is one of the 76 top researchers that will receive ERC Proof of Concept grants.
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5 PhD fellowships in social-environmental sciences for early-stage researchers
The doctoral fellowship programme INPhINIT ”la Caixa” is devoted to attracting talented Early-Stage Researchers—of any nationality—who wish to pursue doctoral studies in Spanish or Portuguese territory. Sponsored by ”la Caixa” Foundation, it is aimed at supporting the best scientific talent and fostering innovative and high-quality research in Spain and Portugal by recruiting outstanding international students and offering…
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Discussing impacts of climate change in the Bolivian Amazon
Within the context of the III Jornadas de Etnobiologia en Bolivia, three members of the LICCI project discussed with Bolivian scientists and representatives of the Chiquitano and Tacana Indigenous peoples how climate change is affecting their livelihoods.
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Congratulations to Laseg’s recent graduates Lina Moros and Laia d’Armengol-Catà!
We feel extremely happy because Laia and Lina defended their PhD dissertations with great success on the 3rd and 11th of October, respectively.
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Gendered perceptions of climate change impacts
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) offers one fellowship available to candidates who would like to pursue their PhD studies at the institute within the the Strategic Research Programme ICTA-UAB, Units of Excellence ‘María de Maeztu’ Programme (MDM-2015-0552).
