Research
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Latest papers
Modelling the determinants of voluntary repatriation: The role of ecosystem services in post-conflict reconstruction in Rakhine.
Journal of environmental management · 2021
Latest funding
- $2,065,328
Appraising risk, past and present: interrogating historical data to enhance understanding of environmental crises in the Indian Ocean World
SSHRC · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $434,672
Appraising risk, past and present: interrogating historical data to enhance understanding of environmental crises in the Indian Ocean World
SSHRC · 2017 · Co-investigator
- $1,250,000
The institutional canopy of conservation: governance and environmentality in East Africa
SSHRC · 2013 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Modelling the determinants of voluntary repatriation: The role of ecosystem services in post-conflict reconstruction in Rakhine.
Aung TS, Unruh J, Ali F
Appraising risk, past and present: interrogating historical data to enhance understanding of environmental crises in the Indian Ocean World
Keywords: Indian Ocean World history: human-environment interaction; climate change; volcanism; monsoons; ENSO; cyclones; drought; famine; disease; migration; conflict; historical and contemporary risk patterns and protocols
Appraising risk, past and present: interrogating historical data to enhance understanding of environmental crises in the Indian Ocean World
Keywords: Indian Ocean World history: human-environment interaction; climate change; volcanism; monsoons; ENSO; cyclones; drought; famine; disease; migration; conflict; historical and contemporary risk patterns and protocols
The institutional canopy of conservation: governance and environmentality in East Africa
Keywords: community conservation; wildlife conservation; indigenous peoples; livelihoods; institutions; civil society; land tenure; public policy; East Africa; governance; Savanna and forest ecosystems; green grabbing
An ethnography of social complexity and strategic choice: how pastoralists in East Africa respond to drought, poverty, land fragmentation, and globalization
Principal investigators: Galaty, John G.
Keywords: pastoralism; East Africa; rangelands; drylands; decision-making; land tenure; development; rangeland ecology; civil society; food security; demography; livelihoods; conservation; social action; poverty
The Indian Ocean world: the making of the first global economy in the context of human-environment interaction
Principal investigators: Campbell, Gwyn R.
Keywords: Indian Ocean world; global economy; history; environment; climate change; labour; migration; disease
Postwar land and property rights: reconciling multiple rule of law tenure systems
Principal investigators: Unruh, Jon
Keywords: land tenure; post conflict; postwar; peace process; land and property rights; rule of law
Managing natural resources in post-conflict societies
Principal investigators: Unruh, Jon
Keywords: postwar; resources; land; rights; peace process
Property and poverty: Maasai transitions from collective to private land holding in Kenya
Principal investigators: Galaty, John G.
Keywords: common property; privatization; land tenure; property rights; development; poverty; east Africa; pastoralism; natural resource governance; civil society; livestock markets; NGO's; food security; demography; social change
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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