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De kennisbrief schetst nog niet veel meer dan de contouren van nieuw beleid om kennis en onderzoek in te zetten voor ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Dat maakt het lastig om erop te reageren, om ervoor te zijn of er tegen. Maar vragen roept het wel op.

Day two of the Nature™ Inc conference, and a special day indeed. We only had one round of sessions in the morning, and one plenary session. The rest of the day was devoted to a fieldtrip to the Oostvaardersplassen. More about that in a minute: fir...

The Broker will publish interesting publications and current affairs in de field of global development.

Early from the beginning of the ISEE 2010 conference, the Yasuni-ITT initiative was in my priority list among the sessions as it is at the frontier of the sustainability, ecological economics, environmental economics and political ecology debate....

This was my first time to meet up with ecological economics. Up to now my only encounter with the discipline has been through books and the journal, - more or less since the 1990s. For me, it was the occasion to watch the giants that adhere to th...

The Broker talked to conference participants about their experience at the ISEE conference 'Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis' in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, August 2010. What are the outcomes? What inspired them? And, most important...

ISEE President John Gowdy talks to The Broker about the challenges ahead in the field of ecological economics at the 2010 ISEE conference 'Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis' in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, August 2010....

On Friday afternoon, June 11, participants of the Eco Efficiency Conference went home with a feeling of being deeply inspired and broader informed in their thinking about the complex field of eco-efficiency. They thanked Gjalt Huppes and his team,...

Engineers and social scientists need to work together, said Roland Clift in the plenary session on Friday morning, speaking about Sustainable Consumption and Degrowth.Finding common language is difficult. He observed that in the degrowth debate th...

Policy making in an increasingly complex world requires more knowledge and strategic analysis.

The International Studies Association is hosting its 51st Annual Convention in the vibrant city of New Orleans, USA.

The Development Studies Association , which works to connect and promote the development research community in UK and Ireland, will hold it's annual conference at the University of Ulster in Belfast from 2 – 4th September.

Over the last few months I have attended a number of meetings that focused on the future of development cooperation. Among these were the workshop on the Practice of Civic Driven Change in the Hague, the Netherlands, and the High Level Policy Foru...

Crises, conflicts and emergencies are not simply deviations from normality, as is usually believed. Rather, there is much more continuity with normality. Often, crises are manifestations of, or they catalyze, intensified processes of change that w...

The Broker asked Björn Hettne to reflect on the following three questions concerning Europe's role in international development.

In solving complex problems involving many different stakeholders, interdisciplinary research is indispensable. But cooperation between disciplines is not always easy. Since 2000 Wageningen University has funded a series of interdisciplinary resea...

There are increasing calls for greater cooperation between scientists from different disciplines. Under certain circumstances such interdisciplinary research can add value. A new publication, Building bridges, offers some advice for sceptics and e...