The Laureates of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, are now announced. The 2018 Honorary Award goes to anti-corruption champions Thelma Aldana (Guatemala) & Ivan Velásquez (Colombia) “for their innovative work in exposing abuse of power and prosecuting corruption, thus rebuilding people’s trust …
For his doctoral research on “Marginality at the interface of contemporary development processes in urban India” RLC/ZEF PhD student Amit Kumar has been conducting field research in the slums of Mumbai. To read about his experiences, please click here.
From September 9 – 12, 2018, the RLC Campus Bonn organised an international transdisciplinary workshop on “Mobilization for Change: Promoting and Defending Justice for Marginalised People”, in cooperation with the German Association of German Development Services (AGdD). 15 young researchers from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, “Alternative Nobel Prize” Laureates …
The scientific journal Water is looking for interesting contributions to their special issue on “Implications of Climate Change on the Sustainable Management of Water-Forest Nexus” The deadline to submit a manuscript is September 1, 2019 For more information, please click here or visit the following homepage: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/Water_Forest_Nexus. Water is …
Picture on the left by Christoph Kollert/YFP 2010 In his book “Economía herética – Treinta y cinco años a contracorriente”, RLA Laureate Manfred Max-Neef (Chile) collects his critical essays from the past 35 years on economic development and alternatives. This month, RLC PhD student Alejandro Mora-Motta (Bonn and Valdivia) published …
