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A study has been recently published by DIE (Germand Development Institute) conducted by Britta Horstmann and Jonas Hein on “Aligning Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Development Under the UNFCCC: A Critical Assessment of the Clean Development Mechanism, the Green Climate Fund and REDD+ ” The publication is available here. The abstract of the study…
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Photo by Wolfgang Schmidt On February 3rd, 2018, the RLC Campus Mumbai held its annual Right Livelihood Public Event with Right Livelihood Laureates Medha Patkar (1991) and Colin Gonsalves (2017). After introductory speeches by RLC Campus Coordinator Dr. Swati Banerjee and TISS Dean Professor Manish Jha, both Laureates talked about the state of the Indian…
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Picture: Helena Norberg-Hodge Portraits 2016 by Anja Light On November 6th 2017, Helena Norberg-Hodge gave a thought-provoking speech on (ecological) well-being and the limitations in the economic system at the RLC Campus Santa Cruz, University of California. Helena is a widely respected analyst of the impact of the global economy on communities, local economies, and…
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In October 2017, RLC Bonn PhD student Lai Wan Teng (Malaysia) successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the topic: “We come. We work. We relate. The migrant labourers in Penang”, conducted in cooperation with TENAGANITA, a Malaysian human rights organization founded by Laureate Irene Fernandez in 1991. After her graduation at RLC Campus Bonn, Wan…
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The Right Livelihood College is delighted to announce that Ms. Montawadee Krutmechai, RLC fellowship holder from Bangkok, Thailand, has completed her PhD degree at RLC associate campus Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Her thesis is a case study on Buddhist Medicine Foundation of Thailand (BMFT), a faith- based organisation that applies religious dimensions and cultural values…
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RLC PhD student Juliet Wanjiku Kamau published an article on “Organic and conventional agriculture in Kenya: A typology of smallholder farms in Kajiado and Murang’a counties” together with RLC Campus Bonn coordinator Till Stellmacher, Lisa Biber-Freudenberger and Christian Borgemeister in the Journal of Rural Studies. In this study, smallholder farmers in Kenya are characterised and…
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In November – December 2017, Professor Dr. Felix Fuders from RLC Campus Valdivia at the Universidad Austral de Chile, spent a research term at the RLC Campus Bonn. His research focused on the privatisation and exploitation of natural resources, and its effects on economic efficiency, natural environment and on sustainable development. At the end of the…
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In November 2017, RLC Coordinator Till Stellmacher and Senior Researcher Girma Kelboro represented the work of the RLC at the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, and met with international political leaders and activists to discuss global environmental issues.
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Amit Kumar, PhD student at RLC Bonn, is currently conducting one year of fieldwork in the slums of Mumbai. In collaboration with Medha Patkar’s (Right Livelihood Award Laureate1991) “Ghar Banao Ghar Bachao Aandolan” movement Amit is investigating the collective resistance against demolitions of slum dwellers in Mumbai. His research aims at the alternative imagination to the…
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RLC PhD student Alejandro Mora-Motta published an article on the different economic theories that address the relationship between climate change and economic systems. They critically analyses the welfare economics viewpoint and propose a shift towards ecological economics, which is founded on strong sustainability, the irreducibility of uncertainty, and a different normative basis. The article that…
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