Section for Global Development

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The group engages in inter-disciplinary research on economic, political, environmental, and institutional dynamics in developing countries.

Research areas include issues of livelihoods, small-scale industry, trade, and labour; of climate change mitigation and adaptation; of forest and natural resource management; of resource conflicts and land grabbing; and of governance, state formation, and corruption.

Currently, research takes place in Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal. 

Professor Carsten Smith-Hall is head of the section for Global Development. 

 

Head of section

Professor Carsten Smith-Hall

cso@ifro.ku.dk

Section Secretary

Charlotte Bukdahl Jacobsen

cja@ifro.ku.dk

Staff of the section

Publications of the section

Research news
Climate

International research team: World's climate plans make for a worrying read

According to the climate plans submitted to the UN by 50 countries, 12 gigatons of CO2 per year will continue to be emitted by 2050 – and need to be removed from the atmosphere. Among other things, countries are betting on technology and nature restoration to solve the problem of residual emissions. University of Copenhagen researchers and others describe this as worrying. The researchers recommend rapid reductions here and now.

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PhD studies at IFRO