About the section

The Head of Section is
Professor
Christian Lund
clund@ifro.ku.dk

The Section Secretary is Elsebeth Vidø

Climate change adaptation and rights

While the UN climate negotiations get underway in Poland, a new collaborative research effort has kicked off. The Rights and Resilience project – also known as RARE – will investigate the little studied connections between climate change adaptation and land rights.

The struggle for water in the Andes

In the Andes Mountains, Assistant Professor Mattias Borg Rasmussen at IFRO has learned about the local value and meanings of water. Here water is a symbol of life, a dwindling and complex resource and a creator of collaborations. Read about his research in Universitetsavisen

Yale prize for forestry project

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) recently won the tropical foresters' international innovation prize from Yale University. The Cambodian activists won for fighting illegal logging in the Prey Lang forest with peaceful community monitoring. They are using a Danish app developed as part of the IFRO project 'Community monitoring of forest resources in Cambodia'.
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