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Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln

Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands.           […]

Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin

Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands. The program is […]

Stockholm GIS workshop, Feb 2014

REAL ESRs participated in the QGIS and R statistical analysis training held 10-14 February at Stockholm University. The QGIS training, organised by the department of Human Geography at Stockholm University included basic GIS exercises, followed by intermediate and advanced GIS analyses involving spatial data analysis, working with terrain data, and accessing public domain geographic data. […]

PAGES Human-Environment Interactions Workshop, Feb. 2014

Towards a more accurate quantification of human-environment interactions in the past. Several REAL members attended the PAGES focus 4 workshop at the University of Leuven, Belgium, between February 3-7, 2014. The focus of the workshop was the quantification of human-environment interactions and how to improve quantification accuracy, especially in large-scale reconstructions of past land use […]

Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln

Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands.           […]

Geert van der Plas

Position: Early-stage researcher Address: Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Email: geert.vanderplas@ugent.be Website: UGent webpage LinkedIn profile Supervisor: Dirk Verschuren Bio: Hi, my name is Geert. I am attached to REAL as an ESR, based at Ghent University. I will be reconstructing past landscape and environmental changes in […]

Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin

Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands.     The […]

Uppsala hosts a kick-off meeting for REAL members

The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Uppsala hosted a kick-off party from 19-23 November, 2013, giving all the members of the REAL Initial Training Network a chance to meet and discuss their ongoing and upcoming projects.  

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