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Ongoing Research Projects

Alcohol-socialisation of young people in Zurich. In collaboration with Stadt Zürich Suchtpräventionsstelle

  • Contact: S. Landolt
  • Duration: Dec 2011 - July 2012

Everyday production of the law: the appropriation of space by internal migrants in urban Kyrgyzstan

  • Contact: C. Hatcher
  • Funding SNF (Programm NFS/NCCR)
  • Duration: Sep 2010 to Jun 2013

Migration, Knowledge and Development: The role of knowledge and skills in the migration process in South and Central Asia

  • Contact: S. Thieme
  • Funding SNF (Programm NFS/NCCR)
  • Duration: July 2009 - June 2013

Contested Rural Development

  • Contact: U. Geiser
  • Funding SNF (Programm NFS/NCCR)
  • Duration: July 2009 - June 2013

Livelihood Futures in Resource-scarce Areas

  • Contact: Prof. Dr. U. Müller-Böker
  • Funding: SNF (Programm NFS/NCCR), Other Public Sources (e.g. Federal or Cantonal Agencies)
  • Duration:  Jul 2009 to Jun 2013

Institutions, Livelihoods and Conflicts (Phase 3 of NCCR-North-South)

  • Contact: U. Müller-Böker, U. Geiser
  • Funding SNF (Programm NFS/NCCR), Other Public Sources (e.g. Federal or Cantonal Agencies), SDC
  • Duration: July 2009 - June 2013

Mobility and Migration: Confusing terms, varying regional relevance, conflicting policies?

  • Contact: S. Thieme, E. Schelling
  • Funding SNF (Programm NFS/NCCR)
  • Duration: Dec 2010 to Dec 2012

Poverty-oriented development policy beyond the Millennium Development Goals

  • Contact: U. Geiser
  • Funding SNF (Programm NFS/NCCR)
  • Duration: Jul 2010 to Jun 2012

Negotiating rural development in South Asia’s periphery

Landscape perception and transdisciplinarity

“Malaysia as a home”: Sustainable landscape development, environmental perception and practice

Views of the rural poor: Understanding their perceptions, resources and constraints in two territories in Honduras

  • Contact: S. Contzen
  • Funding: Research Fellow Partnership Programm (RFPP; coordinated by North-South Centre ETHZ) Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
  • Duration: June 2008 to May 2011
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