Colloquium 2011

Programme (PDF, 55 KB)

Presentation

Lilian Fankhauser (Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies,  University of Berne and WIDE Switzerland):
A Gender perspective in  different steps of research
Slides (PDF, 472 KB)

Food Security and Health I

• Shanker Barsila Raj: Transhumance Livestock Herding in Eastern Mountains of Nepal (ETH Zurich, Prof. M. Kreuzer)
  Abstract (PDF, 30 KB)
• Rebecca Cors:Role of P management in promoting food security and sustainable livelihoods: Assessing managment strategies for smallholder farm systems (ETH Zurich, Prof. R. Scholz)
  Abstract (PDF, 33 KB), Slides (PDF, 2.4 MB)
• Monica Berger Gonzalez: Maya and Contemporary Conceptions of  Cancer, cultural formation of environmental literacy (MACOCC) (ETH Zurich, Prof. R. Scholz)
  Abstract (PDF, 32 KB), Slides (PDF, 2.2 MB)
• Elizabeth Tilley: Liquid Gold: A urine market to incentive sanitation in South Africa (ETH Zurich, Prof. I. Günther)
  Slides (PDF, 991 KB)

Social and economic aspects of development research I

• Laura Metzger: Assessing aid effectiveness (ETH Zurich, Prof. I. Günther)
  Slides (PDF, 283 KB)
• Luregn Lenggenhager: Promoting conservation as a "global  solution" in a historically fragmented region. The KAZA Peace Park  in Southern Africa. (University of Zurich, Prof. G. Krüger)
  Abstract (PDF, 28 KB) Slides (PDF, 585 KB)

Food Security II

• Ravi Anjanappa: Reducing the impact of cassava brown streak  disease in Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) (ETH Zurich, Prof. W. Gruissem)
  Abstract (PDF, 36 KB)
  
• Michael Curran: The external environmental costs of agriculture -  Assessing compensation payments as a means of applying the  "Polluter-Pays Principal" to biodiversity loss (ETH Zurich, Prof. S. Hellweg)
  Abstract (PDF, 26 KB), Slides (PDF, 6.6 MB)

Architecture and housing

• Fernanda Maria Lonardoni: Rental housing: alternatives and  constraints for the slum dwellers in Brazil (EPFL, Prof. J.C. Bolay)
  Abstract (PDF, 27 KB), Slides (PDF, 3.0 MB)
• Pascal Kallenberger: Howrah the other Kolkata: The planning and  making of poverty in a contemporary Indian city (ETH Zurich, Prof.  C. Schmid)
  Abstract (PDF, 26 KB), Slides (PDF, 3.4 MB)
• Andrea Hagn: Grounding India's National Urban Renewal Mission –  preliminary findings from the ancient temple town Puri, Orissa (ETH Zurich, Prof. D. Eberle)
  Abstract (PDF, 30 KB), Slides (PDF, 448 KB)

Social and economic aspects of development research II

• Silva Lieberherr: Tracking a fluid social movement – the case of  ‘farmer suicides’ in Vidarbha, India (University of Zurich, Prof. U.  Müller-Böker)
  Abstract (PDF, 26 KB), Slides (Adobe FlashPlayer, 4.4 MB)