Dr. Juliet Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. She is a political ecologist focused on conflicts and governance issues around resource extraction and intensive land use. She studies transnational land investments (primarily Chinese rubber plantations in Laos), the promotion of monoculture plantations at the expense of more biodiverse systems, and the rise of private sector sustainable governance initiatives worldwide.
UVic’s Environmental Governance Group (envirogov.org) at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia, Canada is seeking applications for a Master’s student to conduct research on environmental governance and political economy of cocoa in Cameroon. The position will begin in September 2027. Read the complete…
Continue reading...
We are inviting applications for a funded Master's position at the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, University of British Columbia (Vancouver), starting in September 2027. Explore the interrelations of land tenure, traceability, and sustainability in the cocoa sector in Ghana. The position is part…
Continue reading...
We are happy to announce the launch of the Tracing Forest Risk along Commodity Chains (TRACC) project ! Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the project will run from 2026 to 2031, and asks how sustainable supply chain initiatives ‘see’ deforestation, what they…
Continue reading...