Contact: Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development is one of University of Copenhagen, Faculty of SCIENCE’s thematic initiatives aimed at collecting and visualizing the resources, knowledge and ideas present within the theme.
The Sustainable Development initiative facilitates the exchange of knowledge and research on sustainable development across SCIENCE's departments. The initiative is led by the Sustainable Development working group and represents the collective voice on sustainable development research at the faculty of SCIENCE.
Please do not hesitate to use the contacts below if you have questions about the Sustainable Development initiative at SCIENCE.
The Sustainable Development working group:
 idat@ifro.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 33 17 42
Mobile: +45 60 22 34 10 |
Ida Theilade (Chair)
Professor
Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO).
Description:
Ida Theilade has worked with management and conservation of tropical forests for the past 25 years. Her main research interests are in the areas of indigenous knowledge and natural resource management in relation to agricultural systems and tropical forests.
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 hfr@nexs.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 33 38 60 |
Henrik Friis
Professor
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports (NEXS).
Description:
The last thirty years Henrik Friis has done research with collaborators in Africa and Asia. The focus of his research has been nutrition in relation to infections (ie parasites, TB and HIV), but also pregnancy and lactation, early growth and development, chronic diseases and interactions between infectious and chronic diseases.
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 nf@ign.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 25 61
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Niels Fold
Professor
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN).
Description:
Niels Fold’s research addresses the relationship between economic-geographic globalization processes and local responses, primarily examined through the analytical lens of global value chains (GVCs). He has specialized in agro-industrial value chains that connect producers in the Global South and consumers in the Global North.
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nscharff@snm.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 11 07
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Nikolaj Scharff
Head of collections
Natural History Museum of Denmark (SNM)
Description:
Nikolaj Scharff has the responsibility for all geological, botanical and zoological collections. His primary fields of research are phylogeny and comparative morphology of spiders in general.
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 peho@plen.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 33 24 14
Mobile: +45 30 50 77 14
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Peter Engelund Holm
Professor
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN).
Description:
Peter Engelund Holm works at the Section for Environmental Chemistry and Physics.
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 om@ign.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 25 29
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Ole Mertz
Professor
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN).
Description:
Ole Mertz' research and teaching responsibilities focus on global environmental change, land use transitions and food security in the Global South. Specifically, he has worked for two decades on the dynamics of forest-agriculture frontiers looking at how changes in land use affect socio-economic and environmental systems.
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Administrative support
Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Bülowsvej 17, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C.
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