3 results match your criteria: "International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam[Affiliation]"
The global climate of land politics.
Globalizations
September 2021
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, Netherlands.
Article Synopsis
- Land is essential for economic production and plays a role in climate change, linking land usage to environmental impacts.
- The prevailing climate action strategies focus on 'land tenure security', which often reinforces existing inequalities and undemocratic structures that contribute to climate issues.
- There's a call for reshaping global land politics to address social inequities and promote fair distribution of land and resources, ensuring benefits for working-class populations.
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements.
Agric Human Values
September 2021
College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University, No. 2 West Yuanmingyuan Road, Haidan District, Beijing, 100193 People's Republic of China.
This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labour in the context of production and social reproduction, a view that in the context of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers necessarily requires interrelated perspectives on labour, agrarian, and food justice struggles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrans fat and cardiovascular disease mortality: Evidence from bans in restaurants in New York.
J Health Econ
January 2016
The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kortenaerkade 12, 2518 AX Den Haag, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
This paper analyzes the impact of trans fat bans on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates. Several New York State jurisdictions have restricted the use of ingredients containing artificial trans fat in food service establishments. The resulting within-county variation over time and the differential timing of the policy's rollout is used in estimation.
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