R.J. van Duijne PhD (Robbin Jan)

I am a geographer with primary research interests in regional development, agrarian transformations, migration, and climate change impacts. My PhD research on India’s Emergent Urban Formations was funded by an NWO Research Talent Grant, and published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, World Development, Economic Geography, and the Economic and Political Weekly.

I have recently completed an NWO Embassy Science Fellowship at the Dutch Embassy in New Delhi. As a research attaché, I aim to inform Dutch foreign policy on issues of climate change impacts and agrarian vulnerability in India. The fellowship is funded through the NWO ESF-NL programme.

I was recently awarded an NWO Rubicon grant to continue my postdoctoral research at Columbia University's Climate School in New York. I work with CIESIN, a research group that specializes in integrating data from the natural sciences (climate data) and the social sciences (population census data) to study population-environment interactions.

Contact via: r.j.vanduijne@utwente.nl

Expertise

• Social Sciences

  • Process
  • Urbanization
  • India
  • Understanding

• Economics, Econometrics and Finance

  • Urban Growth
  • Labor Migration
  • Employment
  • Economics

Organisations

I am a geographer with primary research interests in regional development, agrarian transformations, migration, and climate change impacts. My PhD research on India’s Emergent Urban Formations was funded by an NWO Research Talent Grant, and published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, World Development, Economic Geography, and the Economic and Political Weekly.

I have recently completed an NWO Embassy Science Fellowship at the Dutch Embassy in New Delhi. As a research attaché, I aim to inform Dutch foreign policy on issues of climate change impacts and agrarian vulnerability in India. The fellowship is funded through the NWO ESF-NL programme.

I was recently awarded an NWO Rubicon grant to continue my postdoctoral research at Columbia University's Climate School in New York. I work with CIESIN, a research group that specializes in integrating data from the natural sciences (climate data) and the social sciences (population census data) to study population-environment interactions.

Contact via: r.j.vanduijne@utwente.nl

Publications

Research profiles

Current projects

Can Indian farmers weather the storm? Towards a better regional understanding of agrarian distress

Project that investigates India's agrarian crises (plural), and the regional variability and determinants of agrarian distress. The project is funded through NWO's Embassy Science Fellowship (ESF-NL) programme.

The Age of Climate Migration: towards more accurate forecasting approaches of climate mobility

Climate change impacts threaten the livelihoods of millions of agrarian households in the developing world. Labour migration appears to offer a way out. Climate migration in 250,000 Indian settlements is used to test new forecasting approaches. Results provide insights into agrarian populations in distress and future labour migration flows.

Finished projects

India's emergent urban formations

This project directs attention away from the big Northern city, and contributes to the urgent need to improve our understanding of the nature of urbanization processes at the lower ends of the urban hierarchy. The geographical focus is on urbanizing India.

Organisations