Welcome...

R.J. van Duijne PhD (Robbin Jan)

Researcher

About Me

I am a geographer with primary research interests in urban and regional development, agrarian transformations, migration, and climate change impacts. I have regional expertise and fieldwork experience in South Asia, particularly India. My PhD research on India’s Emergent Urban Formations was funded by an NWO Research Talent Grant, and published in a range of international journals such as the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, World Development, and the Economic and Political Weekly. For my postdoctoral research at the PGM department of the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation I am investigating how agrarian communities in Central India respond and adapt to climate change. Increasingly erratic weather patterns push hundreds of millions of people out of their agrarian livelihoods which sets them adrift in search for alternative ways to forge a living.

 

I am currently working as an Embassy Science Fellow at the Dutch Embassy in New Delhi. As a research attaché, my work helps 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 on NWO Rubicon grant titled "The Age of Climate Migration: towards more accurate forecasting approaches of climate mobility".

 

Contact via: r.j.vanduijne@utwente.nl

Expertise

Social Sciences
India
Livelihood
Urban Geography
Urbanization
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Census
Labor Migration
Privatization
Urban Geography

Publications

Recent
van Duijne, R. J. (2023). Het tijdperk van klimaatmigratie? Geografie, 2023(1), 6-9.
van Duijne, R. J., Nijman, J., & Choithani, C. (2022). Injected urbanism? Exploring India’s urbanizing periphery. Economic Geography, 99(2), 161-190. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2022.2133696
van Duijne, R. J. (2021). India's emergent urban formations. [PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation external, University of Amsterdam].
Choithani, C. , van Duijne, R. J., & Nijman, J. (2021). Changing livelihoods at India’s rural–urban transition. World Development, 146, 1-17. Article 105617. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105617
van Duijne, R. J., & Nijman, J. (2019). India’s emergent urban formations. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(6), 1978-1900. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1587285

UT Research Information System

Google Scholar Link

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
The Netherlands

Navigate to location

Mailing Address

University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

Working days

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Even
Odd