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Welcome to our new students!

October 9, 2019
Student cohort of 2019-20

Balaton retreat pictures from mid-September of 2019.

Each year we start at the department with a retreat to the lake, this Fall we went to Balatonfüred. As usual, the first day was dedicated to some activities to get to know each other, to do some team building work on environmental issues as well as dip in the lake. The second day we had our usual tour to the Balaton Upland National  Park. 

The retreat was attended by MESP, MESPOM, 1st year PhD, faculty and staff.

Join the Missing Maps Mapathon - Mapping for Humanitarian Good

October 8, 2019
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On 14 of October, to mark the International DRR Day, the Department's Environmental Systems Laboratory (Syslab) will organize a Missing Maps Mapathon, a crowdsourcing event that will help map the most vulnerable places in the developing world.

Join Disaster Risk Reduction Day & Mapathon at CEU!

October 7, 2019
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On 14 of October, the Department's Environmental Systems Laboratory (Syslab) will organize the Disaster Risk Reduction Day to increase risk-awareness and present how Geographic Information Systems and International Policies can help manage disasters. 

Alumna Dr. Yolanda Ariadne has drawn on her dissertation to publish two journal articles

Dr. Yolanda Ariadne Collins defended her Dissertation titled “REDD+ Unravelled: A Discursive Analysis of Neoliberal Forest Conservation in Guyana and Suriname” at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy in May, 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Guntra Aistara.

The future of electricity storage: report for the Austrian Parliament, co-authored by our PhD candidate, Steffen Bettin

Environmental Sciences and Policy PhD Candidate Steffen Bettin co-authored a report for the Austrian Parliament at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) on the future of electricity storage. In the study, various storage technologies, e.g.