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Pia Rattenhuber
Pia Rattenhuber is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She has previously worked for OECD (Department of Labour and Social Affairs), the German Ministry of Economics and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
News
Workshop Explores Bioenergy Development in Japan
UNU-IAS co-hosted a workshop on Future Perspectives of Bioenergy Development in Japan: An Alternative Scenario with Domestic Supply.
Project
Children and Extreme Violence: Cradled by Conflict
Understanding child recruitment by armed groups, including terrorist organizations, and identifying obstacles to releasing children from such groups.
News
The Flip from Fraught Use to Assumed Mobile Use
UNU Macau researcher Juhee Kang delivered a talk based on her research about the mobile use among North Korean women in South Korea.
News
Gender Equality Featured by UNU Sustainable Development Explorer
Led by UNU Macau, the EQUALS Research Group is an important research partnership addressing SDG#5.
News
Workshop Details Findings on Global Important Agricultural Heritage Systems in East Asia
The event was held as part of a UNU-IAS project on monitoring and evaluation methods for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
News
New Visiting Research Assistant
Catriona Craven-Matthews will be visiting research assistant of UNU Macau. She focuses on human rights, migration, gender, and human trafficking.
News
Policy Brief Provides Guidance for Upscaling the SDGs in Higher Education
Recommendations for better bridging the potential of the higher education sector with the sustainable development agenda.
Media Coverage
Why MONUSCO Should Focus on Protection Instead of Going Back on the Offensive
The killing of fourteen UN peacekeepers were in the Democratic Republic of the Congo earlier this month.
Project
Addressing Wicked Resource Management Problems
This project aims at identifying ways to better handle wicked resource management problems, both from a management and from a governance perspective.