Sustainable development and governance

Research output

Research output per year 2013 2013 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2025

• 133 Journal Article
• 114 Internet Publication
• 107 Papers and Working Papers
• 71 Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts
• 359 More
  • 61 Book Chapter
  • 61 Newspaper Article
  • 57 DIIS Comment
  • 38 Report
  • 35 Newspaper - Comment, Debate
  • 24 Feature Article
  • 19 Longreads, DIIS Q&A, DIIS Interview and DIIS Blog
  • 15 Sound Production (digital)
  • 10 Book
  • 7 Anthology
  • 7 Report Chapter
  • 6 Journal Article - Comment, Debate
  • 6 Literature Review
  • 4 Surveys, Commissioned Reports, Evaluations and Policy Studies
  • 2 Ph.D. Thesis
  • 2 Article in Proceedings
  • 2 Visual Production (digital)
  • 1 Doctoral Thesis
  • 1 Journal Article - Editorial
  • 1 Journal Article - Review

Research output per year

Research output per year

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• 2025

  Baltic States’ synchronization with the continental grid: The last step towards energy independence?

  Slakaityte, V. & Surwillo, I., 6 Feb 2025, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1117 Downloads (Pure)

• China-MENA Relations in a Changing World Order and Green Transition

  Andersen, L. E. & Jiang, Y., 17 Mar 2025, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 20 p.

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

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  917 Downloads (Pure)

• China's Green Belt and Road: New business models adapt to new realities and enhance competitiveness

  Jiang, Y., 6 Mar 2025, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  685 Downloads (Pure)

• Steel and Spirit: Why Societal Resilience and Defence Industry Must Move Together

  Slakaityte, V. & Surwillo, I., 7 May 2025, Brussels: TEPSA - Trans European Policy Studies Association, (European Council Experts’ Debrief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

  Open Access
• 2024

  Climate-related losses and damages to social cohesion are overlooked

  Lindegaard, L. S. & Jarawura, F., 11 Jun 2024, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

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  488 Downloads (Pure)

• Danish Development cooperation experiences in contexts of autocratisation

  Fejerskov, A. M. & Rosengren Pejstrup, T., 26 Nov 2024, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Impact; No. November, Vol. 2024).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

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  485 Downloads (Pure)

• Future Danish engagement with Africa: Insights and priorities for Denmark´s new Africa strategy from DIIS’ partners across the continent

  Boatemaa Setrana, M., Hassan, R., Garba, F., Hassan, M. A., Zeleke Eresso, M., Fejerskov, A. M. (Editor), Kleist, N. (Editor) & Funder, M. (Editor), 22 Jan 2024, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. January, Vol. 2024).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

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  812 Downloads (Pure)

• Locally-led climate change adaptation works: Here are eight ways to support it

  Bedelian, C., Mulwa, J., Sumari, B., Rogers, P., Gravesen, M. L. & Funder, M., 9 Apr 2024, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief, Vol. 2024).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

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  524 Downloads (Pure)

• Partnerskaber om klimasikkerhed med Afrika kræver politiske kompromiser

  Dreyer, J., 12 Feb 2024, København: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief, Vol. 2024).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

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  601 Downloads (Pure)

• Stakeholder interests disrupt climate finance coordination

  Omala, M. & Gravesen, M. L., 30 Aug 2024, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

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  415 Downloads (Pure)

• The African Union's contested role in advancing gender equality

  Tornius, K., 5 Jan 2024, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief, Vol. 2024).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

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  842 Downloads (Pure)
• 2023

  Akut behov for øget viden om de politiske og demokratiske konsekvenser af nye forsvarsteknologier

  Fejerskov, A. M., Rosengren Pejstrup, T., Clausen, M.-L., Thranov, A., Berling, T. V. & Lang, J., 29 Mar 2023, København: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

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  163 Downloads (Pure)

• Employment effects of foreign agricultural investments – expectations unfulfilled?

  Ravnborg, H. M., Bashaasha, B., Broegaard, R. B., Byaruhanga, M., Lazaro, E., Maro, F., Mutabazi, K. & Tumusiime, D., 31 Oct 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  297 Downloads (Pure)

• How to encourage private sector climate initiatives in Kenya

  Mulwa, J. & Gravesen, M. L., 3 Jul 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1053 Downloads (Pure)

• Managing Africa's resources equitably demands accountable states

  Peter Albrecht, Marie Ladekjær Gravesen, Abel Gwaindepi et al. & Drew, J., 7 Nov 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  745 Downloads (Pure)

• Private investments in climate and sustainable development are still not catching on in Africa

  Gwaindepi , A. & Siebrits, K., 16 Nov 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  815 Downloads (Pure)

• Supporting pastoralists' adaptation to climate change: Beyond "one size fits all"

  Rotich, S., Marani, M. & Funder, M., 29 Nov 2023, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi.

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

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  487 Downloads (Pure)

• Three frontlines in Africa's resource conflicts: Green transitions, nature conservation and the drylands

  Albrecht, P. & Gravesen, M. L., 11 Sept 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  678 Downloads (Pure)

• What needs to change for green funds to be truly green

  Fichtner, J., Jaspert, R. & Petry, J., 14 Mar 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

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  1087 Downloads (Pure)

• Why adaptation projects do not stop climate-related migration

  Lindegaard, L. S., Kleist, N., Jarawura, F. & Teye, J., 16 Jun 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief, Vol. 2023).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1128 Downloads (Pure)

• Why land rights are important for climate action

  Funder, M., Atela, J., Nathan, I., Mollo, A., Tonui, C. & Aoko, L., 30 Nov 2023, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 4 p. (University of Nairobi Policy Briefs).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

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  151 Downloads (Pure)

• Women, peace and security beyond resolutions

  Tornius, K., Kolling, M. & Engberg-Pedersen, L., 24 Aug 2023, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

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  861 Downloads (Pure)
• 2022

  Decolonising academic collaboration: South-North perspectives

  Edle Ali, A., Mollo, A., Dzegblor , E., Dahiir, F., Nathan, I., Wachira Waiganjo , J., Atela, J., Kanyinga, K., Aning, K., Marani, M., Funder, M., Abdallah, M., Kleist, N., Stacey, P., Albrecht, P., Bembir, P., Hassan, R. & Rotich, S., 6 May 2022, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  2967 Downloads (Pure)

• How to support a rights-based approach to nature-based solutions: Recommendations for Danish development cooperation

  Funder, M. & Gravesen, M. L., 23 Feb 2022, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1764 Downloads (Pure)

• Making headway on Loss and Damage: Identifying key gaps and charting ways forward

  Lindegaard, L. S., White, H. & Shawoo, Z., 28 Oct 2022, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief, Vol. 2022).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

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  1029 Downloads (Pure)

• Three factors may spark violence in Kenya's 2022 elections

  Gravesen, M. L. & Muriu, E., 30 Mar 2022, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1660 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Denmark's 'techplomacy' efforts should confront inequalities: Diplomacy in the shadow of Silicon Valley

  Fejerskov, A. M., Schott, R. M., D'Ignazio, C. & Klein, L. F., 14 Oct 2021, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. October, Vol. 2021).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1915 Downloads (Pure)

• Development aid is unlikely to reduce migration from Africa: Migration, aid and economic progress

  Lucht, H., Engberg-Pedersen, L. & Vammen, I. M. S., 18 Nov 2021, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. November, Vol. 2021).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  2500 Downloads (Pure)

• Inside Independent Power Producers: Social performance perspectives from South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP)

  Wlokas, H., Jhetam, T., Funder, M. & Olsen, K. H., 8 Mar 2021, UNEP DTU/ DIIS / Stellenbosch University, 5 p. (TENTRANS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1458 Downloads (Pure)

• Integrating community development in public procurement of renewable energy generation: lessons from South Africa

  Funder, M., Wlokas, H. & Olsen, K. H., 3 Feb 2021, UNEP DTU/ DIIS / Stellenbosch University, 5 p. (TENTRANS Policy Brief).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  2083 Downloads (Pure)

• Long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic resource mobilisation in sub-Saharan Africa

  Fjeldstad, O.-H., Gopsill, A., Sjursen, I. H. & Therkildsen, O., 26 Aug 2021, Oslo: Chr. Michelsen Institute, p. 1-4, 4 p. (CMI Brief; No. 4, Vol. 2021).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

  Open Access

• Renewable energy in Africa is about more than climate change: Aid needed for both clean energy and local capacity

  Pedersen, R. H. & Winckler Andersen, O., 2021, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. March, Vol. 2021).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1110 Downloads (Pure)

• Risks of technology use in humanitarian settings: Avoiding harm, delivering impact

  Fejerskov, A. M., Clausen, M.-L. & Seddig, S., Aug 2021, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. August, Vol. 2021).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  2183 Downloads (Pure)

• The politics of climate finance coordination

  Lundsgaarde, E., Adams, K., Dupuy, K., Dzebo, A., Fejerskov, A. M., Funder, M., Shawoo, Z. & Skovgaard, J., Oct 2021, Stockholm Environment Institute, (SEI Policy Briefs).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Communication

  Open Access

• The UN should not accept member states’ using the women, peace and security agenda as gender-washing

  Kolling, M., 16 Dec 2021, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. December, Vol. 2021).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1556 Downloads (Pure)

• Vi mangler demokratisk kontrol over dansk forsvarsteknologi

  Lang, J., Fejerskov, A. M. & Seddig, S., 9 Dec 2021, København: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. December, Vol. 2021).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  206 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Climate change and peace in international operations: Ways forward for Denmark’s Ministry of Defence

  Larsen, J. & Funder, M., 23 Nov 2020, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. November, Vol. 2020).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  2789 Downloads (Pure)

• Danish civil-society organizations need to sharpen their innovation focus: Maturing ‘techvelopment’

  Fejerskov, A. M. & Fetterer, D., May 2020, Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, (DIIS Policy Brief; No. May, Vol. 2020).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1786 Downloads (Pure)

• The traumas of Ethiopian male migrants: Re-integration efforts must put vulnerabilities at the centre

  Fejerskov, A. M. & Zeleke, M., 25 Mar 2020, Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. February, Vol. 2020).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1985 Downloads (Pure)

• Three steps to integrate climate change adaptation and development: Addressing resilience in Danish development policy

  Funder, M., Lindegaard, L. S., Friis-Hansen, E. & Gravesen, M. L., 20 May 2020, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 2 p. (DIIS Impact; No. May, Vol. 2020).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

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  2110 Downloads (Pure)

• War on the virus: Military responses to COVID-19

  Fejerskov, A. M. & Lang, J., 8 Dec 2020, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. December, Vol. 2020).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  3146 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Coordinating Climate Finance: Lessons from Zambia

  Dupuy, K., Sambo, P. T., Funder, M. & Chama, E., 1 Nov 2019, Oslo: Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), 6 p. (PRIO Policy Briefs, Vol. 2019).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  691 Downloads (Pure)

• Danmarks vej til et fornyet udviklingsarbejde: Ti anbefalinger

  Fejerskov, A. M., 13 Jun 2019, Danish Institute for International Studies, p. 1-4, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. Juni, Vol. 2019).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  188 Downloads (Pure)

• Disinformation goes South: Political technologies threaten developing countries

  Fejerskov, A. M. & Hansen, F. S., 5 Jul 2019, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, p. 1-4, (DIIS Policy Brief; No. July, Vol. 2019).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  2091 Downloads (Pure)

• Global norms, gender equality and development cooperation: the need to build on strong local support to change gender relations

  Engberg-Pedersen, L., 22 May 2019, Royal Institute Elcano.

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

• Has the Paris Declaration Disappeared? Revisiting the Aid Effectiveness Agenda

  Lundsgaarde, E. & Engberg-Pedersen, L., 2019, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, (DIIS Policy Brief; No. July, Vol. 2019).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1134 Downloads (Pure)

• Preparatory study for an evaluation of Danida's climate change mitigation funding

  Pedersen, M. V., Cardoso, A., Canu, F. A. & Funder, M., 18 Dec 2019, 34 p.

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned

• Preparatory Study for the Danida 2019 Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation

  Lindegaard, L. S., Funder, M. & Friis-Hansen, E., Mar 2019, 23 p.

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Commissioned
• 2018

  Citizens engage local government: Social mobilisation

  Webster, N., 18 Dec 2018, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. December, Vol. 2018).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  723 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  How climate resettlement can work for communities: Climate change and Planned Relocation

  Lindegaard, L. S. & Funder, M., 10 Nov 2017, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief; No. November, Vol. 2017).

  Research output: Working Paper, Paper, Policy Brief, Brief, Impact › Policy Briefs, Briefs and Impacts › Research

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  1604 Downloads (Pure)