Research about the causes and implications of inequality is ongoing, and this workshop aims at both providing some answers and promote further efforts. Understanding the roots of inequality is an important issue, and the first step to designing measures aimed at promoting equality of opportunity.

This one-day workshop discusses future directions of social inequality research. It especially welcomes young scholars’ work in progress (graduate students and post-docs).

Seminar Programme: Panel 1: Natural resource governance, climate change and well-being Panel 2: Security, development and inequality Panel 3: Spatial knowledge in informal settlements and flood risk management

The socioeconomic gradient in health has been described by some as one of the most intriguing questions for the social sciences. While its universal existence is well known, less is known about the relative roles played by various potential mechanisms in causing it. During this workshop we bring...