PhD project: 

CurveBend-NL: Reconciling ecological and human lifescapes through collective action in Dutch dairy farming-dominated landscapes

The PhD project is part of the larger CurveBend project with focus at the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, livestock farming areas face a range of challenges including ecosystem degradation, climate change, and biodiversity decline, and novel ways to collaborate and to develop and implement solutions are explored. In this project, various collective actions aimed at restoring characteristic grassland biodiversity of plants, invertebrates and birds in the Netherlands are compared. The primary study sites will be in the provinces Noord- and Zuid-Holland, and Friesland; the wetter, lower parts of the country where dairy farming is an important rural land use.