Students visit lead architect Bill Price and staff at WSP London
On January 10th, 2020, a group of students of land economy had a unique opportunity to visit lead architect Bill Price and his staff at WSP London that was formed over 125 years ago out of a group of companies of MRM Partnership, Kennedy and Donkin and Merz and McLellan now known as WSP specializing in engineering, architecture, and design. They have been ranked number 1 by ENR’s latest top 225 international design in the world.
21st annual BIOECON conference
Prof Andreas Kontoleon (Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University) co-hosted the 21st annual BIOECON conference on the economics of biodiversity conservation between the 11th and the 13th of September 2019 at Wageningen, The Netherlands. This year’s conference was titled “Inequality and poverty in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management” and was co-hosted with the University of Wageningen and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig.
Prof Jorge Viñuales has been elected to the Institut de Droit International
The Department is delighted to announce that Professor Jorge E. Viñuales, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at Cambridge, has been elected to the Institute of International Law at its Hague Session of 2019.
Former lecturer in the Dept of Land Economy Dr Diane Dawson has sadly passed away
Over the summer, the Department were sorry to learn of the passing away of Dr Diane Dawson, former lecturer in the Department and a life fellow of Corpus Christi at the age of 76.
Özge Öner awarded Young Researcher Award 2019
On Thursday Özge Öner, IFN and the University of Cambridge, received the Young Researcher Award 2019 for "significant contributions to our understanding of entrepreneurship.
A warm welcome to our new cohort of MSt in Real Estate students 2019
During their first two-week residential our 2019-21 cohort of students have enjoyed an intense series of introductory lectures and discussion sessions from leading experts in the field, and a field trip to find out the latest developments at London King’s Cross. As well as attending their matriculation dinner the group have also enjoyed punting on the Cam and sampling a brew at the famous Eagle pub.
Seminar 30th September 2019: Welcoming incoming Real Estate Finance graduate students
Welcoming the incoming Real Estate Finance graduate students, Tom Bloxham MBE (Chairman Urban Splash) will speak about innovation in development with a focus on Urban Splash leading the way in the development of MMC and modular development.
Annual meeting of Society for Environmental Law and Economics
The twelfth annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics will be held on Monday and Tuesday, June 22 & 23, 2020, at the Department of Land Economy and Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. We hope to build upon the great success of past meetings, and continue to build a community of environmental scholars interested in working in the intersection of law, economics, and environmental or natural resource issues. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers, as well as studies looking at problems at local, state, national, and international levels.