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Cecilie Friis is a Guest Researcher at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on how global structures interact with local social and environmental conditions to shape sustainable land use, livelihoods, and rural development. She is actively engaged in teaching and research related to globalization, land-use change, and sustainability transformations.
Her educational background includes a Dr Phil in Human Geography from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2017) and an MSc in Geography & Geoinformatics from the University of Copenhagen (2013).
Dr. Friis's research interests center on globalization and land-use change, sustainability transformation of agri-food systems, transnational land acquisitions, cash-crop booms in resource frontier regions, and ethnographic fieldwork methods. Her work primarily draws on fieldwork in Southeast Asia, particularly Laos, examining how global processes shape local land systems and livelihoods.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on crop booms and busts, sustainability narratives in global commodity chains, interdisciplinary frameworks for understanding land system dynamics, and the impacts of global shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic on land governance. Her research consistently bridges theoretical frameworks with empirical fieldwork to address questions of sustainability and equity in global land systems.
She has received the Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship (2019-2022) for her work on sustainability narratives in the maize-poultry trade between Thailand and the EU. She also co-coordinates the Global Land Programme Working Group for Telecoupling Research and contributes to the European Training Network COUPLED.
Dr. Friis is course responsible for the BSc course 'Land-use change in a Global Perspective' and contributes to several other courses including 'Human and Physical Geography,' 'Globalisation & Spatial Change in the Global South,' and 'Climate Change: an Interdisciplinary Challenge' in the MSc program. She also teaches in a PhD course on qualitative methods and research design.
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