Vacancy — PhD Candidate on the Political Economy of Housing and Health (Quantitative) <p><span>Do you want to pursue a PhD studying how housing policies impact health inequalities? Are you interested in working in an interdisciplinary and mixed-method team? We currently offer a PhD-pro...

I am looking for two PhD candidates for my NWO-Vidi project DWELLWELL: Towards a political economy of housing and health at the Urban Geography group at University of Amsterdam.

Quantitative position: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Qualitative position: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Dit is zó erg, zo allesbepalend voor onze toekomst. En geen haan die er naar kraait.

Als je sluitend bewijs zoekt voor de collectieve ontkenning dan is dit het wel. Politiek en media houden vast aan een wereld die niet meer bestaat, uit angst voor de realiteit.

Communistisch idee van UvA-geograaf Hochstenbach 😍

Ik word eindelijk erkend door de Dagelijkse Standaard

Ik sluit het stuk af met een aantal beleidsopties, waaronder het makkelijker maken woningen te delen en hier meer rekening te houden bij toewijzing. Maar ook door fiscale prikkels (zoals het evenredig belasten van woningwaarde)

Kijken we naar woningeigendom, dan is ruim wonen de standaard onder huiseigenaren. Woningcorporaties slagen er nog het best in hun huurders passend te huisvesten (hier: niet te ruim of te krap).

Houden we deze indeling aan, dan zien we dat 79% van de rijkste 10% Nederlandse huishoudens een (sterk) overdadige woonruimte consumptie kent.

Onder lagere inkomens is dit weliswaar een stuk minder wijdverbreid, maar komt ruim wonen alsnog regelmatig voor.
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Ik gebruik hiervoor een classificering van Horn et al (2025) naar gebrekkig, voldoende, overdadig en sterk overdadig ruimtegebruik. Zie hier de classificering en het onderliggende paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ik schreef een analyse voor ESB over de ongelijke verdeling van woonruimte (vierkante meters) in Nederland. Ruim de helft van alle huishoudens woont ruim, maar dit aandeel is veel groter onder hoge inkomens en huiseigenaren.
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esb.nu/herverdeling...

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.

Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

Countries' carbon dioxide removal plans pose substantial threats to biodiversity, new research reveals.

Analysis by the scientists shows that up to 13% of global areas of high biodiversity importance are allocated for land-intensive CDR deployment. 🧵

Flaxman Terrace - six-storey redbrick tenement block

Goldington Court - six-storey tenement block

🚨 New on Substack: St Pancras was described as 'the Filth-hole and Sewage-yard of London' but in 1909 its new council housing could only cater for the 'better class of working men and women' ...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/housing-in...

America in 2026: 34 people control 12% of the income.

gzucman.substack.com/p/standing-u...

So the new paper…

—finds that immigration economics is identical to other fields of empirical inquiry: researcher priors correlate with results

—finds that the magnitude of this correlation is minuscule

—does not mention the most prominent documented bias of this kind, from one of the authors.

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints The provision of decent housing is both a global social priority and a productive activity with long-term environmental implications. Investigating th…

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Give the paper a read if you are interested. I am very happy with it because it's a truly interdisciplinary effort (combining planning, urban geography and industrial ecology) and because it links my housing expertise to climate change

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Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...

Can't believe my book Beyond Generation Rent is nearly out! 16th Jan is UK/Euro release. It will be available in ebook, paperback & hard copy. Feeling a bit nervous about its reception @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @daraturnbull.bsky.social @kengibb.bsky.social

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Our findings show that the GHG emissions of the highest income groups are higher despite their ability to install solar panels, heat pumps, insulation etc.

This is mostly an outcome of their more suburban residential patterns, increasing car dependency. This drives GHG emissions
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We (Federico Savini, Mira Kopp, Leshem Cohen, Peter Berrill, Stefano Merciai and I) study inequalities in housing-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Netherlands.

We combine full-population registers, mobility surveys and life cycle inventory data
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Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints The provision of decent housing is both a global social priority and a productive activity with long-term environmental implications. Investigating th…

Great way to start the new year with a new publication in Ecological Economics!

"Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints"
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doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Experts warn ongoing concern with Atlantic Ocean will be direct threat to dozens of nations: 'Consequences for at least 1,000 years to come' "A huge responsibility for the decision makers of today."

A recent study by Dutch colleagues shows that a shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries.
That is a thus far underappreciated risk of climate change.
@swinda.bsky.social
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Fossil-fuel extraction massively outweighs critical mineral mining needs (quite literally)

– We dig up tens of billions of tonnes of stuff every year to produce coal, oil & gas
– Raw-material extraction for critical minerals would be a fraction of that, even under net-zero

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We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Explaining Perceptions of Unfair Treatment: Theoretical Arguments and Empirical Evidence from Ethnic Minorities, Women and Students - AMCIS In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Claudia Diehl discusses to what extent the various mechanisms that have been proposed to explain perceived ethnic discrimination apply to other disadvantaged groups and othe...

On Thursday we host Claudia Diehl for the year's last AMCIS Seminar: "Explaining Perceptions of Unfair Treatment: Theoretical Arguments & Empirical Evidence from Ethnic Minorities, Women & Students"

Info & registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Social Ladders: The Weight of Social Mobility - AMCIS In this talk, Dr Anthony Miro Born (London School of Economics and Political Science) critically explores the ideal of social mobility.

Tomorrow, we host @miroborn.bsky.social for an AMCIS Seminar on "Social Ladders: The Weight of Social Mobility" where he will critically explores the ideal of social mobility.

Info and registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
@aissr.bsky.social

Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source - Scientific Reports Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...

Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa

Voor het eerst in jaren is de nieuwbouw door woningcorporaties flink toegenomen. In 2024 bouwden ze bijna 22.000 nieuwe woningen, in 2023 waren dat er nog zo'n 16.500.

De netto groei is een stuk lager: corporaties verkopen (3.400 woningen aan toekomstige bewoners) en slopen (8.000 woningen) nl ook

Reminder: next Wednesday we host @tevoelker.bsky.social at the AMCIS Seminar who will talk on the Far Right, with our colleagues Jaron Harambam and @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social as discussants.

⬇️ More info + registration below

@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
@aissr.bsky.social

Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

Also see this recent article in the Guardian discussing Teresa's work:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...