Coordinated by Ruy Blanes of the University of Gothenburg and Euclides Gonçalves do Kaleidoscopio, the research project entitled Gas Gospels: Un/Sustainable Development and Environmental Risk in Mozambique explores the tension between the high potential of the extractive industry in Mozambique. in particular liquefied natural gas and hydrocarbons and Objectives 7 and 13 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.
The research will focus on how government institutions, aid and development agencies, civil society organizations and the private sector engage in these local and global debates. The research team includes Lisa Åkesson and Ana Rodrigues Vasse of the University of Gothenburg and Bjørn Bertelsen of the University of Bergen. The project will be based on field research in regions of the country where the intersection of environmental disasters and extractive projects is more visible.
The research proposal entitled Diversity, sustainability and cultural transformation in Southern Mozambique, coordinated by Décio Muiaga, was selected for funding by the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA).
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, the BIEA is an institution dedicated to supporting historical, archeological and other social and human sciences in East Africa.
Atanásio Tembe and Anésio Manhiça are part of the group of grantees of the National Research Fund (FNI / FSPI 2019) aimed at strengthening research in the Social Sciences, Humanities and and Environment.
The research proposal Travel Behavior in Maputo: Dynamics of Public Transport, Motorization and Poverty coordinated by Atanásio Tembe and Anselmo Matusse was selected in the category “Research Projects” and the proposal Great Businessmen in Action: Practices and Entrepreneurial Discourses Within the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA), Anésio Manhiça was selected in the category “Research Papers for Master’s and Doctoral Theses.”
