Dr. ir. C.F. (Crelis) Rammelt
Associate Professor (UD1) Environmental Geography and International Development Studies
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
GPIO : Governance and Inclusive Development
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: B4.15
Postal address
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Postbus 15629
1001 NC Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Dr Crelis Rammelt is an Associate Professor (UD1) in environmental geography and development studies at the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. He is also teaching at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, at the UvA Faculty of Science His research and teaching focus on forging links across disciplinary divides—mostly in the areas of political ecology, post-development, degrowth and systems science. Crelis has also been involved in establising the Dutch degrowth plaform Ontgroei and leading an action research and social justice programme with practitioners in Bangladesh.
Expertise and research fields
- Political Ecology
- Degrowth
- Post-Development
- Ecological Economics
Administrative role
- Member of management team Future Planet Studies
- Coordinator Future Society Track for Future Planet Studies
Relevant links
The Governance and Inclusive Development research group at the AISSR
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Research
Research methods
- Systems thinking
- System dynamics
- Action research
- Mixed methods
Current research projects
- A safe and just corridor for people and planet: How do we avoid crossing safe planetary boundaries in a just way?
- Degrowing unequal exchange: How should the net appropriation of resources be downscaled in order to achieve justice for the peripheries of the global South
Research grants & honours
Received the UNSW University International Postgraduate Award (PhD). Collaborated on various successful grant applications, including for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Queensland Department of Community Safety, UNSW International Research Collaboration, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, public and private funding partners (including Prince Bernhard Culture Fund, JICA, WaterAid).
Current cooperations
- Co-founder of the Dutch degrowth plaform Ontgroei
- Co-founder of the Arsenic Mitigation and Research Foundation in Bangladesh
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Teaching & PhD supervision
- BA courses: System Dynamics (Toekomstige Uitdagingen en Innovatieve Oplossingen course); Degrowth (UvA-wide elective); Quality of Life Research; Bachelor Project Future Planet Studies Future Society Track thesis supervision (on Unequal Exchange, Metabolic Rift, Degrowth)
- MA courses: Spatial Sustainability: Advanced Environmental Geography and Planning,; GEO-track thesis supervision (on Unequal Exchange, Metabolic Rift, Degrowth); The Capitalocene: Understanding Unequal Exchange and Environmental Conflict.
PhD projects that you supervise
- Eric Vaughan: Post-growth inclusive development perspectives for reconciling biodiversity conservation and development challenges in the Global South
- Augusto Heras: Climate change, fossil fuels and the energy transition in the Global South
- Frank de Morrée: The role of philanthropy in climate change, fossil fuels and the energy transition
- Felix van Hoften: Degrowth economic measurement informing alternative pathways for transformative urban governance
- Armstrong Mudzengerere: The Political Economy of Foreign Lithium Mining Investments in Zimbabwe
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Publications
2025
Rammelt, C., & Ylla-Català, R. C. (2025). Ecological Unequal Exchange: Winners and Losers in Global Raw Material Trade and Consumption. Journal of World-Systems Research, 31(1), 341-372. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2025.1298 [details]
2024
- Gupta, J., Bai, X., Liverman, D. M., Rockström, J., Qin, D., Stewart-Koster, B., Rocha, J. C., Jacobson, L., Abrams, J. F., Andersen, L. S., Armstrong McKay, D. I., Bala, G., Bunn, S. E., Ciobanu, D., DeClerck, F., Ebi, K. L., Gifford, L., Gordon, C., Hasan, S., ... Gentile, G. (2024). A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health-Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations. The Lancet Planetary Health, 8(10), e813-e873. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00042-1 [details]
- Gupta, J., Prodani, K., Bai, X., Gifford, L., Lenton, T. M., Otto, I., Pereira, L., Rammelt, C., Scholtens, J., & Tàbara, J. D. (2024). Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace. Environmental Politics, 33(7), 1286-1305. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2234794 [details]
- Rammelt, C. (2024). "How entropy drives us towards degrowth". Real-World Economics Review, 107, 2-7. http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue107/Rammelt107.pdf [details]
- Stewart-Koster, B., Bunn, S. E., Green, P., Ndehedehe, C., Andersen, L. S., Armstrong McKay, D. I., Bai, X., DeClerck, F., Ebi, K. L., Gordon, C., Gupta, J., Hasan, S., Jacobson, L., Lade, S. J., Liverman, D., Loriani, S., Mohamed, A., Nakicenovic, N., Obura, D., ... Zimm, C. (2024). Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water. Nature Sustainability, 7(1), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01247-w [details]
2023
- Gupta, J., Liverman, D., Prodani, K., Aldunce, P., Bai, X., Broadgate, W., Ciobanu, D., Gifford, L., Gordon, C., Hurlbert, M., Inoue, C. Y. A., Jacobson, L., Kanie, N., Lade, S. J., Lenton, T. M., Obura, D., Okereke, C., Otto, I. M., Pereira, L., ... Verburg, P. H. (2023). Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries. Nature Sustainability, 6(6), 630-638. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01064-1 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F. (2023). Inequity. In B. M. Haddad, & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium (pp. 293–294). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.I.28 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F. (2023). Living standards. In B. M. Haddad, & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium (pp. 327). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.L.29 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F., Gupta, J., Liverman, D., Scholtens, J., Ciobanu, D., Abrams, J. F., Bai, X., Gifford, L., Gordon, C., Hurlbert, M., Inoue, C. Y. A., Jacobson, L., Lade, S. J., Lenton, T. M., Armstrong McKay, D. I., Nakicenovic, N., Okereke, C., Otto, I. M., Pereira, L. M., ... Zimm, C. (2023). Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality. Nature Sustainability, 6, 212-221. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00995-5 [details]
- Rockström, J., Gupta, J., Qin, D., Lade, S. J., Abrams, J. F., Andersen, L. S., Armstrong McKay, D. I., Bai, X., Bala, G., Bunn, S. E., Ciobanu, D., DeClerck, F., Ebi, K., Gifford, L., Gordon, C., Hasan, S., Kanie, N., Lenton, T. M., Loriani, S., ... Zhang, X. (2023). Safe and just Earth system boundaries. Nature, 619(7968), 102-111. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06083-8 [details]
2022
- Gebru, K. M., Rammelt, C., & Leung, M. (2022). Paradoxes of Inclusion: Adverse Effects of Inclusive Interventions in Northern Ethiopia. European Journal of Development Research, 34(5), 2324–2345. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-022-00518-0 [details]
2021
- Gebru, K. M., Rammelt, C., Leung, M., Zoomers, A., & van Westen, G. (2021). The commodification of social relationships in agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia. Geoforum, 126, 350-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.07.026 [details]
- Gupta, J., Bavinck, M., Ros-Tonen, M., Asubonteng, K., Bosch, H., van Ewijk, E., Hordijk, M., Van Leynseele, Y., Lopes Cardozo, M., Miedema, E., Pouw, N., Rammelt, C., Scholtens, J., Vegelin, C., & Verrest, H. (2021). COVID-19, poverty and inclusive development. World Development, 145, Article 105527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105527 [details]
- Gupta, J., Liverman, D., Bai, X., Gordon, C., Hurlbert, M., Inoue, C. Y. A., Jacobson, L., Kanie, N., Lenton, T. M., Obura, D., Otto, I. M., Okereke, C., Pereira, L., Prodani, K., Rammelt, C., Scholtens, J., Tàbara, J. D., Verburg, P. H., Gifford, L., & Ciobanu, D. (2021). Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets? Earth System Governance, 10, Article 100122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2021.100122 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on the eradication of poverty: an incorrect diagnosis. Third World Quarterly, 42(2), 441-447. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2020.1860745 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F., & Gupta, J. (2021). Inclusive is not an adjective, it transforms development: A post-growth interpretation of Inclusive Development. Environmental Science & Policy, 124, 144-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.06.012 [details]
2020
- Rammelt, C. (2020). The Spiralling Economy: Connecting Marxian Theory with Ecological Economics. Environmental Values, 29(4), 417-442. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X15747870303881 [details]
2019
- Gebru, K. M., Leung, M., Rammelt, C., Zoomers, A., & van Westen, G. (2019). Vegetable Business and Smallholders’ Food Security: Empirical Findings from Northern Ethiopia. Sustainability, 11(3), Article 743. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030743 [details]
- Gebru, K. M., Rammelt, C., Leung, M., Zoomers, A., & van Westen, G. (2019). Inclusive malt barley business and household food security in Lay Gayint district of northern Ethiopia. Food Security, 11(4), 953-966. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-019-00939-6 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F. (2019). The dynamics of financial instability: simplifying Keen's Goodwin–Minsky model. System Dynamics Review, 35(2), 140-159. https://doi.org/10.1002/sdr.1627 [details]
2018
- Rammelt, C. (2018). Infrastructures as Catalysts: Precipitating Uneven Patterns of Development from Large-Scale Infrastructure Investments . Sustainability, 10(4), Article 1286. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041286 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F., Leung, M., & Gebru, K. M. (2018). The Exclusive Nature of Inclusive Productive Employment in the Rural Areas of Northern Ethiopia. Work, Employment and Society, 32(6), 1044-1060. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017017716882 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F., Masud, Z. M., & Masud, A. (2018). The Waterways of Tangail: Failures to Learn from Flood-Control Efforts in the Brahmaputra Basin of Bangladesh. Water Alternatives, 11(1), 106-124. http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol11/v11issue1/422-a11-1-6 [details]
2017
- Fletcher, R., & Rammelt, C. (2017). Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda. Globalizations, 14(3), 450-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1263077 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F., & Leung, M. W. H. (2017). Tracing the Causal Loops Through Local Perceptions of Rural Road Impacts in Ethiopia. World Development, 95, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.024 [details]
- Rammelt, C. F., van Schie, M., Nega Tegabu, F., & Leung, M. (2017). Vaguely right or exactly wrong: Measuring the (spatial) distribution of land resources, income and wealth in rural Ethiopia. Sustainability (Switzerland), 9(6), Article 962. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9060962 [details]
2016
- Rammelt, C. F., & van Schie, M. (2016). Ecology and equity in global fisheries: Modelling policy options using theoretical distributions. Ecological Modelling, 337, 107-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.06.011 [details]
2014
- Rammelt, C. F. (2014). Participatory Action Research in Marginalised Communities: Safe Drinking Water in Rural Bangladesh. Systemic practice and action research, 27(3), 195-210. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-013-9280-1
- Rammelt, C. F., & Crisp, P. (2014). A systems and thermodynamics perspective on technology in the circular economy. Real-World Economics Review, 68, 25-40. [details]
- Rammelt, C., Masud, Z., Boes, J., & Masud, F. (2014). Toxic injustice in the Bangladesh water sector: A social inequities perspective on arsenic contamination. Water Policy, 16(S2), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2014.103
2013
- Rammelt, C. F., & Boes, J. (2013). Galtung meets Daly: A framework for addressing inequity in ecological economics. Ecological Economics, 93, 269-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.06.013
2012
- Rammelt, C. F. (2012). The uncertainties and inequalities of groundwater use in Bangladesh. In J. Merson, R. Cooney, & P. Brown (Eds.), Conservation in a Crowded World: Case studies from the Asia-Pacific (pp. 147-166). UNSW Press. http://www.amazon.com/Conservation-Crowded-World-Studies-Asia-Pacific/dp/1742233457 http://www.peopleandwater.org/?p=326
2011
- Bubna-Litic, D., & Rammelt, C. F. (2011). Case Study: Shell. In S. Clegg, C. Carter, M. Kornberger, & J. Schweitzer (Eds.), Strategy: Theory and Practice (pp. 420-430). SAGE Publications Ltd. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book234128
- Rammelt, C. F., Masud, Z. M., Boes, J., & Masud, F. (2011). Beyond medical treatment, arsenic poisoning in rural Bangladesh. Social Medicine , 6(1), 22-30. http://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/viewArticle/472
2008
- Rammelt, C., & Boes, J. (2008). The autonomy of local drinking water institutions in rural Bangladesh. In Groundwater for Sustainable Development: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges (pp. 399-407). CRC Press.
2006
- Quist, J., Rammelt, C., Overschie, M., & de Werk, G. (2006). Backcasting for sustainability in engineering education: The case of Delft University of Technology. Journal of cleaner production, 14(9-11), 868-876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2005.11.032
2005
- Rammelt, C. F., & Boes, J. (2005). Implementation of safe drinking water supplies in Bangladesh. In Natural Arsenic in Groundwater: Occurrence, Remediation and Management - Proceedings of the Pre-Congress Workshop "Natural Arsenic in Groundwater (BWO 06)", 32nd International Geological Congress (pp. 307-317)
2004
- Rammelt, C. F., & Boes, J. (2004). Arsenic Mitigation and Social Mobilisation in Bangladesh. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 5(3), 308-319. https://doi.org/10.1108/14676370410546457
2024
- Gupta, J., Chen, Y., & Rammelt, C. (2024). Transport within earth system boundaries. npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport, 1, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44333-024-00005-5 [details]
2023
- Rammelt, C. F. (2023). Hoe entropie ons aanzet tot ontgroeien. Waardenwerk, 93(04), 36-41. https://doi.org/10.36254/WW.2023.93.04
2004
- De Werk, G., Rammelt, C. F., & Mulder, K. F. (2004). Interdisciplinary education as a way of shaping real sustainable engineers? In D. Ferrer-Balas, K. F. Mulder, J. Bruno, & R. Sans (Eds.), International Conference on Engineering Education in Sustainable Development (EESD2004) CIMNE and UPC. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321145799_Interdisciplinary_education_as_a_way_of_shaping_real_sustainable_engineers
- Rammelt, C. F., & Boes, J. (2004). Technological Education and Projects in Developing Countries: Possibilities and Constraints. In D. Ferrer-Balas, K. F. Mulder, J. Bruno, & R. Sans (Eds.), International Conference on Engineering Education in Sustainable Development (EESD2004) CIMNE and UPC.
2012
- Baumber, A., Rammelt, C. F., Ampt, P., & Merson, J. (2012). Bioenergy from Native Agroforestry: planning for a Regional Industry in the NSW Central Tablelands. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/downloads/12-021
- Brown, P. F., Arvanitakis, J., Chapple, R., Merson, J., & Rammelt, C. F. (2012). Disaster Management Community Engagement and Education: Environmental Scan and Options Analysis. Research Findings. A report for Emergency Management Queensland. Queensland Department of Community Safety.
2011
- Merson, J., Ampt, P., Rammelt, C. F., & Baumber, A. (2011). Bioenergy from Native Agroforestry: an assessment of its potential in the NSW Central Tablelands. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/items/11-065
Prize / grant
- Rammelt, C. (2025). A dignified life for all within planetary boundaries. https://epicur.edu.eu/news/epicur-seed-funding-scheme-2025-call-for-applications/
- Rammelt, C., Hickey, C. & Dablander, F. (2025). Minimal and Maximal Thresholds for a Just Transition. https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/zwaartepunten/en/energy-transition-through-the-lens-of-sustainable-developments-goals/enlens.html
Media appearance
- Rammelt, C. (11-11-2022). Klimaat betaalt hoge prijs voor armoedebestrijding [Print] Trouw. Klimaat betaalt hoge prijs voor armoedebestrijding. https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1516831&crid=8e2df4fc-e602-4413-b2dd-1b162ded9c56&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn…
- Rammelt, C. (10-11-2022). Een menswaardig bestaan voor iedereen heeft voor het klimaat een hoge prijs [Web] Trouw. Een menswaardig bestaan voor iedereen heeft voor het klimaat een hoge prijs. https://www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie/een-menswaardig-bestaan-voor-iedereen-heeft-voor-het-klimaat-een-hoge-prijs~bacc661f/
- Rammelt, C. (10-11-2022). UvA: in wereld zonder armoede stijgt uitstoot 26 procent extr [Web] Zeelandnet. UvA: in wereld zonder armoede stijgt uitstoot 26 procent extra. https://www.zeelandnet.nl/nieuws/uva-in-wereld-zonder-armoede-stijgt-uitstoot-26-procent-extra
2009
- Rammelt, C. F. (2009). Development and Infrastructure in Marginalised Communities, Safe Drinking Water in Rural Bangladesh. University of New South Wales.
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Rammelt, C., & Ylla-Català, R. C. (2025). Ecological Unequal Exchange: Winners and Losers in Global Raw Material Trade and Consumption. Journal of World-Systems Research, 31(1), 341-372.