• Assistant Professor at Environmental Policy Group, Social Sciences Group Wageningen University since 2002
• Chair of Program Committee Environmental Sciences and Urban Environmental Management since 2008
• Study advisor Bachelor and Master students Environmental Sciences 2001- 2006
• Researcher at Environmental Policy Group / Environmental Sociology section since 1995
• Researcher at Environmental Technology section and Liason Office Wageningen University (1994)
• Researcher at the department of Environmental Studies University Utrecht (1993)
• PhD in Environmental Sociology (2002, Wageningen University)
• Msc Environmental Sciences (1992, Wageningen University)
• Curriculum Vitae (as of July 2008)

Research profile

• Fields of Expertise: environmental management of urban infrastructures; social aspects of technological environmental innovations; sustainable consumption, lifestyles and systems of provision; small island development states and the environment. 
• ENP Research theme: Sustainable Consumption and Production

• Oosterveer, P., & Van Vliet, B. (2010) "Environmental Systems and Local Actors: Decentralizing Environmental Policy in Uganda". Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9423-4
  
• Evers, J.G., Huibers, F.P. and B.J.M. van Vliet (2008) "Institutional Aspects of Integrating Irrigation into Urban Waste Water Management: The case of Hanoi, Vietnam" Irrigation and Drainage 57 DOI: 10.1002/ird.466
• Hegger, D. L. T., J. Van Vliet, B.J.M. van Vliet (2007). "Niche Management and its Contribution to Regime Change: The Case of Innovation in Sanitation." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 19(6): 729-746.
• Van Vliet, B.J.M. (2006), Citizen-consumer roles in environmental management of large technological systems. In: User Behavior and Technology Development / Slob, A., Verbeek, P.P., . - Berlijn : Springer, (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science 20) - p. 309 - 318.
• Vliet, B.J.M. van (2006), The sustainable transformation of sanitation. In: Reflexive governance for sustainable development / Voss, J.P., Bauknecht, D., Kemp, R., . - Cheltenham UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, - p. 337 - 354.
• Van Vliet, B.J.M., Chappells, H. and Shove E. (2005), Infrastructures of Consumption. Environmental Restructuring of the Utility Industries. London: Earthscan 
• Van Vliet, B.J.M. (2004), Shifting Scales of Infrastructure Provision, in Chappells, H, Southerton, D. and van Vliet, B.J.M. (eds.) Sustainable consumption: the implications of changing infrastructures of provision. Edward Elgar Publishing, Camberly, UK 
• Van Vliet, B.J.M. and Stein, N. (2004) New Consumer Roles in Waste Water Management. Local Environment Vol 9, No. 4. 
• Van Vliet, B.J.M. (2002), Greening the Grid. The Ecological Modernisation of Network-bound systems. Wageningen University (PhD thesis)
• Complete list of publications at Wageningen University

Research projects

• Social Practices in Water Consumption: market chances and risks for the Dutch Water Sector (KWR funded 2007-2010)
• Sanitation Challenge: organization of international IWA conference in Wageningen (May 2008). Book editor of "Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge" (Springer 2010)
• The implementation of Decentral Sanitation and Re-use Systems: social and policy aspects (EET Funded 2001-2006)
• Environmental Management Capacity Building in Uganda (Nuffic Funded 2005-2009)
• Biowaste Re-use in South East Asian Cities (EU funded 2005-2006) 
• DOMUS: Domestic Consumption and Utility Sectors. (EU funded 1997-2000)

Educational tasks

• ENP 31306 Sustainable Technology Development (Masters course)
• ENP-23806 Sustainability Transitions: Concepts, Issues and Indicators (Bachelors course)
• ENP 53306 Water Governance (Free Minor Course)
• ESA 10309 Environmental Science and Society (Bachelors course)
• ESA 60312 European Workshop Environmental Sciences (Masters course)
• ESA 10309 Milieu en Innovatie (Bachelors Course)
• Thesis Environmental Policy supervision
• Internship Environmental Policy supervision
• Chair of the Curriculum Committee Environmental Sciences (as from March 2008)
• Educational Coordinator Environmental Policy Group