Peter J.M. Oosterveer

Dr. ir. Peter J.M. Oosterveer

Name and address

Name            Peter J.M. Oosterveer

Room            2014

Telephone      +31.(0)317.485038 or 484452 
Fax               +31.(0)317.483990
Email            Peter.Oosterveer@wur.nl


Position

Senior Lecturer


Background

  • Senior lecturer at Environmental Policy, Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University since 2004.
  • PhD in Social Sciences (2005, Wageningen University)
  • MSc in Rural Sociology (1982, Wageningen University)
  • Curriculum Vitae (as of December 2005)

Research profile

  • Fields of expertise: globalisation and sustainability of food production and consumption; labeling and certification of food; environmental policy and management in Africa; social theory; sociology of flows.
  • ENP Research themes: Sustainable Consumption and Production 

Publications

  • Oosterveer, Peter (2009), ‘Urban environmental services and the state in East Africa; between neo-developmental and network governance approaches.’ Geoforum 40: 1060-1068.
  • Oosterveer, Peter (2005) Global Food Governance. PhD-thesis, Wageningen University; Wageningen.
  • Oosterveer, Peter (2004) Greening Small and medium-sized Food Processing Enterprises in Northern Thailand. International Journal of Business and Society. Vol. 5 (1): 58 – 77.
  • Oosterveer, Peter (2002) Reinventing Risk Politics: Reflexive Mondernity and the European BSE Crisis. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. Vol. 4 (3): 215 – 229.

Research projects

  • AGITS (Agro-Industrial Transformations towards Sustainability; Southeast and East Asia in Global Perspective (funded by INREF)). Co-ordinator
  • ENCAB-Uganda: Capacity Building for Environmental Management in Uganda, http://www.emcabu.org/
  • Research project in preparation: PROVIDE (Partnership for Research on Viable Environmental Infrastructure Development in East Africa
  • Research project in preparation: Green Consumerism in Globalizing Food Markets: an international comparative research on retail-outlets as locales for producer-consumer interactions for transitions towards sustainable food

Educational tasks

  • Globalization and sustainability of food production and consumption (ENP-31806)
  • Social Theory and the Environment (ENP-32806)
  • Theories and themes: sociology and economics (ENP-22806)
  • Supervising thesis Environmental Policy
  
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