Wageningen School of Social Sciences
The mission of WASS is to understand social processes with regard to today’s global challenges of disparities and poverty, of responsible production and consumption, of natural resource use and the environment, as well as of knowledge in society.
Agenda
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WASS Introduction Course 2025
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Systematic approaches to reviewing literature - 4 ECTS
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Visual Research Methods - 2 ECTS
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From topic to proposal: Getting started – 2 ECTS
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Critical Tourism Studies - 3 ECTS
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Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts - 4 ECTS
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Economics of Farm Households - 1 ECTS
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Environmental and Resource Economics – Module: Sustainability Applications of Behavioral Economics
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Conservation Research and Practice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - 4 ECTS
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Consumer behaviour: Theory and applications in health and sustainability of food choices - 4 ECTS
Upcoming PhD defenses
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Spilling the beans on food waste
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A capability approach to assessing impacts of voluntary sustainability certification: A case study of Indonesian small-scale tuna fisheries
PE (Puspi) Wiranthi
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Fields of Friction. Practices and politics of irrigated urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ir. MT (Matthijs) Wessels MSc
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Making space for hope? Privilege and prefiguration in collective responses to the climate crisis in the Netherlands
TA (Tom) Rowe MSc
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Meat Expectations: Consumer Categorisation of Plant-Based Proteins
M (Monique) van der Meer MSc
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From everyday practices to policy: Food safety concerns and strategies among the urban poor in retail environments in Bangladesh