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Environmental Policy Group
The increasing globalisation of environmental issues, debates, practices and governance is reflected in the department's international research and education efforts, as well as in the variety of nationalities of our staff, PhD and MSc students.
News and Agenda
Latest publications
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Permagov D4.1 deliverable: Developing the Multi-layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model
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Company reflexivity for plastics circularity : The transformative potential of reflexive environmental legislation in the EU
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): J. van Zeben, co-promotor(en): J. van Leeuwen - Wageningen: Wageningen University
ENP Research Themes
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Circularity
Circularity research at ENP contributes to understanding circularity transformations with a focus on how circular social practices emerge and scale up, and with what social and environmental implications.
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Biodiversity
Global efforts to combat biodiversity loss are deeply social and political, reflecting not a uniform approach to nature, but a plurality of approaches to protecting, rebuilding, rewilding, and caring for natures in the 21st Century. Our research examines these diverse approaches and their implications for governing human-nature relations in the Anthropocene.
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Food
Food, an essential part of everyday human life, involves critical sustainability challenges from production through to processing, trade, consumption and waste. Our research ranges from local practices to global value chains, contributing critical sociological and political analysis with the purpose of driving positive change.
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Climate
Climate change is one of the primary challenges of our time. Our research focuses on architectures, networks, and technologies of present and future climate governance, taking a transformative perspective that emphasizes questions of equity and effectiveness.
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Energy
A transition towards a renewable energy system brings new roles for users, communities and providers, creating challenges for inclusive governance. Our research asks what transitions towards renewable energy mean for everyday citizen engagement, for the social organisation of energy infrastructures and for sustainability transitions in water and food systems.
Media and Press
Wageningen Centre of Sustainability Governance (WCSG)
The ENP group is a part of the Wageningen Centre of Sustainability Governance (WCSG)— an interdisciplinary group of governance scholars contributing knowledge on the design, functioning and implications of sustainability governance arrangements in the Wageningen domain of food, nature and environment.