Networks, flows and actors : promoting sustainability in globalising food provision
Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa : A Dynamic Perspect...
This book describes and analyzes six novel conservation arrangements in eastern and southern Africa, illustrating how tourism is increasingly used and promoted as a key mechanism for achieving conservation and development objectives outside state-protected areas.
Sustainable futures : social sciences research at Wageningen University
Interpretation and method: Empirical research methods and the interpretive turn, 2nd ed.
This book demonstrates the relevance, rigor, and creativity of interpretive research methodologies for the social and human sciences. The book situates methods questions within the context of broader methodological questions--specifically, the character of social realities and their "know-ability." Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters prov...
Forest and nature governance: A practice based approach
In studies of forest and nature governance the dominant approaches are rational choice and neo-institutionalism. This book takes another perspective. Departing from ‘practice theory’, and building upon scholars like Giddens, Bourdieu, Reckwitz, Schatzki and Callon, it seeks to move beyond established understandings of institutions, actors, and know...
Assessing environmental impacts of Chinese livestock policies : an agent-based approach
Over the recent decades, environmental management has been promoted in China, and has gradually transferred from urban areas and industrial sectors to rural areas and the agricultural sector. Livestock production is extremely important for China, for increasing rural household income and guaranteeing long-term food security. At the same time of th...
Emergent Results of Artificial Economics
Health and Society “New kid on the block”
The Disoriented State; Shifts in Governmentality, Territoriality and Governance
Research in action : theories and practices for innovation and social change
Research in Action engages the researcher who wants to live up to the challenges of contemporary science and to contribute to innovation and social change. This ambition to contribute to change raises many questions. How to define the main target group of the research? What role does this group play in the research? Which methods of data collection...
