Wageningen Centre of Sustainability Governance
The Wageningen Centre of Sustainability Governance (WCSG) is 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.
About WCSG
The Wageningen Centre of Sustainability Governance (WCSG) is an interdisciplinary group of governance scholars committed to contributing knowledge on the design, functioning, and implications of sustainability governance arrangements in the Wageningen domain of food, nature, and environment.
We are composed of 4 chairgroups:
Environmental Policy (ENP), Forest and Nature Conservation Policy (FNP), Law (LAW), Public Administration and Policy (PAP).
Research themes
- Circular food systems
- Climate, water, and energy nexus landscapes
- Landscapes and biodiversity conservation
The Wageningen Centre of Sustainability Governance (WCSG) Who are we?
Our chair groups
Environmental Policy
The mission of the Environmental Policy group is to advance scientific understanding of the social and political dimensions of sustainable environmental transformations. 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. This chair group is led by Simon Bush.
Forest and Nature Conservation Policy
The Forest and Nature Conservation Policy group led by Georg Winkel focuses on the political, social-economic and cultural dimensions of forests and nature. It covers current themes such as deforestation, forest transitions, climate change, biodiversity conservation and landscape management in the global North and South.
Law
The Law group focusses on legal solutions to social problems, including those studied in life sciences domains. These issues touch on every aspect of the law, which means that we have collective expertise on matters relating to EU law, food law, environmental law, international law, WTO law, intellectual property law, private law and human rights law.
Public Administration and Policy
Public Administration and Policy, together with Dave Huitema as chair, aim to analyse how actors, embedded in institutions, attempt to govern sustainability transformations, and to use the generated insights to help develop or co-design governance arrangements that would invite transformative initiatives in society, or to remove current governance obstacles to such initiatives.
Environmental Policy
The mission of the Environmental Policy group is to advance scientific understanding of the social and political dimensions of sustainable environmental transformations. 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. This chair group is led by Simon Bush.
Forest and Nature Conservation Policy
The Forest and Nature Conservation Policy group led by Georg Winkel focuses on the political, social-economic and cultural dimensions of forests and nature. It covers current themes such as deforestation, forest transitions, climate change, biodiversity conservation and landscape management in the global North and South.
Law
The Law group focusses on legal solutions to social problems, including those studied in life sciences domains. These issues touch on every aspect of the law, which means that we have collective expertise on matters relating to EU law, food law, environmental law, international law, WTO law, intellectual property law, private law and human rights law.
Public Administration and Policy
Public Administration and Policy, together with Dave Huitema as chair, aim to analyse how actors, embedded in institutions, attempt to govern sustainability transformations, and to use the generated insights to help develop or co-design governance arrangements that would invite transformative initiatives in society, or to remove current governance obstacles to such initiatives.
