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.
Research themes
Circularity
We focus on how circular social practices emerge and scale up, and their socio- and environmental implications.
Biodiversity
We study how diverse global approaches to halt biodiversity loss, shape the governance of human–nature relation.
Food
We examine how local to global food systems and their governance innovations address sustainability challenges across production, consumption and value chains.
Climate
We study how fair and effective climate governance can address mitigation, adaptation, and future climate risks across scales and sectors.
Energy
Our research asks how transitions towards sustainable energy can be enabled locally and internationally.
Education
Education by Environmental Policy
At the Chair Groups of Wageningen University, we are very passionate about teaching. Our teaching staff is involved in multiple courses on BSc and MSc level for different study programs.
Our courses include aspects of various sciences. In addition, we offer courses that focus on training academic skills, such as writing and debating skills.
Publications & Projects
The various research projects of the Environmental Policy group relate to the five research themes: Circularity, Biodiversity, Food, Climate, and Energy. We regularly publish outcomes of our projects in scientific journals, professional journals, scientific and popular books, and proceedings.
Highlighted projects
- Restoring marine natures in Southeast Asia and beyond: Geopolitics meets the politics of care
- CuHeMo: Cultural Heritage in Motion: Indigenous Knowledge and Mobile Livelihoods in Changing Climate (CuHeMo)
- Evidence-based Strategies to create Circular Hospitals: Applying the 10-Rs framework to healthcare (ESCH-R)
Highlighted publications
Chair Holder
Simon Bush is Professor and Chair of the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. His main research interest focuses on the global dimensions of sustainable marine and aquatic food governance, including both aquaculture and fisheries. More broadly he is engaged in research on governing interactions between sustainable food, energy and biodiversity - linked in large part to the staff and PhD students at the Environmental Policy Group.
prof.dr. SR (Simon) Bush
Chairholder
People of Environmental Policy
Each chair group of Wageningen University & Research, under leadership of a professor, has its own area of expertise. Meet the people of this Chair Group.
