Environmental Policy Group

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Environmental Policy Group

• The research programme of the Environmental
  Policy Group focuses on
• Environmental Governance and Management of
• Sustainable production and consumption
• Sustainable Natural Resource Use
• Global Environmental Change
• 11 lecturing staff and around 40 PhD students
• Yearly, some 30 MSc thesis students
• Network of over 400 graduates
• www.studyenvironmentalgovernance.org

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Research Program ENP
and some related courses

• Environmental management and industry
• Sustainable technology development
• Governing Sustainable Cities

• Environmental Policy analysis and evaluation
• Sociological Perspectives on Environmental Change

• Water Governance
• Marine Environmental
• Quality and Governance
• Social Theory Perspectives on Nature Protection

• International environmental policy
• Climate Governance
• Environment and development

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Current research areas (a.o.)

• Climate mitigation and adaptation governance
  mechanisms underpinning renewable energy
  provision and biofuels
• Analysis of the role of information and
  transparency in governing global environmental
  change
• How to initiate transitions in consumption
  routines
• Green innovations in water supply in the
  Netherlands
• Sustainable waste and sanitation infrastructure
  for the urban poor in East Africa
• Sustainable Natural Resource Use in Rural China
• Governance of mangrove coastal environments in
  Southeast Asia
• North Sea fisheries management
• Sustainable building and living

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ENP masters courses period 2

• Environmental management and industry (mornings)
  (MES MUE)
• Environmental Policy analysis and evaluation
  (mornings) (core course for MES)
• Political Theory (mornings)
• Marine Environmental Quality and Governance
  (afternoons) (core course for MMM)

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ENP masters courses period 3

• International Environmental Policy (mornings)
• Sustainable technology development (mornings)
  (MES MUE)
• Globalization and Sustainability of food
  production and consumption (afternoons)
• Governance for Sustainable Cities (afternoons)
  (MUE)

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ENP masters courses period 4, 5

• Sociological Perspectives on Environmental Change
  (mornings)
• Climate Governance (mornings) (MEA-Climate
  Studies)
• Major Works in Contemporary Social Theory
  (mornings)
• Advanced Environmental Economics and Policy
  (afternoons) (MES)
• Social Theory Perspectives on Nature Protection
  (mornings)
• Environment and development (afternoons) (MES,
  MUE)
• Water Governance (first 4 weeks of period 5)

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Contributions of ENP to other courses

• Principles of Environmental Sciences (Gert
  Spaargaren)
• Urban Environmental Management (Bas van Vliet)
• European Workshops (Marine Simon Bush, Urban
  Bas van Vliet)

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Student evaluations 2008/2009

• Average score of 15 ENP Masters courses
• 4.0
• (on a scale of 1 to 5)

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ENP Thesis Supervision
Orientation (coordinator / supervisor)
registration
Writing the proposal (supervisor)
go / no go
Research activities (supervisor)
Report and presentation
second reader
Assessment by supervisor and second reader
Grading Publication
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Examples of subjects for thesis research (1)

• Sustainable Production and Consumption
• Biowaste Reuse in Cimahi, Indonesia
• Bicycle use by immigrants in Amsterdam
• Low energy housing policy in Germany
• Environmental flows and the governance of ship
  scrapping industry in China
• Waste and Sanitation infrastructures management
  Rwanda
• Product labels (rice-Vietnam, tomatoes-Spain)
• Niche development decentralized sanitation in NL
• Palm-oil by-products as biofuel (Malaysia NL)

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Examples of subjects for thesis research (2)

• Sustainable Natural Resource Use
• Negotiations around Westerschelde
• Decentralisation of Wetland Policy in Uganda
• Use of economic instruments in biodiversity
  conservation
• Sacred forests a sustainable conservation
  strategy? The case of sacred forests in the Ouémé
  Vally, Benin.
• Agrarian ReformThe pathway to sustainability?
  The case of Uzbekistan.
• Imagined Realities between mythical and
  mystical in the tropical landscapes in the
  Highlands of Eastern Madagascar.

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Examples of subjects for thesis research (3)

• Global Environmental Change
• A World/United Nations Environment Organisation?
  An explanation of the non-decisions on the reform
  of the international environmental governance
  system.
• Effects of the clean development mechanisms (CDM)
  in China. A case study of the CDM performance in
  wind project development.
• Influence of institutional interplay in
  developing and implementing adaptation policy to
  climate change
• EUs role in international environmental
  politics, does it help?

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List of Theses at ENP website

• To get a feeling of the variety of thesis topics
  
• http//www.enp.wur.nl/UK/education/MScThesisEnvi
  ronmentalPolicy/MScThesisReports/

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Applying for major thesis research

• Keep an open eye for subjects during the year!
• Check major requirements (see Msc thesis Guide at
  ENP website)
• Browse topics (website www.enp.wur.nl/UK,
  journals, fellow students, ENP theses in
  Leeuwenborch Library)
• Contact education coordinator to discuss topics,
  requirements (Bas van Vliet)
• Talk to lecturers during courses
• Attend ENP thesis presentations
• Focus your research proposal (together with
  supervisor)

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Internships and career perspectives

• You can find ENP internship students as well as
  alumni in...
• Consultancy (national and international)
• Grontmij, DHV, EcoSecurity, Ecofys, Centrum
  Landbouw en Milieu
• Policy and politics (various levels)
• UNEP Nairobi, Dutch / European Parliament,
  European Commission, Ministry of Environment,
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Municipalities
• Academic and other research / education
  institutes
• WUR institutes, Leuven University, Wisconsin
  University
• Industry and industry-related organizations
• Essent, Shell, KIWA (water industry)
• NGOs (international, environmental, consumer)
• European Council for Nature Conservation,
  European Environmental Bureau, Friends of the
  Earth NL, or Curaçao or

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