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Environmental Policy Group
Educational program and thesis track for MES/MUE/MCL
September 17, 2013, Dr Bas van Vliet
Environmental Policy Group
The research programme of ENP focuses on:
Environmental Governance and Management of…
● Sustainable production and consumption
● Sustainable Natural Resource Use
● Global Environmental Change
12 lecturing staff and around 40 PhD students
Yearly, some 35 MSc thesis students
Network of over 450 graduates
www.studyenvironmentalgovernance.org
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
• Environmental
Quality and Governance
• Ocean and Coastal Governance
• International environmental policy
• Climate Governance
• Environment and Development
Sustainable production and consumption
Peter Oosterveer, Gert
Spaargaren, Simon Bush, Machiel
Lamers, Bas van Vliet
● Sustainable Consumption and
Production: Housing, Food, Mobility
● Smart-Grid configurations for decentral
energy production and consumption of
households
● Sanitary innovations with Modernized
Mixtures in East Africa
● SME’s and cleaner production in Asia
● Environmental governance of cruise
ships in the Antarctic and Caribbean
Sustainable natural resource use
Jan van Tatenhove, Simon
Bush, Judith van Leeuwen, Kris
van Koppen;
● Innovative governance
arrangements for tuna fisheries in
the Coral Triangle
● FSC- and global forest governance
● Nature protection policies marine
and land based protected areas
Global environmental change
Aarti Gupta, Jan van
Tatenhove, Judith van
Leeuwen, Arthur Mol
● Emerging Carbon Markes at macro
(ETS) and micro (PCA) levels
● Role of INGO in Global
Environmental Governance
● Changing authority in the
environmental governance of
shipping and oil and gas
production in the North Sea
● Local governments and city
networks in Climate Governance
ENP Courses for MES
Required Courses MES for thesis ENP (12 credits):
● ENP 34306 Environmental Policy: Analysis and
Evaluation (2 Morning)
+ 6 credits out of:
● ENP 38303/37303 Sustainable Technology
Development (4)
● ENP 30306 International Environmental Policy (4)
● ENP 33306 Environment and Development (5
Morning)
● ENP 32806 Sociological Perspectives on
Environmental Change (5 Morning)
ENP courses for MUE
Apart from the Restricted Optional course
● ENP 36806 Governing for Sustainable Cities (4)
Choose 12 credits as requirement for thesis ENP in MUE:
● ENP 20806 Environmental Management and
Industry (1, morning)
● ENP 38306/37303 Sustainable Technology
Development (4)
● ENP 32306 Advanced Environmental Economics and
Policy (5, afternoon)
ENP courses for MCL
Required Courses MCL for thesis ENP (12 credits):
● ENP 34306 Environmental Policy: Analysis and
Evaluation (2 Morning)
● ENP 36306 Climate Governance (5 morning)
+ One course out of:
● ENP 37306 Water Governance (3)
● ENP 38303/37303 Sustainable Technology
Development (4)
● ENP 30306 International Environmental Policy (4)
● ENP 32306 Advanced Environmental Economics and
Policy (5, afternoon)
Optional ENP courses for MUE and MES and
MCL:
Political Theory (2, mornings)
Sustainable Technology Development (4)
International Environmental Policy (4)
Governance for Sustainable Cities (4)
Water Governance (3)
Sociological Perspectives on Environmental Change (5,
mornings)
Climate Governance (5, afternoons)
Environment and Development (5, afternoons)
Advanced Environmental Economics and Policy (5, afternoons)
Ocean and Coastal Governance (5, mornings)
Contributions of ENP to other courses:
Principles of Environmental Sciences (Gert
Spaargaren, Kris van Koppen, Peter Oosterveer,
Bettina Bluemling)
Principles Urban Environmental Management (Bas
van Vliet)
European Workshop (Machiel Lamers, Bas van Vliet,
Bettina Bluemling, Astrid Hendriksen)
30 – 35 theses / year
MUE student Renske den Exter wins 2012 National Thesis Award VVM
Looking for ENP thesis subjects?
Our Thesis Topic Brochure (May
2013), hard copy and PDF
New thesis topics and internship
vacancies: Facebook ENP
Other topics related to our
research fields can be discussed
at an intake with Education
Coordinator ENP: Bas van Vliet
Examples of subjects for thesis research
Sustainable Production and Consumption
● Implementing the Plastic Hero. The implementation of
the new household plastic waste collection system in the
Netherlands
● Energy-wise scan of Rotterdam. A study of domestic
energy consumption according to socio and urban
variables
● The role of mainstream clothing retailers in stimulating
sustainable consumption patterns.
● Environmental flows and the governance of ship
scrapping industry in China
● Waste and Sanitation infrastructures management
Rwanda
● Product labels (rice-Vietnam, tomatoes-Spain)
● Palm-oil by-products as biofuel (Malaysia – NL)
Examples of subjects for thesis research
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 Reform…The pathway to sustainability? The
case of Uzbekistan.
● Towards policy coherence for fish stock conservation in
the EU and beyond? An assessment of the Common
Fisheries Policy and the EU-Pacific tuna relations domain.
Examples of subjects for thesis research
Global Environmental Change
● The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). An
analysis of the state of play in Uganda.
● A World/United Nations Environment Organisation?
An explanation of the non-decisions on the reform
of the international environmental governance
system.
● Influence of institutional interplay in developing and
implementing adaptation policy to climate change
● EU’s role in international environmental politics,
does it help?
List of Theses at ENP website
Have a look at our MSc theses and hard copies in library
Leeuwenborch:
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 (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 colloquia announced at our
website
Focus your research proposal (together with
supervisor)
Internships and career perspectives
You can find ENP internship students as well as
alumni in...
Academic and other research / education institutes
● WUR institutes, Leuven University, Wisconsin University
Consultancy (national and international)
● Grontmij, Haskoning, Arcadis, DHV, EcoSecurity, Ecofys
Policy and politics (various levels)
● UNEP Nairobi, Dutch / European Parliament, European
Commission, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Municipalities
Industry and industry-related organizations
● E-on, Shell, KWR (water industry)
NGOs (international, environmental, consumer)
● European Council for Nature Conservation, European
Environmental Bureau, Friends of the Earth NL, or
Curaçao or…
www.wageningenur.nl/enp
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