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Dr. Machiel Lamers

Associate Professor at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University & Research

Areas of expertise

  • - Development sociology
  • - Environmental policy
  • - Leisure and recreation
  • - Environmental governance
  • - Sociology
  • - Knowledge valorisation
  • - Policy processes
  • - Tourism
  • - Adaptation
  • - Africa
  • - Antarctica
  • - Nature conservation
  • - Participation methods
  • - Polar regions

Major works

Courses and Programs taught by Dr. Machiel Lamers

Publications by dr. MAJ (Machiel) Lamers

Lamers, M., Pristupa, A., Amelung, B., Knol, M. (2016) The changing role of environmental information in Arctic marine governance. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 18, 49-55.

Lamers, M., Van der Duim, R., Van Wijk, J., Nthiga, R. (2014). Governing Conservation Tourism Partnerships in Kenya. Annals of Tourism Research 48: 250-265.

Lamers, M., Liggett, D. & Amelung, B. (2012). Strategic challenges of tourism development and governance in Antarctica: taking stock and moving forward. Polar Research 18: 13.

Hegger, D., Lamers, M. , Van Zeijl-Rozema, A. & Dieperink, C. (2012). Conceptualising knowledge co-production in climate change adaptation projects: success conditions and levers for action. Environmental Science & Policy 18: 52-65.

Chown, S., Lee, J., Hughes, K., Barnes, J., Barrett, P., Bergstrom, D., Convey, P., Cowan, D., Crosbie, K., Dyer, G., Frenot, Y., Grant, S., Herr, D., Kennicutt, M., Lamers, M. , Murray, A., Possingham, H., Reid, K., Riddle, M., Ryan, P., Sanson, L., Shaw, J., Sparrow, M., Summerhayes, C., Terauds, A., Wall, D. (2012). Challenges to the Future Conservation of the Antarctic. Science 337 (13 July 2012): 158-159.

About me

Machiel Lamers (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University, with a specialty in the field of tourism, natural resource use, and mobility-focused information systems. He obtained his PhD in 2009 at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) on the sustainability challenges and governance of Antarctic tourism development.

He currently conducts innovative research on sustainable tourism, nature conservation and environmental governance in various parts of the world, including the Arctic and Antarctic, Latin America and Indonesia. He contributes to core social theoretical development on environmental flows and networks, practices, and informational governance.

Dr. Lamers is a member of the Steering Group of the Polar Prediction Project, a flagship programme of the World Meteorological Organisation, as well as a co-chair of its Social and Economic Research Applications task group.