Land Use Planning Group
The Land Use Planning Group studies deliberative processes in which people with various ambitions, perspectives and different types of knowledge decide about the organisation of future landscapes.
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Chair holder
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prof.dr.ir. A (Adri) van den Brink Professor
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prof.dr. PFM (Paul) Opdam professor landscape in spatial planning , professor landscape in spatial planning
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dr.ir. J (Joks) Janssen professor of Regional development and landscape he
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prof.dr. AJJ (Arnold) van der Valk land use planning
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Economic limitations affecting conservation of cultural heritage demand creativity
Inaugural address Professor Joks Janssen
Read moreOur research
The Land Use Planning Group at Wageningen University conducts high quality research on spatial developments in metropolitan areas inside and outside the Netherlands. Thereby we follow the ‘Wageningen approach’.
Our education
Land Use Planning is one of the key Chair Groups participating in Landscape Architecture and Planning, covering the specialisation Spatial Planning (‘Ruimtelijke planning’) in both programmes.
We offer a wide range of Bachelor and Master level courses in planning methods, theory and practice.
Press release: How negative stories frustrated Dutch nature conservation policy
The growing critiques on Dutch nature conservation policy is to a large extent an unintended consequence of the implementation of EU conservation policy. Researchers from Wageningen University, part of Wageningen UR, show how the performance of failure has caused a negative attitude towards nature conservation...
Latest publications
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Preservation and Development: The Cultural Landscape and Heritage Paradox in the Netherlands (Online first)
Landscape Research (2013). - ISSN 0142-6397 - p. 17.
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Town planning as a socio-religious issue. The ‘big city’ advisory committee and the urban redevelopment of Eindhoven and its environs, 1945–1960 (online first)
Planning Perspectives (2013). - ISSN 0266-5433 - p. 26.
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The good, the bad and the self-referential: heritage planning and the productivity of difference
International Journal of Heritage Studies 19 (2013)1. - ISSN 1352-7258 - p. 1 - 15.