Inauguration
Inauguration prof. dr. Peter J.M. Oosterveer
On Thursday, September 8th prof. Dr. Peter J. M. Oosterveer, personal professor in the Environmental Policy Group, will be giving his inaugural speech, titled 'Networks, flows and actors; Promoting sustainability in globalizing food provision'.
Summary
Interactions between civil society organisations, governments, the food industry, consumers and producers constitute dynamic fields of environmental change in global food provision. Promoting sustainable food provision builds on changing the social practices of producing, processing, trading and consuming food and on transforming the relations between these practices. Understanding processes of transformation, evolving roles of different societal actors and interactions between local and global dynamics constitute an important challenge for social science research.