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Alan Irwin Reitor de Pesquisa da Copenhagen Business School Alan Irwin é Reitor de Pesquisa da Copenhagen Business School. Anteriormente, atuou como professor de Políticas Científicas e Tecnológicas e como Reitor de Estudos Sociais e Ambientais na Universidade de Liverpool. É doutor pela Universidade de Manchester, onde também trabalhou. Além disso, atuou na Universidade de Brunel (onde foi Pró-reitor de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento). Alan preside o painel estratégico britânico sobre "Biociência para a sociedade" da BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council). Também é um membro honorário da Associação Britânica para o Avanço da Ciência.

Prof. dr. ir. G. Spaargaren Position Professor and Senior Lecturer at the ENP-group; Coordinator at interim of the Research Methodology Group Background Endowed Professor on ‘Environmental Policy for Sustainable Lifestyles and Patterns of Consumption. Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University. (2004 - present). Coordinator at interim of Research Methodology Group, Dept. of Social Sciences, Wageningen University (2005 – present) Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sociology and Policy, at the Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University (1999 – present).   Endowed Professorship (0.2) at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, on the ‘policy aspects of environmental education’ (1999 – 2003), on behalf of IVN.   PhD in Sociology, Wageningen University   MSc in Sociology (Cum Laude) at the department of sociology, Wageningen University Curriculum Vitae (as of june 2005)

Research profile

• Fields of expertise: sustainable consumption and lifestyles; social theory and the environment; domestic consumption of energy, water and waste-services; sociology of environmental flows; sociological theory.  
• I have carried out and supervised a number of major national and international research projects in various parts of the world and in several EU-countries.  
• ENP Research theme: Sustainable Consumption and Production  coordinating – together with Arthur Mol – the research program at ENP

Publications

• Spaargaren, G. [2003), Sustainable Consumption: A theoretical and environmental policy perspective. Society and Natural Resources, 16: 687 – 701 (el) (chm) (k)  
• Spaargaren, G. and S. Martens (2004) Globalisation and the role of Citizen-Consumers in Environmental Politics. In: Frank Wijen, Kees Zoeteman and Jan Pieters (eds.) A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy; National Government Interventions in a Global Arena. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (el) (chm) (k)  
• Arthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren (2005). From Additions and Withdrawals to Environmental Flows: Reframing Debates in the Environmental Social Sciences. Organization Environment 2005;18 91-107 (el) (ft-lim) (chm)(k)
• Complete list of publications at Wageningen University

Research projects

• CONTRAST-project: CONsumption TRAnsitions for suSTainability; a research project in collaboration with University of Tilburg, NMP and LEI research institutes, financed by GaMON and KSI-Bsik. (2004-2008)
• PROVIDE project, a major research project on water and waste(water) infrastructural development in three East-African countries, together with a number of WUR-partners, African institutes and universities, and WASTE-consultancy (2006-2011).
• WWW.Greenfood.wrld, an international comparative research project on Green Consumerism in Globalizing Food Markets, with Asian and Brazilian partners.
• DESAR-phase 1; an EET-funded major project on the application of Decentral Sanitation and Re-use technologies.

Educational tasks

• Theories and Themes: sociology and economics. ENP 22806 Wageningen University
• Principles of Environmental Sciences ESA 20806 Wageningen University
• Milieu en Maatschappij. 600266, Tilburg University
• Social Theory and the Environment ENP-32806 Wageningen University
• Contemporary Social Theory ENP-51306 Wageningen University
• Supervision Thesis Students

Other academic memberships and achievements

• Chair of SWOME, a Dutch national network of social science researchers in the field of environment and nature (2004- present).
• Associate Editor of Society and Natural Resources.
• Co-organizer of several workshops and regional congresses for the ISA-RC-24; upcoming are a workshop on Sustainable Consumption in Madison, Wisconson, june 2006 and a special session on Social Theory and the Environment during the Durban-conference july 2006.