Dr Marleen Buizer (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

My work for the Centre feels like an ‘excellent’ chance to connect my professional experiences elsewhere, to what I would really like to do and learn more about in Western Australia. I believe that dialogues in which we try to value professional and local knowledge equally can still greatly contribute to an in-depth understanding and actual improvement of the relationship between people and their environment. I wish to analyse the experiences and views of the pioneers in society, academia and policy institutions, how these are related, and learn together about what is happening and could still be changed.

Qualifications

• MSc. Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Phd. Social Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Some of my other Experiences

• Research in the Philippines (2,5 years), on rural development and deforestation.
• Policy advisory work in the European Parliament, in the fields of biotechnology, climate, forests, development, nature policy and management.
• Research in Vietnam, on the tensions of rural development and urbanization.
• European research on greenstructures and urban planning.
• Supervising MSc. Students.

Research Interests:

Policies and governance in the field of environment, agriculture, urban-rural interactions. Deliberative democracy and participation. Policy-Science-Civil Society Interface. Sense of place, discourse and institutional analysis, local knowledge. Issues of inclusion and exclusion.

Publications:

Buizer, I.M. and E. Turnhout (in prep.). “Creating Place Identity Through Talking and Doing Things: setting spatial and discursive boundaries as acts of subpolitical governance” (prel. worktitle)

Buizer, I.M., B. Arts and K. Kok (submitted nov 2009). “Governance, scaling and the environment: the need for integrated approaches”. In Ecology and Society – special issue edited by T. Veldkamp and K. Kok.

Presented at The “Forest Policies for a Sustainable Humanosphere” International Symposium, Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, February 17, 18, 2009; Inamori Center, Kyoto. In: De Jong, W. (ed.). Forest Policies for a Sustainable Humanosphere. CIAS Discussion Paper 8. Kyoto, Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University.

Arts, B. and I.M. Buizer (2009).
“Forests, discourses, institutions. A discursive-institutional analysis of global forest governance”. In: Forest Policy and Economics 11, p 340 – 347.
Buizer, I.M. (2008). “The various faces of place-based local initiatives: versions of subpolitics in the making?” Paper presented at the “Analysing Collaborative and Deliberative Forms of Governance” Workshop, 14th November 2008, ANU, Canberra.

Buizer, I.M. (2008) “Worlds Apart. Interactions between local initiatives and established policy”. PhD-thesis. Wageningen University and Research.

Centre of Excellence for Climate Change Woodland and Forest Health
School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
Murdoch University
Western Australia 6150
Australia

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