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Wageningen School of Social Sciences

The mission of WASS is to understand social processes with regard to today’s global challenges of disparities and poverty, of responsible production and consumption, of natural resource use and the environment, as well as of knowledge in society.

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Agenda

  • Global Change and the Challenge of Sustainably Feeding a Growing Planet - 1.5 ECTS
    July 6, 2022
  • Masterclass Methodological and Ethical Dimensions of Fieldwork
    August 31, 2022
  • Advanced Microeconomics - 6 ECTS
    September 5, 2022
  • Causal Inference in Empirical Economics - 4 ECTS
    September 5, 2022
  • Analysing Discourse: Theories and Methods - 6 ECTS
    September 5, 2022
  • From Business Theory to Practical Application - 2 ECTS
    September 8, 2022
  • Environmental and Resource Economics – Module: Climate Economics - 2 ECTS
    October 3, 2022
  • Principles and Practices of Multifactorial Survey Experiments - 3 ECTS
    December 12, 2022

Upcoming PhD defenses

  • Advanced Social Theory - 6 ECTS
    September 5, 2022 - This course enables students to select an inspiring theoretical framework for social scientific research. The course consists of lectures and...

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WASS News

  • September 2, 2021
    Prof. dr. Anita Hardon appointed as Professor and chair of the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group
  • May 31, 2021
    Significant role of blogosphere in discourse on climate change
  • October 23, 2020
    WASS Publication Awards




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Latest publications

  • Waarom het soms beter is om toch tomaten uit Spanje te eten
    Berkhout, Petra , Pauls-Worm, Karin (2022) Waarom het soms beter is om toch tomaten uit Spanje te eten, NU.nl, 2022-04-28, Mirjam Bedaf, https://www.nu.nl/eten-en-drinken/6197321/waarom-het-soms-beter-is-om-toch-tomaten-uit-spanje-te-eten.html
  • Cultivating students’ sustainability-oriented learning at the interface of science and society: a configuration of interrelated enablers
    Tassone, Valentina C. , Brok, Perry den , Tho, Cassandra W.S. , Wals, Arjen E.J. (2022) International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 23 (2022)8. - ISSN 1467-6370 - p. 255 - 271.
  • Planning for environmental change: Rural area reclassified
    Bakker, Martha (2022) Planning for environmental change: Rural area reclassified, ENP Newswire, 2022-04-21

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