dr. KAJ (Koen) Arts MSc MA

dr. KAJ (Koen) Arts MSc MA

Docent

See www.koenarts.com/wetenschap for the most up to date overview of activities and publications.

Koen Arts is a Lecturer focussing on human dimensions of nature conservation. He often works from a political ecology perspective on topics such human-wildlife interaction and conflict; community-based conservation; applications of digital technologies; wild nature recreation; rewilding; and cultural aspects of conservation. He has worked in various places around the world, including India, Scotland and Brazil. His work features in prominent journals in the field,  Ambio, Environmental Science and Policy, Land Use Policy, Restoration Ecology and Science of the Total Environment. Click here for a list of his scientific publications. Koen has edited an Ambio Special Issue on Digital Conservation, authored various other professional publications, and has peer-reviewed for more than twenty different scientific journals. 

He is course coordinator for the BSc course Forest, Nature, Society (FNP-11806); and for the MSc course Communities, Conservation and Development (FNP-31306).

A passionate conservationist, Koen also has a strong interest in green writing beyond academia. He is co-owner of Green Roots, a company that promotes nature skill, and co-founder and board member of Wildeor, a foundation that promotes positive relationships with nature. 

 

Biography

2015-   Lecturer Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

2015-2016   Research Fellowship (Science without borders, CNPq) 'Digital conservation in the Developing new political ecology perspectives on digital applications in natural resource conservation'. Pantanal Research Centre, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil.

2012-2014   Research Fellowship Natural Resource Conservation group, dot.rural, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

2008-2012   PhD in Biological Sciences (passed with no corrections required), University of Aberdeen and The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom. Prof. Anke Fischer and Prof. René van der Wal. External Prof. Bill Adams, University of Cambridge.

2002-2008   BA and MA (cum laude) in Philosophy. social and political philosophy. Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

2003-2005   Interdisciplinary Honours Programme Certificate, extracurricular evening programme. theory of literature. Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

2001-2007   BSc and MSc (cum laude) in Forest and Nature Conservation. Specialisation: policy and management. Wageningen University, the Netherlands.