Wageningen UR - Wageningen University

Name and address
Name	Han Wiskerke
Room	2041
Telephone	+31.(0)317.482679 or 484507
Fax	+31.(0)317.485475
E-mail	Han.Wiskerke@wur.nl

Position Chair and Professor

Qualifications

1992 MSc Plant Production (Wageningen University)
1997 PhD Rural Sociology (Wageningen University)

Management and administrative tasks
1.	Rural Sociology Group
	- -	Head of Rural Sociology Group Chair daily management team
2.	External
	-	Chair Supervisory Board of ECEAT-The Netherlands and ECEAT-projects

Research
1.	Programme coordinator of "Agrarian and Rural Dynamics in the Metropolitan Landscape": January 2008 – December 2012
2.	Programme coordinator of "Dynamics and Sustainability of Regional Food Networks": January 2008 – December 2012
3.	Project coordinator of "Dynamics and Robustness of Multifunctional Agriculture": February 2009 – February 2011 (funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality)
4.	WP Leader and Steering Group Member of the EC-funded project (FP7) "Assessing the impact of rural development policies (incl. LEADER) (RuDI)": January 2008 - September 2010

Teaching
1.	Agricultural and Rural Development: Sociological Perspectives (RSO-20806)
2.	Globalisation and Sustainability of Food Production and Consumption (ENP-31806)
3.	Origin Food: a Market for Identity (RSO-21806)
4.	Understanding Rural Development: Theories, Practices & Methodologies (RSO-31806)
5.	Capita Selecta Agricultural and Rural Innovation Processes (RSO-51303)
6.	Qualities of Food Around the World (RSO-53806)

Key publications
Wiskerke, J.S.C. (2010).
	On places lost and places regained: reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development, International Planning Studies 14 (4): 361–379
Wiskerke, J.S.C. (2007).
	Robuuste regio’s: dynamiek, samenhang en diversiteit in het metropolitane landschap, Inaugural Address, Wageningen University, 57 pp.
Wiskerke, J.S.C. & D. Roep (2007).
	Constructing a Sustainable Pork Supply Chain: a Case of Techno-institutional Innovation, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 9: 53-74.
Roep, D. & J.S.C. Wiskerke (eds.), 2006.
	Nourishing networks – fourteen lessons about creating sustainable food supply chains, Reed Business Information, Doetinchem, 176 pp.
Wiskerke, J.S.C. (2004).
	Rural sociology in the Netherlands: Past, present and future, Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie 02/04: 39-63.
Wiskerke, J.S.C. & J.D. van der Ploeg (eds.), 2004.
	Seeds of transition: essays on novelty production, niches and regimes in agriculture, Van Gorcum, Assen.
Roep, D., J.D. van der Ploeg & J.S.C. Wiskerke (2003).
	Managing technical-institutional design processes: some strategic lessons from environmental co-operatives in the Netherlands, NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 51: 195-217.
Wiskerke, J.S.C., B.B. Bock, M. Stuiver & H. Renting (2003).
	Environmental co-operatives as a new mode of rural governance, NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 51: 9-26.
Wiskerke, J.S.C. (2003).
	On promising niches and constraining regimes: the case of Dutch wheat and bread, Environment and Planning A 35: 429-448.
Wiskerke, J.S.C. (2001).
	Multifunctionality and rural development: topics for a new socio-economic research agenda, Tijdschrift voor sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek van de landbouw 16 (2): 114-119.
Wiskerke, J.S.C. (1997).
	Zeeuwse akkerbouw tussen verandering en continuïteit: Een sociologische studie naar diversiteit in landbouwbeoefening, technologieontwikkeling en plattelandsvernieuwing. PhD thesis, Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen, 412 pp.