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Gert Spaargaren is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research spans several interconnected fields and subfields, including Social Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Food Science, Pollution, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work addresses multiple topics, notably:

  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Food Supply Chain Traceability
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • What could go wrong with cooking? Exploring vulnerability at the water, energy and food Nexus in Kampala through a social practices lens, 2020, published in Global Environmental Change
  • Reworking boundaries in the home-as-office: boundary traffic during COVID-19 lockdown and the future of working from home, 2022, published in Sustainability Science Practice and Policy
  • Fisher and Trader Responses to Traceability Interventions in Indonesia, 2020, published in Society & Natural Resources
  • Responses of Indonesian tuna processing companies to enhanced public and private traceability, 2020, published in Marine Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Spaargaren include:

  • Simon R. Bush
  • Mandy Doddema
  • Budy Wiryawan
  • Patience Mguni
  • B.J.M. van Vliet

Their research contributions are regularly published in venues such as:

  • Global Environmental Change
  • Sustainability Science Practice and Policy
  • Society & Natural Resources
  • Marine Policy

Best Publications

  • Ecological modernisation theory in debate: A review

    Arthur P.J. Mol;Gert Spaargaren

  • Sociology, environment, and modernity: Ecological modernization as a theory of social change

    Gert Spaargaren;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Sustainable Consumption: A Theoretical and Environmental Policy Perspective

    Gert Spaargaren

  • Theories of practices: Agency, technology, and culture. Exploring the relevance of practice theories for the governance of sustainable consumption practices in the new world-order

    Gert Spaargaren

  • Lifestyles, consumption and the environment: The ecological modernization of domestic consumption

    Gert Spaargaren;Bas Van Vliet

  • The Ecological Modernisation Reader. Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice

    Arthur P.J. Mol;David A. Sonnenfeld;Gert Spaargaren

  • The ecological modernization of production and consumption : essays in environmental sociology

    G. Spaargaren

  • Environment, modernity and the risk-society: the apocalyptic horizon of environmental reform.

    Arthur P.J. Mol;Gert Spaargaren

  • Greening global consumption: Redefining politics and authority

    Gert Spaargaren;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Environment and Global Modernity

    Gert Spaargaren;A. P. J. Mol;Frederick H. Buttel

  • Citizen-Consumers as Agents of Change in Globalizing Modernity: The Case of Sustainable Consumption

    Gert Spaargaren;Peter Oosterveer

  • Food Practices in Transition - Changing Food Consumption, Retail and Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity

    Gert Spaargaren;Peter Oosterveer;Anne Loeber

  • Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity

    G. Spaargaren

  • When social practices meet smart grids : Flexibility, grid management, and domestic consumption in The Netherlands

    Robin Smale;Bas van Vliet;Gert Spaargaren

  • Ecological modernization theory and domestic consumption

    Gert Spaargaren

  • Smart grids, information flows and emerging domestic energy practices

    Joeri Naus;Gert Spaargaren;Bas J.M. van Vliet;Hilje M. van der Horst

  • Promoting sustainable consumption in China: a conceptual framework and research review

    Wenling Liu;Peter Oosterveer;Gert Spaargaren

  • Energy consumption practices of rural households in north China: Basic characteristics and potential for low carbon development

    Wenling Liu;Wenling Liu;Gert Spaargaren;Nico Heerink;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Governing environmental flows : global challenges to social theory

    Gert Spaargaren;A. P. J. Mol;Frederick H. Buttel

  • Ecological modernization theory. Taking stock, moving forward

    Arthur P.J. Mol;Gert Spaargaren;David A. Sonnenfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur P.J. Mol
Arthur P.J. Mol Wageningen University & Research
Peter Oosterveer
Peter Oosterveer Wageningen University & Research
Grietje Zeeman
Grietje Zeeman Wageningen University & Research
Elizabeth Shove
Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University
Simon R. Bush
Simon R. Bush Wageningen University & Research

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