Dr. M.J. Spierenburg

Dinsdag, donderdag en vrijdag.

• Internationale samenwerking;
• CSR en filantropie;
• Gender;
• NGO's en publiek-private samenwerkingsverbanden;
• Duurzame ontwikkeling, allianties in natuurbeheer, landgebruik;
• Transnationaal ondernemerschap; &
• Diversiteit in organisaties.

Thema’s: publiek-private samenwerking en de rol van het bedrijfsleven in milieubescherming en landhervormingen in Zuidelijk Afrika, Corporate Social Responsibility en sociaal ondernemerschap.

Projectleider NWO-WOTRO Integrated Programme getiteld: ‘Farm Dwellers, the Forgotten People? Consequences of Conversions to Private Wildlife Production in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape’. Partners: Free State University (South Africa), University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).

Overige onderzoeksprojecten:

• Popular land struggles, elites and nature conservation in Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TCFAs) in Southern Africa (i.s.m. Stellenbosch University, gefinancierd door het South Africa-Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD)).
• Partnering with the Private Sector: The impacts of joint ventures between land reform beneficiaries and the private sector in Limpopo Province (i.s.m. het Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, gefinancierd door SANPAD).

• Public Management;
• Enterprising Regions; & 
• Masterthesis (overzicht thesisonderwerp).

Publicaties (Bron: METIS VU)

Recente boekpublicatie:

• Ramutsindela, Maano, Marja Spierenburg & Harry Wels (2011) Sponsoring nature: Environmental philanthropy for nature conservation, London: Earthscan.

Recente artikelen:

• Brooks, Shirley, Marja Spierenburg, Lot van Brakel, Annemarie Kolk, Kethabakhe B. LuKhozi (2011) Creating a commodified wilderness: Tourism, private game farming, and ‘third nature’ landscapes in KwaZulu-Natal, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geografie, 102(3), 260-274.
• Spierenburg, Marja & Harry Wels (2010) Conservative philanthropists, royalty and business elites in nature conservation in southern Africa, Antipode,42(3), 647-670.
• Milgroom, Jessica & Marja Spierenburg (2008) Induced volition: resettlement from the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 26(4), 435-448.

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