DR. Dik Roth, Ph.DDik Roth

Name: Dik Roth

Office address: Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN, Wageningen,

The Netherlands

Office phone number:  0317-484689

E-mail: dik.roth@wur.nl

Current position: Assistant Professor, Law and Governance

Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

 

 

 

Education

Dik Roth graduated in sociology and cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his Ph.D. in social sciences from Wageningen University in 2003, with a dissertation on land and water rights in Indonesia.

 

Research areas and interests

Research interests are, among others, property rights to natural resources, resource governance, and the policy and politics of flood security.

 

Current research

Current research focuses on the politics of regional autonomy in Indonesia, natural resources governance, and flood security in the Netherlands.

 

Current teaching

Various BSc. and MSc. courses on property rights and natural resources, resource governance; see http://www.law.wur.nl/UK/Staff/

 

Selected publications

Roth, Dik (2009) ‘Property and Authority in a Migrant Society: Balinese Irrigators in Sulawesi, Indonesia’, Development and Change 40 (1): 195-217.

Roth, Dik and Madelinde Winnubst (2009) Reconstructing the polder: negotiating property rights and „blue functions“ for land`, International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology 8 (1): 37-56.

Roth, Dik and Jeroen Warner (2008) ‘Virtual water: virtuous impact? The unsteady state of virtual water’. Agriculture and Human Values 25: 257-270.

M.D.A. Le Tissier, S. Coulthard, D. Roth and H.A.Y. Whyte (eds.) (2008). Integrated Coastal Management -From post - graduate to professional Coastal Manager - a teaching manual. www.coastalprofs.eu

Roth, Dik and Jeroen Warner (2007) ‘Flood risk, uncertainty and changing river protection policy in The Netherlands: the case of ‘calamity polders’. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 98 (4): 519-525.

Roth, D. (2007) ‘Many governors, no province. The struggle for a province in the Luwu-Tana Toraja area in South Sulawesi’, in Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry van Klinken (eds) Renegotiating boundaries. Local politics in Post-Soeharto Indonesia, pp. 121-147. Leiden: KITLV Press.

Roth, D., J. Warner en M. Winnubst (2006) Een noodverband tegen hoog water. Waterkennis, beleid en politiek rond noodoverloopgebieden. Wageningen: Wageningen Universiteit en Researchcentrum.

Roth, D. (2006) ‘Which Order? Whose Order? Balinese Irrigation Management in Sulawesi, Indonesia’. Oxford Development Studies 34 (1): 33-46.

Roth, D. (2005) ‘’Lebensraum in Luwu. Emergent identity, migration and access to land’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI) 161-4: 485-516.

Roth, D., R. Boelens and M. Zwarteveen (eds) (2005) Liquid Relations. Contested Water rights and Legal Complexity. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

 

Languages:

Dutch (mother tongue), English, Indonesian (fluent), German, French (fair).

 

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