Prof. Leontine Visser

Name: Visser, Leontine Elisabeth Leontine Vissers
Office Address: Rural Development Sociology, De Leeuwenborch, Hollandseweg 1,
6706 KN Wageningen.
Telephone number office: *31.317.482015
Email work: leontine.visser@wur.nl
Present function: Professor and Chair, Rural Development Sociology, Social Science Group, Wageningen University.

Education:

1976 Doctoral (MA) in Cultural Anthropology. Topics: cognitive anthropology, rural sociology, ethnobotany
1984 Ph.D. Anthropology, Leiden University, on shifting cultivation and social organization, Sahu (Halmahera), Eastern Indonesia.

Other relevant activities
1996 Head of Department, Dept. of Anthropology, Faculty PSCW, Amsterdam
1998-2001 Member Netherlands LOICZ Committee, KNAW
1998-1999 Co-operation with J-L. de Kock (Universiteit Twente), conceptualization and publication CD-Rom on Integrated Coastal Zone Research Management (WOTRO)
1999 Professor, Coastal Zone Management course, Postgraduate Programme in Marine
Geosciences. Christian Albrechts University, Kiel.
2000-2006 Member of the Joint Programme Committee of Biodiversity Research Programme for Mt. Malindang, Mindanao, The Philippines (DGIS/RAWOO)
2001-present Chair, Centre for Maritime Research (MARE), UvA/WUR.
2004 (May) Guest lecturer Universite Paris X, Nanterre, France.
2005 (Feb.) Guest lecturer University of Faro (EMAC), Portugal.
2005- present Member Editorial Board Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, SEARCA, The Philippines
2005- present Member Editorial Board The Asian Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA), RSPAS/ANU, Canberra, Australia.

Research projects & management
1994 - 1999 Member of research management team; supervision of anthropological part of Interdisciplinary Project (WOTRO W 01.60) on "Sustainable coastal management in SW Sulawesi" (Buginesia)
2002-2006 Membership Joint Programme Committee (BRP-JPC) of the Biodiversity Research Project, Mindanao, The Philippines.
2006-2008 Project leader of EU-Asia Link: Coastalprofs : From postgraduate to professional – A partnership for the development of a course for professional capacity in coastal zone managers.
2006-2010 NUFFIC (NPT) Project leader : Building capacity of the IAIN Walisongo, Semarang, and associated institutes for conflict prevention, resolution, and peace building activities in Indonesia.
2007-2011 RESCOPAR: Rebuilding resilience of coastal populations and aquatic resources: habitats, biodiversity and sustainable use options. INREF-Wageningen. Supervisor of 3 PhDs in Indonesia (Kalimantan) and Vietnam (Ca Mau).
2008-2012 Project leader Nuffic-NPT/250 Competence-oriented Curriculum Development of Agricultural Faculties in Eastern Indonesian universities & Polytechnics (UNIPA, UNPATTI, UNDANA, POLYTANI).

Relevant Publications
1989 My ricefield is my child. Social and territorial aspects of swidden cultivation in Sahu, Eastern Indoneisa . VKI 136, Foris Publications. Dordrecht
1994 Halmahera and Beyond. Social Science in the Moluccas in the 1980s. Proceedings No.1. KITLV Press, Leiden
1992a 'Natural resource management: Shifting power, not problems.' In Field research and theory on environment and development in the Cagayan Valley, Philippines. CVPED/Isabela University:308-314
1993a 'Administering poverty.' In J.-P. Dirkse, F. Husken, M. Rutten (eds.). Development and social welfare. Indonesia's experiences under the New Order:185-191. Leiden, KITLV Press.
1995 N. Schulte Nordholt and L. Visser (Eds). Social science in Southeast Asia.
1998a 'Report of the socio-economic working group' in Burnett, J.B., Y. de Fretes, P. Kramadibrata eds. The Irian Jaya Biodiversity Conservation Priority-Setting Workshop: Final Report, plus Map. Washington DC. Conservation International
1998b i.s.m. J.C.J.M. van den Bergh, D.S. de Groot, C.H.R. Heip, P.M.J. Herman, J.W. de Leeuw, W. Salomons, I. De Vries. Global Change: Economic and Social Impact and Responses in
Coastal Systems. The Netherlands LOICZ Programme Implementation Plan Focus 4. KNAW. Amsterdam
2001e ‘Remaining poor on natural riches? The fallacy of community development in Irian Jaya Papua.’ The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 2(2):68-88.
2004 L. Visser (Ed.) Challenging Coasts. Transdisciplinary excursions into integrated coastal zone development. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2004a Introduction. In L.E. Visser (ed.). Challenging Coasts. Transdisiplinary excursions into integrated coastal zone development: 11-21. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2004b Reflections on transdisciplinarity, integrated coastal development, and governance. In L.E. Visser (ed.). Challenging Coasts. Transdisiplinary excursions into integrated coastal zone development: 23-47. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2005 Development sociology and the interaction between the social and the natural sciences. In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development Vol. 1(2): 68-74. (2 columns).
2007a with M.V. Ticsay, R. van Veenhuizen. 2007. Reflections on a demand-driven Biodiversity Research Programme for development in Mindanao, The Philippines (2000-2006). DGIS, The Hague/SEARCA, Manila. 66 pp.
2007b with D.S. Adhuri. ‘Fishing in, fishing out: Transboundary issues and the territorialization of blue space.’ In G. Persoon and H.M. Hsiao (Eds), Special Issue on Transboundary environmental issues, Asia Pacific Forum. 36: 112-145.

Last update:
August 28, 2010

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