J. S. C. Wiskerke

Publication List Details

Period

1991 - 2010

Number

127

Co-Authors

Social Acceptance of Dairy Farming: The Ambivalence Between the Two Faces of Modernity (Online First) (2010)

Boogaard, B.K., Bock, B.B., Oosting, S.J., Wiskerke, J.S.C.

Society’s relationship with modern animal farming is an ambivalent one: on the one hand there is rising criticism about modern animal farming; on the other hand people appreciate certain aspects of...

Linking birds, fields and farmers (2009)

Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S.C.

The dramatic decline in the presence of farmland birds during recent decades has provoked much attention in agri-environmental policy and ecological research. However, the still limited understanding...

Integrated Rural Policy in Context: A Case Study on the Meaning of 'Integration' and the Politics of 'Sectoring' (2009)

Derkzen, P.H.M., Bock, B.B., Wiskerke, J.S.C.

Partnerships for rural development are often presented as powerful ways of promoting 'integration'. This paper examines the reality of this claim, first by analysing what 'integration' means and then...

On Places Lost and Places Regained: Reflections on the Alternative Food Geography and Sustainable Regional Development (2009)

Wiskerke, J.S.C.

This paper departs from the observation that the industrialization and globalization of the agri-food supply chain has disconnected food from its socio-cultural and physical territorial context. In...

Constructing a Sustainable Pork Supply Chain: a Case of Techno-institutional Innovation (2007)

Wiskerke, J.S.C., Roep, D.

Pork production in the Netherlands is dominated by an agro-industrial approach, which has led to several sustainability problems. Due to path dependency, this prevailing mode of production is...

Integrating nature conservation and landscape management in farming systems in the Friesian Woodlands (2006)

Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S.C.

The future of agriculture and its role in rural areas is a topic of ongoing societal, political and scientific debate in Europe. Rural development, characterized by integrating functions such as food...

Integrating nature conservation and landscape management in farming systems in the Friesian Woodlands (The Netherlands) (2005)

Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S.C.

This paper is an intermediate result of an ongoing research project about rural development and multifunctional agriculture. The research project is part of a Dutch - French research programme...

Integrating nature conservation and landscape management in farming systems in the Friesian Woodlands (2005)

Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S.C.

The future of agriculture and its role in rural areas is a topic of ongoing societal, political and scientific debate in Europe. Rural development, characterized by integrating functions such as food...

On promising niches and constraining sociotechnical regimes: the case of Dutch wheat and bread (2003)

Wiskerke, J.S.C.

Growing concerns about the consequences of large-scale production systems and, subsequently, the growing public demand for changing the dominant mode of agricultural production have become important...

Environmental co-operatives as a new mode of rural governance (2003)

Wiskerke, J.S.C., Bock, B.B., Stuiver, M., Renting, H.

The modernization paradigm, which for many decades dominated agricultural practices, policies and science, is gradually being replaced by a rural development paradigm. The emerging rural development...

Managing technical-institutional design processes: some strategic lessons from environmental co-operatives in the Netherlands (2003)

Roep, D., Wiskerke, J.S.C.

In this paper the case of the environmental co-operatives VEL and VANLA is reviewed in terms of coevolving technical and institutional change and the strategic lessons to be learned for a pro-active...

Zeeuwse akkerbouw tussen verandering en continuïteit. Een sociologische studie naar diversiteit in landbouwbeoefening, technologieontwikkeling en plattelandsvernieuwing. (1997)

Wiskerke, J.S.C.

INTRODUCTION(Chapter 1)In agricultural science, farming is often seen as an activity guided by the 'iron' laws of nature or by the 'iron' laws of economy. In this book I take a different position....