Machiel Lamers

Machiel Lamers (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University, with a specialty in the field of tourism, natural resource use, and mobility-focused information systems. He obtained his PhD in 2009 at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) on the sustainability challenges and governance of Antarctic tourism development. He currently conducts innovative research on sustainable tourism, nature conservation and environmental governance in various parts of the world, including the Arctic and Antarctic, Latin America and Indonesia. He contributes to core social theoretical development on environmental flows and networks, practices, and informational governance. Dr. Lamers is a member of the Steering Group of the Polar Prediction Project, a flagship programme of the World Meteorological Organisation, as well as a co-chair of its Social and Economic Research Applications task group.