John De Boer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 315993 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John De Boer |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | De Boer |
| FIRMA | DE BOER J |
| AFILIACIONES | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7458-7148 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 316 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Vegetarianism and gender identity
Purpose A growing number of publications about vegetarians and/or vegans (henceforth “veg*ns”) report the (very small) number of people who make gender choices other than the binary options (henceforth “gender-diverse”) but drop them from the analysis. This creates a gap in our knowledge about intersections of food and identity, which we aim to fill. Design/methodology/approach Our work brings small numbers of gender-diverse people into current r…
How do European citizens prioritize environment and climate issues? The role of the value “Respect for the planet” in combination with education and cultural background
This study investigates whether citizens’ support of environment and climate policies can be stimulated by targeting their relationship to Planet Earth, using “Respect for the planet” as a political value. The study is based on seven Eurobarometer surveys across the period 2019 to 2024, supplemented by country-level data. Endorsing the value Respect for the planet was associated with a higher priority given to environment and climate issues, and …
Comparing the actions of gender-diverse and binary gender youths for an inclusive and green future
This paper addresses an underexplored intersection of youth societal engagement and gender inclusivity. Using a large dataset of young people (15 to 30 years), we could explicitly include in the analysis a small but statistically meaningful number of youths (N= 134) who did not feel they fit into the cultural categories of “women” and “men” (henceforth “gender-diverse people”). The aim of the analysis was to compare self-identified gender-diverse…
Measuring gender diversity in public surveys
Citizens and conspiratorial anti-science beliefs
This article aims to clarify citizens’ responses to conspiratorial anti-science beliefs (e.g. “The cure for cancer exists but is hidden from the public by commercial interests”). Based on Eurobarometer 95.2 (Spring 2021, 38 countries), we examine how public opposition or support for conspiratorial anti-science beliefs is related to individual- and country-level variables. There were large differences between the countries in their opposition or s…
Pro-environmental food practices in EU countries strongly suggest mutually reinforcing improvements in gender equality and environmental sustainability
This paper seeks to understand how pro-environmental food practices among women and men in the EU can be supported by considering the interlinkages between gender equality and environmental sustainability. A special aspect is that the role of gender equality is interpreted in terms of Schwartz's theory on national cultural values, which relates gender equality to cultures that emphasize intellectual autonomy and egalitarianism. The paper investig…
Considering how farm animal welfare concerns may contribute to more sustainable diets
This paper investigates how consumers can be guided towards healthy diets from sustainable and more animal-friendly food systems, in times when no single food system can be considered the best. In order to provide an alternative, the paper focuses on how farm animal welfare concerns can be translated into potential consumer goals, inspired by the "Three Rs" principles of Replacement, Reduction and Refinement, originally developed to systematicall…
Do EU consumers think about meat reduction when considering to eat a healthy, sustainable diet and to have a role in food system change
This paper aims to highlight the position of meat reduction in what EU consumers think "eating a healthy and sustainable diet" involves and who has a role to play in achieving food system change. The data are based on the Eurobarometer 93.2 survey (mid 2020). The participants were asked to make their own selections out of a variety of food-related items and actors, linked to meat ("Eating meat less often") and other aspects of diets ("Eating more…
Limiting vs. diversifying patterns of recommendations for key protein sources emerging
Purpose A shift to a healthy and sustainable diet (as recommended by the EAT Lancet Commission) needs to have a strong societal legitimation. This makes it relevant to investigate to what extent countries are using their Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDGs) in ways that can stimulate such a shift. Design/methodology/approach Given the pivotal role of protein, the authors examined what patterns of protein-related recommendations are used to guide…
Climate change and species decline
The next protein transition
Investigating urban vulnerability and resilience
There is growing recognition of the cumulative impact that converging environmental, political, social and economic risks have on the ability of cities to function in times of shocks and stresses. While many frameworks and assessment tools have been developed to assess the technical resilience of the infrastructure of cities, there have been fewer attempts to holistically understand and map all the factors that interact to potentially produce fun…
Fish as an alternative protein – A consumer-oriented perspective on its role in a transition towards more healthy and sustainable diets
Fish has several benefits that make it a desirable part of a healthy diet. It is also a high-protein product that can be used as a relatively efficient meat replacer. Both from a health and sustainability perspective, however, it is important to consider the optimum number of fish servings per week and to examine whether fish and plant protein can be brought under the same heading of alternative protein sources. To explore the consumer perspectiv…
Social Theories of Urban Violence in the Global South
In this chapter we explore the intersections of gender, mobility, and violence by analysing gender as a key mediator of mobility in two urban areas of Pakistan: Karachi and the twin cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad (R-I). Karachi is the commercial hub of the country, Islamabad is the federal capital, and Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the all-powerful Pakistani military. By “mobility” we mean not only the literal physical movement of transportat…
Unsustainable dietary habits of specific subgroups require dedicated transition strategies
Prospects for pro-environmental protein consumption in Europe
Towards more sustainable diets
Pursuing a Low Meat Diet to Improve Both Health and Sustainability
Towards a reduced meat diet
A new tool to map the major worldviews in the Netherlands and USA, and explore how they relate to climate change
For addressing climate change, public support for changes in policy is needed, as well changes in individual lifestyles. Both of these appear to be intimately related with people’s worldviews. Understanding these worldviews is therefore essential. In order to research and ‘map’ them, we translated the theoretical ‘Integrative Worldview Framework’ (IWF) into an empirical, quantitative approach. We constructed a worldview-scale aiming to distinguis…
Food and value motivation
This study uses the consumer affinity concept to examine the multiple motives that may shape consumers' relationships with food. The concept was applied in a study on four broad product types in the Netherlands, which cover a wide range of the market and may each appeal to consumers with different affinities towards foods. These product types may be denoted as 'conventional', 'efficient', 'gourmet' and 'pure'. A comparative analysis, based on Hig…
Help the climate, change your diet
Meat and masculinity among young Chinese, Turkish and Dutch adults in the Netherlands
Think tanks exist to influence
In this interview, Rohinton Medhora, the president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), joins John de Boer (senior policy adviser at the United Nations University) for a conversation exploring the notion of think tanks as influence peddlers and the future of foreign policy think tanks in Canada
Meatless days” or “less but better”? Exploring strategies to adapt Western meat consumption to health and sustainability challenges
Can we cut out the meat of the dish? Constructing consumer-oriented pathways towards meat substitution
Towards a reduced meat diet
Exploring inner and outer worlds
Meat and masculinity among young Chinese, Turkish and Dutch adults in the Netherlands
Meatless days” or “less but better”? Exploring strategies to adapt Western meat consumption to health and sustainability challenges
Transparency of the meat chain in the light of food culture and history
Help the climate, change your diet
Frame-based guide to situated decision-making on climate change
The present paper describes a frame-based approach to situated-decision-making on climate change. Building on the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between frames and decision-making, it argues that decision-makers may gain from making frames more explicit and using them for generating different visions about the central issues. Frames act as organizing principles that shape in a “hidden” and taken-for-granted way how people concep…
Prospects for pro-environmental protein consumption in Europe
Food and sustainability
Do EU consumers think about meat reduction when considering to eat a healthy, sustainable diet and to have a role in food system change
This paper aims to highlight the position of meat reduction in what EU consumers think "eating a healthy and sustainable diet" involves and who has a role to play in achieving food system change. The data are based on the Eurobarometer 93.2 survey (mid 2020). The participants were asked to make their own selections out of a variety of food-related items and actors, linked to meat ("Eating meat less often") and other aspects of diets ("Eating more…
The Organic Food Philosophy
Food consumption has been identified as a realm of key importance for progressing the world towards more sustainable consumption overall. Consumers have the option to choose organic food as a visible product of more ecologically integrated farming methods and, in general, more carefully produced food. This study aims to investigate the choice for organic from a cultural–historical perspective and aims to reveal the food philosophy of current orga…
A new tool to map the major worldviews in the Netherlands and USA, and explore how they relate to climate change
For addressing climate change, public support for changes in policy is needed, as well changes in individual lifestyles. Both of these appear to be intimately related with people’s worldviews. Understanding these worldviews is therefore essential. In order to research and ‘map’ them, we translated the theoretical ‘Integrative Worldview Framework’ (IWF) into an empirical, quantitative approach. We constructed a worldview-scale aiming to distinguis…
Unsustainable dietary habits of specific subgroups require dedicated transition strategies
Towards more sustainable diets
Food and value motivation
This study uses the consumer affinity concept to examine the multiple motives that may shape consumers' relationships with food. The concept was applied in a study on four broad product types in the Netherlands, which cover a wide range of the market and may each appeal to consumers with different affinities towards foods. These product types may be denoted as 'conventional', 'efficient', 'gourmet' and 'pure'. A comparative analysis, based on Hig…
Considering how farm animal welfare concerns may contribute to more sustainable diets
This paper investigates how consumers can be guided towards healthy diets from sustainable and more animal-friendly food systems, in times when no single food system can be considered the best. In order to provide an alternative, the paper focuses on how farm animal welfare concerns can be translated into potential consumer goals, inspired by the "Three Rs" principles of Replacement, Reduction and Refinement, originally developed to systematicall…
Climate change and species decline
Measuring gender diversity in public surveys
Investigating urban vulnerability and resilience
There is growing recognition of the cumulative impact that converging environmental, political, social and economic risks have on the ability of cities to function in times of shocks and stresses. While many frameworks and assessment tools have been developed to assess the technical resilience of the infrastructure of cities, there have been fewer attempts to holistically understand and map all the factors that interact to potentially produce fun…
Framing of risk and preferences for annual and multi-year flood insurance
The Economic Role of Sheep and Goats in Indonesia
∗ The research for this paper was conducted by the socioeconomics group at the Research Institute for Animal Production (Balat Penelitian Ternak. Bogor. and is part of the Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program. a USAID funded program in which a number of US research Institutions are cooperating with the Research Institute for Animal Production in Indonesia The ultimate goa1 of this program is to increase the food supply and raise …
Transparency of the meat chain in the light of food culture and history
Gauging Japan's Role in the Middle East
What is the driving force behind Japan's policy in the Middle East? Can it be summed up in one word, oil? Is Japan essentially the lapdog of the United States, or has it established an independent position on contentious issues in the region such as the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Iraq War, and Iran's nuclear development? Raquel Shaoul and John de Boer take up these questions in two articles as they evaluate Japan's impact on the Middle East
Before Oil
Israel and Japan are situated at opposite ends of Asia, but this is a fact which binds them together rather than separates them. The vast continent of Asia is their connecting link, and the consciousness of their Asian destiny is their common thought."David Ben-Gurion, 1 July 1952
Protein consumption and sustainability
Food and sustainability
Consumers' motivational associations favoring free-range meat or less meat
The role of prevention-oriented attitudes towards nature in people’s judgment of new applications of genomics techniques in soil ecology
New applications of genomics techniques in soil ecology may provide people with fresh insights into the richness of microbial life forms and natural methods to build on the “self-cleaning capacity” of soils. Because genetic modification might also be involved, this paper examines people’s judgments about some applications, using a theory on the promotion- or prevention-orientations that they may associate with interventions in the natural world. …
Frame-based guide to situated decision-making on climate change
The present paper describes a frame-based approach to situated-decision-making on climate change. Building on the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between frames and decision-making, it argues that decision-makers may gain from making frames more explicit and using them for generating different visions about the central issues. Frames act as organizing principles that shape in a “hidden” and taken-for-granted way how people concep…
On the merits of plant-based proteins for global food security
The Organic Food Philosophy
Food consumption has been identified as a realm of key importance for progressing the world towards more sustainable consumption overall. Consumers have the option to choose organic food as a visible product of more ecologically integrated farming methods and, in general, more carefully produced food. This study aims to investigate the choice for organic from a cultural–historical perspective and aims to reveal the food philosophy of current orga…
Can we cut out the meat of the dish? Constructing consumer-oriented pathways towards meat substitution
Framing of risk and preferences for annual and multi-year flood insurance
Exploring inner and outer worlds
Meatless days” or “less but better”? Exploring strategies to adapt Western meat consumption to health and sustainability challenges
Meat and masculinity among young Chinese, Turkish and Dutch adults in the Netherlands
Think tanks exist to influence
In this interview, Rohinton Medhora, the president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), joins John de Boer (senior policy adviser at the United Nations University) for a conversation exploring the notion of think tanks as influence peddlers and the future of foreign policy think tanks in Canada
A new tool to map the major worldviews in the Netherlands and USA, and explore how they relate to climate change
For addressing climate change, public support for changes in policy is needed, as well changes in individual lifestyles. Both of these appear to be intimately related with people’s worldviews. Understanding these worldviews is therefore essential. In order to research and ‘map’ them, we translated the theoretical ‘Integrative Worldview Framework’ (IWF) into an empirical, quantitative approach. We constructed a worldview-scale aiming to distinguis…
Food and value motivation
This study uses the consumer affinity concept to examine the multiple motives that may shape consumers' relationships with food. The concept was applied in a study on four broad product types in the Netherlands, which cover a wide range of the market and may each appeal to consumers with different affinities towards foods. These product types may be denoted as 'conventional', 'efficient', 'gourmet' and 'pure'. A comparative analysis, based on Hig…
Help the climate, change your diet
Pursuing a Low Meat Diet to Improve Both Health and Sustainability
Towards a reduced meat diet
Social Theories of Urban Violence in the Global South
In this chapter we explore the intersections of gender, mobility, and violence by analysing gender as a key mediator of mobility in two urban areas of Pakistan: Karachi and the twin cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad (R-I). Karachi is the commercial hub of the country, Islamabad is the federal capital, and Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the all-powerful Pakistani military. By “mobility” we mean not only the literal physical movement of transportat…
Unsustainable dietary habits of specific subgroups require dedicated transition strategies
Prospects for pro-environmental protein consumption in Europe
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