Pieter Glasbergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 323007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pieter Glasbergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Glasbergen |
| SIGNATURE | GLASBERGEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Governance challenges of cocoa partnership projects in Indonesia: Seeking synergy in multi-stakeholder arrangements for sustainable agriculture
This paper investigates multi-stakeholder arrangements initiated by businesses and NGOs from the North that aim to enhance a more sustainable agricultural production at specific localities in Southern countries. We aim to better understand the search for concerted action in multi-actor arrangements. Therefore, this paper presents a diagnostic framework with three strategic challenges the partnership projects are facing: linking global economic ob…
Smallholders do not Eat Certificates
Certification and Farmer Organisation: Indonesian Smallholder Perceptions of Benefits
Both certification and participation in farmer organizations are associated with economic and social benefits for farmers. However, knowledge about potential differences in perceived benefits resulting from participating in different forms of organization and certification schemes is limited. In this paper, we distinguish three types of farmer organizations in the Indonesian coffee sector: farmer groups, cooperatives and KUBEs. We compare the per…
The influence of populism on tolerance: A thematic content analysis of the Dutch Islam debate
Historically, religious tolerance has been an integral part of Dutch identity. Yet, this image has changed, particularly in the last 20 years due to the influence of populism that predominantly focused on the stigmatisation of Islam. This paper examines how this development has changed the meaning of tolerance in the public debate about Islam and what this change means for the social and political conditions for integration in the Netherlands. An…
Sustainable palm oil as a public responsibility? On the governance capacity of Indonesian Standard for Sustainable Palm Oil (Ispo)
This paper is motivated by the observation that Southern governments start to take responsibility for a more sustainable production of agricultural commodities as a response to earlier private initiatives by businesses and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Indonesia is one of the leading countries in this respect, with new public sustainability regulations on coffee, cocoa and palm oil. Based on the concept of governance capacity, the paper …
Spotlights on certification and farmers' welfare: Crossing Boundaries in Social Scientific Research
Social scientists have the freedom to adopt different methodological approaches when researching development. This article illustrates how four common social scientific methodologies (positivism, social constructivism, action research, and normative political theory) differently conceptualise the effects of sustainability certification on Indonesian smallholder farmers. It shows that each approach results in different insights, offering a web of …
Serving a heterogeneous Muslim identity? Private governance arrangements of halal food in the Netherlands
The consumption of halal food may be seen as an expression of the Muslim identity. Within Islam, different interpretations of ‘halal’ exist and the pluralistic Muslim community requests diverse halal standards. Therefore, adaptive governance arrangements are needed in the halal food market. Globalization and industrialization have complicated the governance of halal food. A complex network of halal governors has developed from the local to the gl…
Boundary work in sustainability partnerships: An exploration of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil
Dealing with tensions of multiculturalism: The politics of ritual slaughter in the Netherlands
This article deals with the question how cultural diversity, expressed in a parliamentary debate, can influence the space given to religious minorities to substantiate their identity. The debate about the prohibition of non-stunned ritual slaughter in the Dutch Parliament in 2011/2012 serves as case study. A frame analysis reveals that tensions exist between minority rights and majority values and with regard to the regulation of religion in the …
Business–NGO partnerships in global value chains: Part of the solution or part of the problem of sustainable change
Elaborating global private meta-governance: An inventory in the realm of voluntary sustainability standards
On the deliberative capacity of private multi-stakeholder governance: The Roundtables on Responsible Soy and Sustainable Palm Oil
Playing the politics of scale: Oxfam’s intervention in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Partnerships of a feather flock together? An analysis of the emergence of networks of partnerships in the global cocoa sector
In this article, we move away from the case study approach dominant in the literature on partnerships and explore the emergence of networks of partnerships. Taking the global cocoa sector as our research setting, we examine 55 partnerships to analyse the linkages between them, their evolution over time, as well as the simultaneous occurrence of cooperation and competition. We discover that the partnerships are connected to each other through over…
Creating legitimacy in global private governance: The case of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Interaction Management by Partnerships: The Case of Biodiversity and Climate Change
This article examines the contributions that partnerships make to interaction management. Our conceptualization of interaction management builds on earlier contributions to the literature on regimes and governance. The article focuses on the interactions among the biodiversity and climate change governance systems, since these systems interact intensively on the issues of biofuels and forests (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degr…
Conservation partnerships and biodiversity governance: Fulfilling governance functions through interaction
Over the last decades, new governance mechanisms such as partnerships have been increasingly accepted as instruments for sustainable development. This article contributes to an improved understanding of the contributions of partnerships, and their interactions with and consequences for intergovernmental regimes. It answers the question to what extent the roles of international intersectoral partnerships in biodiversity governance can be assessed …
Global action networks: Agents for collective action
Conversion to Organic Dairy Production in the Netherlands: Opportunities and Constraints
Organic agriculture is perceived as being more sustainable than conventional agriculture. However, while there is a growing interest in, and market for, organic products, large-scale conversion to organic agriculture is not taking place. Even though conversion from conventional to organic dairy production is not especially difficult in theory, conversion is slow in this specific sector. The conversion process to organic agriculture is often analy…
City and Environment
This book takes a social-ecological approach to the study of the sustainability of cities. The approach aims to connect the biological and geophysical processes studied by ecologists with knowledge about human behavior as studied by social scientists. The book also aims to help in the search for pathways that can turn cities into ecologically sustainable places. Most of the chapters address cities in the developing and developed world from both a…
Intersectoral partnerships for a sustainable coffee chain: Really addressing sustainability or just picking (coffee) cherries
Voluntary Agreements in Watershed Protection Experiences From Costa Rica
Partnerships in forest governance
Assessment of the Potential of Ecolabels to Promote Agrobiodiversity
We conducted a study to assess to what extent current ecolabels contain standards that stimulate conservation and sustainable use of on-farm biodiversity of agricultural landscapes (agrobiodiversity). First, we developed an agrobiodiversity management yardstick to assess and compare the labeling schemes of ecolabels for arable farming. Key characteristics of the yardstick are the five levels linking the abstract notion of agrobiodiversity managem…
Public perceptions of Bhutan's approach to sustainable development in practice
This paper focuses on the practical approach to sustainable development in Bhutan and specifically on public views on and experiences with the implementation of this strategy. Bhutan's development goal is ‘gross national happiness’. The strategy it has adopted to achieve this goal is known as the ‘middle path strategy’, which essentially addresses four sources (‘pillars’) of gross national happiness: economic development, ecological preservation,…
Elaborating global private meta-governance: An inventory in the realm of voluntary sustainability standards
Partnerships in forest governance
Intersectoral partnerships for a sustainable coffee chain: Really addressing sustainability or just picking (coffee) cherries
Sustainable palm oil as a public responsibility? On the governance capacity of Indonesian Standard for Sustainable Palm Oil (Ispo)
This paper is motivated by the observation that Southern governments start to take responsibility for a more sustainable production of agricultural commodities as a response to earlier private initiatives by businesses and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Indonesia is one of the leading countries in this respect, with new public sustainability regulations on coffee, cocoa and palm oil. Based on the concept of governance capacity, the paper …
Playing the politics of scale: Oxfam’s intervention in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Global action networks: Agents for collective action
Business–NGO partnerships in global value chains: Part of the solution or part of the problem of sustainable change
Interaction Management by Partnerships: The Case of Biodiversity and Climate Change
This article examines the contributions that partnerships make to interaction management. Our conceptualization of interaction management builds on earlier contributions to the literature on regimes and governance. The article focuses on the interactions among the biodiversity and climate change governance systems, since these systems interact intensively on the issues of biofuels and forests (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degr…
Boundary work in sustainability partnerships: An exploration of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil
Conservation partnerships and biodiversity governance: Fulfilling governance functions through interaction
Over the last decades, new governance mechanisms such as partnerships have been increasingly accepted as instruments for sustainable development. This article contributes to an improved understanding of the contributions of partnerships, and their interactions with and consequences for intergovernmental regimes. It answers the question to what extent the roles of international intersectoral partnerships in biodiversity governance can be assessed …
Seven Steps Towards an Instrumentation Theory for Environmental Policy
This article focuses on the questions of the effectiveness of the instruments of environmental policy. After an inspection of the tool kit, a discussion of advantages and disadvantages of various control models is started. The legal, the economic, the communication and the spatial control model are distinguished. On the basis of this discussion elements of a practical instrumentation theory for environmental policy are introduced. The lessons lea…
Dealing with tensions of multiculturalism: The politics of ritual slaughter in the Netherlands
This article deals with the question how cultural diversity, expressed in a parliamentary debate, can influence the space given to religious minorities to substantiate their identity. The debate about the prohibition of non-stunned ritual slaughter in the Dutch Parliament in 2011/2012 serves as case study. A frame analysis reveals that tensions exist between minority rights and majority values and with regard to the regulation of religion in the …
Partnerships of a feather flock together? An analysis of the emergence of networks of partnerships in the global cocoa sector
In this article, we move away from the case study approach dominant in the literature on partnerships and explore the emergence of networks of partnerships. Taking the global cocoa sector as our research setting, we examine 55 partnerships to analyse the linkages between them, their evolution over time, as well as the simultaneous occurrence of cooperation and competition. We discover that the partnerships are connected to each other through over…
Agro-environmental Policy: Trapped in an Iron Law
Serving a heterogeneous Muslim identity? Private governance arrangements of halal food in the Netherlands
The consumption of halal food may be seen as an expression of the Muslim identity. Within Islam, different interpretations of ‘halal’ exist and the pluralistic Muslim community requests diverse halal standards. Therefore, adaptive governance arrangements are needed in the halal food market. Globalization and industrialization have complicated the governance of halal food. A complex network of halal governors has developed from the local to the gl…
Conversion to Organic Dairy Production in the Netherlands: Opportunities and Constraints
Organic agriculture is perceived as being more sustainable than conventional agriculture. However, while there is a growing interest in, and market for, organic products, large-scale conversion to organic agriculture is not taking place. Even though conversion from conventional to organic dairy production is not especially difficult in theory, conversion is slow in this specific sector. The conversion process to organic agriculture is often analy…
Public perceptions of Bhutan's approach to sustainable development in practice
This paper focuses on the practical approach to sustainable development in Bhutan and specifically on public views on and experiences with the implementation of this strategy. Bhutan's development goal is ‘gross national happiness’. The strategy it has adopted to achieve this goal is known as the ‘middle path strategy’, which essentially addresses four sources (‘pillars’) of gross national happiness: economic development, ecological preservation,…
Certification and Farmer Organisation: Indonesian Smallholder Perceptions of Benefits
Both certification and participation in farmer organizations are associated with economic and social benefits for farmers. However, knowledge about potential differences in perceived benefits resulting from participating in different forms of organization and certification schemes is limited. In this paper, we distinguish three types of farmer organizations in the Indonesian coffee sector: farmer groups, cooperatives and KUBEs. We compare the per…
Assessment of the Potential of Ecolabels to Promote Agrobiodiversity
We conducted a study to assess to what extent current ecolabels contain standards that stimulate conservation and sustainable use of on-farm biodiversity of agricultural landscapes (agrobiodiversity). First, we developed an agrobiodiversity management yardstick to assess and compare the labeling schemes of ecolabels for arable farming. Key characteristics of the yardstick are the five levels linking the abstract notion of agrobiodiversity managem…
The sustainability treaty between the Netherlands and Costa Rica: A new perspective on environmental and development cooperation
In this article, we analyse a new type of bilateral cooperation aimed at promoting sustainable development. The keystone of this new structure is the sustainability treaty that the Netherlands has arranged with Costa Rica (the statement of intent dates from 1992). This treaty was conceived to assist both countries in their efforts to promote sustainable development through specific measures. The basis for the cooperative effort is a platform of e…
New Strategies for Environmental Policy: Regional Network Management in the Netherlands
The influence of populism on tolerance: A thematic content analysis of the Dutch Islam debate
Historically, religious tolerance has been an integral part of Dutch identity. Yet, this image has changed, particularly in the last 20 years due to the influence of populism that predominantly focused on the stigmatisation of Islam. This paper examines how this development has changed the meaning of tolerance in the public debate about Islam and what this change means for the social and political conditions for integration in the Netherlands. An…
Spotlights on certification and farmers' welfare: Crossing Boundaries in Social Scientific Research
Social scientists have the freedom to adopt different methodological approaches when researching development. This article illustrates how four common social scientific methodologies (positivism, social constructivism, action research, and normative political theory) differently conceptualise the effects of sustainability certification on Indonesian smallholder farmers. It shows that each approach results in different insights, offering a web of …
Seven Steps Towards an Instrumentation Theory for Environmental Policy
This article focuses on the questions of the effectiveness of the instruments of environmental policy. After an inspection of the tool kit, a discussion of advantages and disadvantages of various control models is started. The legal, the economic, the communication and the spatial control model are distinguished. On the basis of this discussion elements of a practical instrumentation theory for environmental policy are introduced. The lessons lea…
Agro-environmental Policy: Trapped in an Iron Law
New Strategies for Environmental Policy: Regional Network Management in the Netherlands
Environmental Policy in an International Context: Perspectives
Environmental Policy in an International Context: Prospects for Environmental Change
Co-operative Environmental Governance: Public-Private Agreements As a Policy Strategy
New philosophies of environmental management are being put to the test in many countries. New ideas are needed to replace or at least flank the old command and control approach, which has lost its credibility. One of the most interesting new avenues is co-operative environmental management, whereby public and private parties work together to tackle a problem. It is interesting because it seems to be well suited to handling complex environmental p…
The Social Meaning of Carbon Dioxide Emission Trading Institutional Capacity Building for a Green Market in Costa Rica
The sustainability treaty between the Netherlands and Costa Rica: A new perspective on environmental and development cooperation
In this article, we analyse a new type of bilateral cooperation aimed at promoting sustainable development. The keystone of this new structure is the sustainability treaty that the Netherlands has arranged with Costa Rica (the statement of intent dates from 1992). This treaty was conceived to assist both countries in their efforts to promote sustainable development through specific measures. The basis for the cooperative effort is a platform of e…
Public perceptions of Bhutan's approach to sustainable development in practice
This paper focuses on the practical approach to sustainable development in Bhutan and specifically on public views on and experiences with the implementation of this strategy. Bhutan's development goal is ‘gross national happiness’. The strategy it has adopted to achieve this goal is known as the ‘middle path strategy’, which essentially addresses four sources (‘pillars’) of gross national happiness: economic development, ecological preservation,…
Voluntary Agreements in Watershed Protection Experiences From Costa Rica
Partnerships in forest governance
Assessment of the Potential of Ecolabels to Promote Agrobiodiversity
We conducted a study to assess to what extent current ecolabels contain standards that stimulate conservation and sustainable use of on-farm biodiversity of agricultural landscapes (agrobiodiversity). First, we developed an agrobiodiversity management yardstick to assess and compare the labeling schemes of ecolabels for arable farming. Key characteristics of the yardstick are the five levels linking the abstract notion of agrobiodiversity managem…
City and Environment
This book takes a social-ecological approach to the study of the sustainability of cities. The approach aims to connect the biological and geophysical processes studied by ecologists with knowledge about human behavior as studied by social scientists. The book also aims to help in the search for pathways that can turn cities into ecologically sustainable places. Most of the chapters address cities in the developing and developed world from both a…
Intersectoral partnerships for a sustainable coffee chain: Really addressing sustainability or just picking (coffee) cherries
Global action networks: Agents for collective action
Conversion to Organic Dairy Production in the Netherlands: Opportunities and Constraints
Organic agriculture is perceived as being more sustainable than conventional agriculture. However, while there is a growing interest in, and market for, organic products, large-scale conversion to organic agriculture is not taking place. Even though conversion from conventional to organic dairy production is not especially difficult in theory, conversion is slow in this specific sector. The conversion process to organic agriculture is often analy…
Conservation partnerships and biodiversity governance: Fulfilling governance functions through interaction
Over the last decades, new governance mechanisms such as partnerships have been increasingly accepted as instruments for sustainable development. This article contributes to an improved understanding of the contributions of partnerships, and their interactions with and consequences for intergovernmental regimes. It answers the question to what extent the roles of international intersectoral partnerships in biodiversity governance can be assessed …
Creating legitimacy in global private governance: The case of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Interaction Management by Partnerships: The Case of Biodiversity and Climate Change
This article examines the contributions that partnerships make to interaction management. Our conceptualization of interaction management builds on earlier contributions to the literature on regimes and governance. The article focuses on the interactions among the biodiversity and climate change governance systems, since these systems interact intensively on the issues of biofuels and forests (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degr…
On the deliberative capacity of private multi-stakeholder governance: The Roundtables on Responsible Soy and Sustainable Palm Oil
Playing the politics of scale: Oxfam’s intervention in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Partnerships of a feather flock together? An analysis of the emergence of networks of partnerships in the global cocoa sector
In this article, we move away from the case study approach dominant in the literature on partnerships and explore the emergence of networks of partnerships. Taking the global cocoa sector as our research setting, we examine 55 partnerships to analyse the linkages between them, their evolution over time, as well as the simultaneous occurrence of cooperation and competition. We discover that the partnerships are connected to each other through over…
Business–NGO partnerships in global value chains: Part of the solution or part of the problem of sustainable change
Elaborating global private meta-governance: An inventory in the realm of voluntary sustainability standards
Boundary work in sustainability partnerships: An exploration of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil
Business (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Economics (21 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (18 works) · Corporate governance (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Sustainability (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sustainable development (10 works)