Han van Dijk (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

 
Submitted:  Tues, April 26, 2011
 
 
Dr. J.H.M. van Dijk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden University
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Leiden
The Netherlands

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In September 2004, Dr. van Dijk was appointed Professor of Law and 
Governance in Africa in the Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen 
University.  He is still attached to the African Studies Centre in Leiden 
as an anthropologist specializing in forestry and enviromental issues for 
four days a week.  Since 2007, he also serves as the Scientific Director 
of CERES (Research School for Resource Studies for Development) in 
Utrecht.

Having studied forestry, Dr. van Dijk's research now focuses on political 
decentralization, land tenure, natural resource management and 
farmer-herder strategies in response to climate variability and 
development policy. These topics revolve around the interaction between 
society and the environment and the social and political struggles arising 
out of such interaction.


Selected publications:

"Land Tenure, Territoriality and Ecological Instability: A Sahelian Case 
Study."  In: J. Spiertz and M.J. Wiber (eds.) The Role of Law in 
Natural Resource Management, pp 17-45, Den Haag: VUGA Uitgeverij, 
1996.

Edited with M. de Bruijn
Peuls et Mandingues. Dialectique des constructions identitaires. 
Karthala, Paris, 1997.

Edited with Victor Azarya, Anneke Breedveld & Mirjam de Bruijn
Pastoralists under pressure? Fulbe societies confronting change in 
West Africa.  Leiden, Brill, 1999.