Bas van Vliet is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. His expertise lies in the socio-technical transformation of urban water and energy systems, as well as systems of waste management and circularity. His research and teaching focus on how these dynamics are influenced by, and impact, social practices and the relationships between providers and consumers.
He has published edited volumes on infrastructures of consumption and on sanitation in both the Western and developing worlds, alongside 54 scientific publications covering topics such as drinking water supply, sanitation, waste management, renewable energy, the water-energy-food nexus, and housing retrofit.
Bas has supervised PhD candidates on topics including water, waste, and sanitation (in the Netherlands and East Africa), smart grids, housing retrofit, wind energy, and urban governance. He is currently involved in research projects on circular hospitals, solar parks, energy justice, and WEF nexus governance.
Besides, Bas is coordinator of a BSc Course Global Production-Consumption Systems and the Environment and the MSc course Governance for Climate Resilient Cities (WU), and the courses Metropolitan Challenges and International Study Visit for MSc MADE. During the courses, the students focus on understanding the challenges affecting metropolitan regions worldwide in depth and from different disciplinary perspectives. For second year Made students, Bas is thesis supervisor and Thesis Assessment Committee member, and lecturer in the Professional Profile Course for the domain of policy.
“The biggest challenge for the city of Amsterdam is to develop inclusive strategies to reorganize and retrofit its socio-technical urban systems to cope with Climate Change.”
Bas van Vliet
Associate Professor Environmental Policy
