Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

Faculty Member, Rural Change, Environment and Population Studies

Lecturer

About

Bram Büscher is Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. He was the convenor of the Environment and Sustainable Development specialisation from 2009-2011. Focusing on Southern Africa in particular, his current research interests revolve around transfrontier conservation and conservation/development interventions, green neoliberalism/capitalism, (eco)tourism and the political economy of energy. Regarding the latter, Büscher is currently involved in a research project on the politics of energy in Southern Africa through a postdoctoral fellowship with the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was recently awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a research project entitled 'Nature 2.0: the political economy of conservation in online and Southern African environments'.

Büscher earned his PhD (cum laude) and MA in political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam. Before coming to the ISS, he was attached to the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology as a PhD candidate and worked as a project officer at the Centre for International Cooperation of the same university. During his research in South Africa, he was a fellow with the Department of Political Science of the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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