Marja Spierenburg
Hoogleraar Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood / Wetenschappelijk directeur
- Naam
- Prof.dr. M.J. Spierenburg
- Telefoon
- +31 71 527 6699
- m.j.spierenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0128-1900
Marja Spierenburg is Hoogleraar Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood aan de Universiteit Leiden en Research Fellow aan de Stellenbosch Universiteit van Zuid-Afrika. Haar onderzoek richt zich op de rol van de particuliere sector in natuurbehoud en landhervormingen in Zuid- en Oost-Afrika, en de gevolgen voor de toegang tot land en de strategieën voor levensonderhoud van lokale gemeenschappen.
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Hoogleraar Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood / Wetenschappelijk directeur
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Koot S., Anyango-van Zwieten N., Sullivan S., Dressler W., Spierenburg M., Trogisch L., Marijnen E., Fletcher R., Rakhmani I., Abdulwahab A. S., Benjaminsen T. A., Milne S., Svarstad H., Buescher B., Dutta A., Lowe C. & Rai N. D. (2025), Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research, Conservation Biology 39(2): e14454.
- Vos A. de, Quinlan A., Biggs R., Bennett E. M., Martin-Lopez B., Norstrom A. V., Peterson G. D., Schoon M., Allen C. R., Andersson E., Baird J., Balvanera P., Berbes-Blazquez M., Berkes F., Calderon-Contreras R., Carpenter S. R., Castro A. J., Cumming G. S., Falardeau M., Fick W. L., Olke C., Galang E. I. N. E., Gelcich S., Gordon L. J., Grimm N. B., Hamilton J., Hodbod J., Speranza C. I. If ejika, Koch L., Kosanic A., Lembi R., Locatelli B., Malmborg K., Manyani A., Mathisonslee M., Ocampo-Melgar A., Psiuk K., Queiroz C., Riechers M., Schultz L., Selomane O., Sherren K., Spierenburg M., Trimble M., Turkelboom F. & Wallington C. (2025), Welcome home! Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research, Ecology & Society 30(2): 32.
- Sievers E.M., Erisman J.W., Spierenburg M.J. & Oudenhoven A.P.E. van (2025), Planting seeds or cultivating change?: digging into living labs’ contributions to transformative change. SSRN Electronic Journal nr. 5314923. Elsevier. [working paper].
- van de Grift Elisabeth Cuppen Eefje Spierenburg Marja (2025), Navigating access and interests: Dilemmas in research involving energy actors in renewable controversies, Energy Research & Social Science 129: 104379 (104379).
- Spierenburg Marja (2025), Valuing nature. In: Grasseni Cristina, Baehre Erik, Holmes Douglas & Kanters Coco (red.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology. Cheltenham (UK), Northampton, Massachusetts (USA): Edward Elgar. 9-13.
- Sievers Eva, Spierenburg M.J., Jhagroe S.S. & Oudenhoven A.P. E van (2024), Place-based knowledge transfer in a local-to-global and knowledge-to-action context: key steps and facilitative factors, Ecology & Society 29(3): 24 (8).
- Sievers E., Spierenburg M.J., Jhagroe S.S. & Oudenhoven A.P.E. van (2024), Place-based knowledge transfer in a local-to-global and knowledge-to-action context: key steps and facilitative factors, Ecology & Society 29(3): 8.
- Ricketts T Herrero M Smith P Alonso Roldán V Barrios E Dasgupta P DeClerck F Kumar R McFarlane R Paukert C Singh PK Lavorel S Wallet Aboubakrine M Aguiar S Akamani K Benedek Z Campbell D Castro-Díaz R Chaplin-Kramer R Cherubini F Das Neves C De La Cruz P Díaz-José J Duchková H Dunnett S Santos MJ Gupta H Gyawali D Handa C Hill S Hori M Ito A Joshi GR Keune H Khan S Koltz A Kouame AA Kuiken T Kulmala S Lalika M Lee K Llope M Mácová K Melo F Milano FA Minaverry CM Morand S Mustafa M Rafa N Rai KK Reuben R Rosado-May F Samoilys M Sandin L Simatele MD Sivadas D Spierenburg M Tirado MC Twongyirwe R M. Vale M Williams D Xu X van Huysen T (2024), IPBES Nexus Assessment: Chapter 5 – Options for delivering sustainable approaches. Bonn: IPBES.
- McElwee P Sitas N Ley D Glavovic B Herrero M Biber-Freudenberger L Campbell D Cavanagh C Cherubini F Dasgupta P Eriksen S Harrison P Jarvis R Kuiken T Luque S Lynch AJ Mangalagiu D McFarlane R Phang SC Prist PR Rounsevell M Samoilys M Sangha KK Selomane O Sietz D Smith P Spierenburg M Vallet A Williams D Xie L (2024), IPBES Nexus Assessment: Chapter 7 – Summary and synthesis of options, knowledge and technology gaps and capacity development. Bonn: IPBES.
- Biggs R., Reyers B., Blanchard R., Clements H., Cockburn J., Cumming G.S., Cundill G., Vos A. de, Dziba L., Esler K.J., Fabricius C., Hamann M., Henriksson R., Kotschy K., Lindborg R., Luvuno L., Masterson V., Nel J.L., O'Farrell P., Palmer C.G., Pereira L., Pollard S., Preiser R., Roux D.J., Scholes R.J., Selomane O., Shackleton C., Shackleton S., Sitas N., Slingsby J.A., Spierenburg M.J. & Tengo M. (2023), The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice, Ecosystems and People 19(1): .
- Biggs R., Reyers B., Blanchard R., Clements H., Cockburn J., Cumming G.S., Cundill G., Vos A. de, Dziba L., Esler K.J., Fabricius C., Hamann M., Henriksson R., Kotschy K., Lindborg R., Luvuno L., Masterson V., Nel J.L., O'Farrell P., Palmer C.G., Pereira L., Pollard S., Preiser R., Roux D.J., Scholes R.J., Selomane O., Shackleton C., Shackleton S., Sitas N., Slingsby J.A., Spierenburg M.J. & Tengo M. (2023), The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice, Ecosystems and People 19(1): .
- Chambers J.M., Wyborn C., Klenk N.L., Ryan M., Serban A., Bennett N.J., Brennan R., Charli-Joseph L., Fernández-Giménez M.E., Galvin K.A., Goldstein B.E., Haller T., Hill R., Munera C., Nel J.L., Österblom H., Reid R.S., Riechers M., Spierenburg M., Tengö M., Bennett E., Brandeis A., Chatterton P., Cockburn J.J., Cvitanovic C., Dumrongrojwatthana P., Paz Durán A., Gerber J.-D., Green J.M.H., Gruby R., Guerrero A.M., Horcea-Milcu A.I., Montana J., Steyaert P., Zaehringer J.G., Bednarek A.T., Curran K., Fada S.J., Hutton J., Leimona B., Pickering T. & Rondeau R. (2022), Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations, Global Environmental Change 72: 102422.
- Littlejohn A.L., Boy J.D., De Musso F., Grasseni C., Kanters C.L., Luning S.W.J., Meerendonk T. van de, Minter T., Ochigame R.K. & Spierenburg M.J. (2022), Remodeling environments: anthropological perspectives on the limits of computational models. 8th Workshop on Computing within Limits 21 juni 2022 - 22 juni 2022.
- Spierenburg M.J. (2022), Resilience in times of crisis, Nature Sustainability 5: 1003–1004.
- Biggs R., Clements H.S., Cumming G.S., CundillG., Vos Alta de, Hamann M., Luvuno L., Roux D.J., Selomane O., Blanchard R., Cockburn J., Dziba L., Esler K.J., Fabricius C., Henriksson R., Kotschy K., Lindborg R., Masterson V.A., Nel J.L., O’Farrell P., Palmer C.G., Pereira L., Pollard S., Preiser R., Scholes R.J., Shackleton C., Shackleton S., Sitas N., Slingsby J.A., Spierenburg M.J., Tengö M. & Reyers B. (2022), Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society, Ecosystems and People 18(1): 447-468.
- Norstrom A.V., Agarwal B., Balvanera P., Baptiste B., Bennett E.M., Brondizio E., Biggs R., Campbell B., Carpenter S.R., Castilla J.C., Castro A.J., Cramer W., Cumming G.S., Felipe-Lucia M., Fischer J., Folke C., DeFries R., Gelcich S., Groth J., Speranza C.I., Jacobs S., Hofmann J., Hughes T.P., Lam D.P.M., Loos J., Manyani A., Martin-Lopez B., Meacham M., Moersberger H., Nagendra H., Pereira L., Polasky S., Schoon M., Schultz L., Selomane O. & Spierenburg M.J. (2022), The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) : a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus, Ecosystems and People 18(1): 598-608.
- Büscher B., Feola G., Fischer A., Fletcher R., Gerber J.-F., Harcourt W., Koster M., Schneider M., Scholtens J., Spierenburg M.J., Walstra V.R. & Wiskerke H. (2021), Planning for a world beyond COVID-19: five pillars for post-neoliberal development, World Development 140: 105357.
- Chambers J.M., Wyborn C., Ryan M.E., Reid R.S., Riechers M., Serban A., Bennett N.J., Cvitanovic C., Fernandez-Gimenez M.E., Galvin K.A., Goldstein B.E., Klenk N.L., Tengo M., Brennan R., Cockburn J.J., Hill R., Munera C., Nel J.L., Osterblom H., Bednarek A.T., Bennett E.M., Brandeis A., Charli-Joseph L., Chatterton P., Curran K., Dumrongrojwatthana P., Duran A.P., Fada S.J., Gerber J.D., Green J.M.H., Guerrero A.M., Haller T., Horcea-Milcu A.I., Leimona B., Montana J., Rondeau R., Spierenburg M.J., Steyaert P., Zaehringer J.G., Gruby R., Hutton J. & Pickering T. (2021), Six modes of co-production for sustainability, Nature Sustainability 2021(4): 983–996.
- Spierenburg M.J. (2021), Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation. In: Zoomers M., Leung M., Otsuki K. & van Westen G. (red.), Handbook of translocal development and global mobilities. Cheltenham/Northampton: Elgar Publishing. 129-144.
- Norström A.V., Cvitanovic C., Löf M.F., West S., Wyborn C., Balvanera P., Bednarek A.T., Bennett E.M., Biggs R., Bremond A. de, Campbell B.M., Canadell J.G., Carpenter S.R., Folke C., Fulton E.A., Gaffney O., Gelcich S., Jouffray J.B., Leach M., Tissier M. le, Martín-López B., Louder E., Loutre M.F., Meadow A.M., Nagendra H., Payne D., Peterson G.D., Reyers B., Scholes R., Speranza C.I., Spierenburg M., Stafford-Smith M., Tengö M., Hel S. van der, Putten I. van & Österblom H. (2020), Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research, Nature Sustainability 3: 182-190.
- Böhm S., Spierenburg M. & Lang T. (2020), Fruits of our labour: Work and organisation in the global food system, Organization 27(2): 195-212.
- Qi J., Katic P., Mukherji A., Ruhweza A. & Spierenburg M. (2020), Food. Rethinking global security. Earth's Future.
- Spierenburg M.J. (2019), Living on Other People’s Land; Impacts of Farm Conversations to Game Farming on Farm Dwellers’ Abilities to Access Land in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, Society & Natural Resources 33(2): 280-299.
- Gewald J.B., Spierenburg M.J. & Wels H. (red.) (2019), Nature conservation in Southern Africa: morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation?. African dynamics. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
- Research Fellow
- Member of the Science Committee of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Knowledge Action Network
- Member of the Programme Committee
- Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Voorzitter van het Nederlandse Man and Biosphere Comite
- Subject editor
- Series editor of the African Studies Centre - SAVUSA book series