• Master of Arts in Regional Planning and Resource Management

• Capacity development
• Adaptive water management
• Integrated Assessment
• Sustainable food systems

Caroline van Bers (Masters degree in Regional Planning and Resource Management) has worked in environmental management with academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations for over two decades. She has worked predominantly with academic institutes managing interdisciplinary, applied research initiatives, and developing education and capacity-building activities in the fields of sustainable development, integrated assessment, water management and food systems.

From 2002 to 2009 she worked with Institute of Environmental Systems Research (USF) at the University of Osnabrück focusing on capacity development and education in the fields of adaptive water management and integrated assessment. She has also coordinated the activities of The Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS) for five years. Prior to this she was project manager with the International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development (ICIS) in Maastricht, and before this, Research Manager for the Sustainable Development Research Institute (SDRI) in Vancouver. She also spent three years with a Canadian consultancy specialising in environmental management and group decision-making.