Arjaan Pellis

Arjaan Pellis is a Lecturer at the Cultural Geography Group and Programme director for the BSc/MSc Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at Wageningen University & Research. His research focuses on conservation tourism practices in African and European destinations, including Namibia, Kenya, Spain, and Portugal. He examines how emerging tensions shape conservation landscapes, tourism dynamics, and socio-political relations. Pellis has authored/co-authored influential works on topics like wolf-human conflicts in Spain and sustainable tourism strategies in national parks. His research emphasizes the socio-political dimensions of conservation, blending environmental policy with cultural geography insights.

Publications span academic journals and books, addressing themes such as rewilding governance, tourism sustainability, and conflict management through a Luhmannian systems theory lens. Pellis is actively involved in interdisciplinary projects, including studies on surf tourism in Indonesia and carbon emissions in the tourism sector.