Mary Greene

Dr. Mary Greene is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. She specializes in the sociology of consumption, environmental governance, and sustainable development. With a Master's from University College London and a PhD in human geography from NUI Galway, her research focuses on interdisciplinary methods to explore how socio-cultural and technological changes influence daily practices like food and mobility. She investigates citizen-consumer roles in sustainable systems, from community initiatives to urban circular economies.

Her education includes a Master's in Environment, Politics, and Society (UCL) and a PhD in Human Geography (NUI Galway). She moved to Wageningen in 2019 from Galway, Ireland.

Research interests include critical geographical and sociological approaches to (un)sustainable consumption, participatory methodologies, and systems of provision. She leads projects on pandemic impacts on consumption practices, gender equity in energy access in the Global South, and sustainability transitions. She sits on editorial boards for Consumption & Society, the European Sociological Association's Consumption Research Group, and SCORAI Europe.

She supervises PhD research on topics like food consumption in Africa, biofuel transitions in China, and community resistance to extractivism in Ireland. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and actionable policy recommendations for equitable sustainability.

Labs/teams: Active in Future Earth's Knowledge-Action Network on Sustainable Production and Consumption. Collaborates across Dutch universities via the Spark Unusual Collaboration Fund for sustainability transition studies.