Wageningen Environmental Research
Wageningen Environmental Research is a research institute for the green environment, part of Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The institute was initially called Alterra; in 2016, the present name was adopted.
WENR conducts research for policy, management and design of green spaces on a local, national and international scale. The institute has knowledge and expertise in research areas such as water, soil, climate, landscape, nature, biodiversity, forestry, ecology, the environment, land use, spatial planning, geo-information, remote sensing and recreation.
Wageningen Environmental Research employs a total of over 400 people. The institute was formed in 2000 from a merger between the "Staring Centrum/Winand Staring Centre" and the Institute for Forest and Nature Research. The Foundation for Soil Mapping is one of its predecessors that had previously merged with a number of smaller institutes into the Staring Centre in 1989.