Wieke Pot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1570201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wieke Pot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wieke |
| FAMILY NAME | Pot |
| SIGNATURE | POT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8925-7539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Land subsidence meanings on the move
Land subsidence policymaking in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is premised upon knowing land subsidence, where the remote sensing technique inSAR is a key source of evidence for decision-making. Yet, before inSAR data becomes relevant for policymakers, its production, interpretation and transformation into policy-relevant insights involves moving and transforming meaning about subsidence between different epistemic communities, including satellite s…
It’s time for long-termism
Democratic governments around the world seem to be stuck in a “tyranny of the present” that is hard to escape, due to short-term pressures like electoral cycles, lobbying powers of vested interests and short-term voters’ preferences. Such pressures impede timely governmental action to address long-term problems, with causes and effects that span across human generations. This article aims to unpack how governments can more adequately address long…
Governing sinking worlds
The neighborhood of Bloemhof in Rotterdam-South is often presented to be sinking because of soil subsidence. The City of Rotterdam makes use of participatory methods to involve a wide range of stakeholders in Bloemhof and to build consensus on how to deal with the subsiding neighborhood. However, what remains unknown is how civil society, civil servants, and subsidence policy programs actually make sense of subsidence. Therefore, we address the q…
Institutions for long-term problems
Climate change requires forward-looking policy responses. Developing such responses can be challenging for governments and, therefore, specific long-term institutions have been proposed for overcoming short-termism. However, the impacts of such institutions have been underexplored. In this paper, we analyze the influence of a long-term institution, the Dutch Delta Programme, on local governments’ decisions. The paper results are based on an analy…
From creeping crisis to policy change
This paper aims to understand the national-level policy change that occurred in Brazilian drought management, whereby the policy shifted from reactive crisis management to a drought preparedness approach. We found that a combination of factors supported the policy change, such as the interplay of multiple drought events in different regions of the country, the length and timing of these events, attention paid to the issue, and the role of policy …
Governing long-term policy problems
Despite the increasing need to address long-term challenges, public sector organizations are incentivized to focus on short-term results. This article uses an ethnographic approach to analyse how members of a regional water authority understand and deal with long-term policy problems as part of their everyday practices. It reveals three specific dilemmas: investing in the realization of objects or objectives, adopting a stable or responsive appro…
Robust governance for the long term and the heat of the moment
Today the world is confronted with dual crises : creeping and acute threats unfolding at the same time —for example, the manifestation of extreme weather events such as drought and flooding and the creeping crisis of climate change. To cope with dual crises, this article develops a novel temporal perspective that offers policy actors a repertoire of interrelated strategies for enhancing the robustness of institutional efforts. The repertoire cons…
What makes decisions about urban water infrastructure forward looking? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of investment decisions in 40 Dutch municipalities
Municipalities worldwide are confronted with the need to take long-term decisions about ageing water infrastructure in the face of unpredictable future developments. Previous studies on long-term decision making have proposed solutions targeted at the domain of either politics or planning. This study combines insights from the domains of policy, politics, and planning by using the Multiple Streams Framework to explain what enables municipalities …
Why more knowledge could thwart democracy
Robust governance for the long term and the heat of the moment
Today the world is confronted with dual crises : creeping and acute threats unfolding at the same time —for example, the manifestation of extreme weather events such as drought and flooding and the creeping crisis of climate change. To cope with dual crises, this article develops a novel temporal perspective that offers policy actors a repertoire of interrelated strategies for enhancing the robustness of institutional efforts. The repertoire cons…
What makes decisions about urban water infrastructure forward looking? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of investment decisions in 40 Dutch municipalities
Municipalities worldwide are confronted with the need to take long-term decisions about ageing water infrastructure in the face of unpredictable future developments. Previous studies on long-term decision making have proposed solutions targeted at the domain of either politics or planning. This study combines insights from the domains of policy, politics, and planning by using the Multiple Streams Framework to explain what enables municipalities …
Why more knowledge could thwart democracy
What makes decisions about urban water infrastructure forward looking? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of investment decisions in 40 Dutch municipalities
Municipalities worldwide are confronted with the need to take long-term decisions about ageing water infrastructure in the face of unpredictable future developments. Previous studies on long-term decision making have proposed solutions targeted at the domain of either politics or planning. This study combines insights from the domains of policy, politics, and planning by using the Multiple Streams Framework to explain what enables municipalities …
Governing long-term policy problems
Despite the increasing need to address long-term challenges, public sector organizations are incentivized to focus on short-term results. This article uses an ethnographic approach to analyse how members of a regional water authority understand and deal with long-term policy problems as part of their everyday practices. It reveals three specific dilemmas: investing in the realization of objects or objectives, adopting a stable or responsive appro…
Robust governance for the long term and the heat of the moment
Today the world is confronted with dual crises : creeping and acute threats unfolding at the same time —for example, the manifestation of extreme weather events such as drought and flooding and the creeping crisis of climate change. To cope with dual crises, this article develops a novel temporal perspective that offers policy actors a repertoire of interrelated strategies for enhancing the robustness of institutional efforts. The repertoire cons…
From creeping crisis to policy change
This paper aims to understand the national-level policy change that occurred in Brazilian drought management, whereby the policy shifted from reactive crisis management to a drought preparedness approach. We found that a combination of factors supported the policy change, such as the interplay of multiple drought events in different regions of the country, the length and timing of these events, attention paid to the issue, and the role of policy …
Institutions for long-term problems
Climate change requires forward-looking policy responses. Developing such responses can be challenging for governments and, therefore, specific long-term institutions have been proposed for overcoming short-termism. However, the impacts of such institutions have been underexplored. In this paper, we analyze the influence of a long-term institution, the Dutch Delta Programme, on local governments’ decisions. The paper results are based on an analy…
Governing sinking worlds
The neighborhood of Bloemhof in Rotterdam-South is often presented to be sinking because of soil subsidence. The City of Rotterdam makes use of participatory methods to involve a wide range of stakeholders in Bloemhof and to build consensus on how to deal with the subsiding neighborhood. However, what remains unknown is how civil society, civil servants, and subsidence policy programs actually make sense of subsidence. Therefore, we address the q…
Land subsidence meanings on the move
Land subsidence policymaking in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is premised upon knowing land subsidence, where the remote sensing technique inSAR is a key source of evidence for decision-making. Yet, before inSAR data becomes relevant for policymakers, its production, interpretation and transformation into policy-relevant insights involves moving and transforming meaning about subsidence between different epistemic communities, including satellite s…
It’s time for long-termism
Democratic governments around the world seem to be stuck in a “tyranny of the present” that is hard to escape, due to short-term pressures like electoral cycles, lobbying powers of vested interests and short-term voters’ preferences. Such pressures impede timely governmental action to address long-term problems, with causes and effects that span across human generations. This article aims to unpack how governments can more adequately address long…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Climate change (2 works)