John Turnpenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 194418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Turnpenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Turnpenny |
| SIGNATURE | TURNPENNY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Unpacking adaptation lock-ins: Explaining the persistence of the adaptation gap
Climate change adaptation is increasingly outpaced by accelerating climate risks, resulting in a persistent and widening adaptation gap. Many current interventions remain incremental and insufficient, failing to address the scale of transformation required. We argue that this shortfall is best understood through the concept of adaptation lock-ins—systemic constraints that both cause and result from maladaptation. These lock-ins generate self-rein…
A critical political analysis of wellbeing support for postgraduate researchers in higher education
While improving wellbeing is a prominent policy goal, political analysis of wellbeing is a vital but to date under-researched sub-field. This article is focused on the politics surrounding concern about the wellbeing of postgraduate researchers (PGRs) at higher education institutions in the UK. There have been several recent policy interventions to support PGR wellbeing within the context of ongoing debate about the status of PGRs, including whet…
Interventions, practices and institutional arrangements for supporting PGR mental health and wellbeing: Reviewing effectiveness and addressing barriers
A significant, if relatively small, body of literature provides a picture of PGR mental health and wellbeing, and key factors influencing this. However, little has been written on interventions, practices and changes to institutional support for PGRs, how these impact on wellbeing, and what factors influence their success. This paper summarises and synthesises research that has evaluated interventions or institutional changes aimed at supporting …
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: The case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)
Energy markets policy in Great Britain has been largely delegated from elected representatives to a market regulator: the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem). Regulatory legitimacy requires due process and appropriate expertise to expose the regulator to democratic influence. As the legitimacy of regulatory participation processes start to be discussed more intensively in the European context, this timely article examines the relationsh…
Embedding ecosystem services ideas into policy processes: An Institutional Analysis
What helps or limits the use of ecosystem services ideas in practice? In this paper we develop and test a new institutionalistbased analytical scheme to explore how ecosystem services as a "new" policy idea might interact with established policy regimes, processes, and norms. The scheme is based on three different decision-making levels: micro, meso, and macro. To test the plausibility of the scheme, it is applied to the case of the UK where a sp…
Mainstreaming the environment through appraisal: Integrative governance or logics of disintegration
In both national and international circles, environmental policy makers are repeatedly faced with the challenges posed by scientific, institutional and administrative fragmentation and complexity. Within this context, appraisal – of policies, programmes and projects – has been repeatedly advocated as a key integration tool that can help policy makers navigate such fragmentation and complexity by better integrating environmental concerns into deci…
The idea(s) of 'valuing nature: Insights from the UK's ecosystem services framework
The variety of ideas about ways nature is ‘valued’ in public policymaking are investigated. A theoretical ideational approach is combined with empirical analysis of the UK’s ecosystem services framework. Several types of ideas are identified, and how they interact is examined: ideas about nature itself; about the role that different research on the value of nature can or should play in decision-making; and about how policy decisions are made. In …
Knowledge Brokerage at the Science-Policy Interface: New perspectives on tools for policy appraisal
Science in Policy Making
Ecological challenges are becoming more and more complex, as are their effects on nature and society and the actions to address them. Calls for a more sustainable development to address these challenges and to mitigate possible negative future impacts are not unproblematic, particularly due to the complexity, uncertainty, and long-term nature of possible consequences (Newig et al. 2008). Knowledge about the various impacts—be they ecological, eco…
The policy-relevancy of impact assessment tools: Evaluating nine years of European research funding
Dismantling by Default? The Indexation of Social Benefits in Four Countries
This chapter focuses on the indexation of social benefits (i.e. adjustments in line with inflation or real wage development) in Denmark, Sweden, the UK, and Germany. It is argued that studying indexation rules is central to a fuller understanding of the changing substantial intensity of welfare benefits. It offers insights into politicians' preferences and their strategies of dismantling in that changing indexation rules is attractive because it …
Lessons from post‐normal science for climate science‐sceptic debates
Climate change is a particularly good example of an issue for which the definition of problems, and attempts to resolve them, contain key roles for scientific research, alongside institutions, ideology, and individual beliefs. This can lead to rich empirical questions as to the relative balance of these influences. However, the most visible discussion about the role of scientific knowledge is often a heated and simplistic debate about the details…
The complexity of evidence for sustainable development policy: Analysing the boundary work of the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee
The relationship between evidence, governance and institutions in the pursuit of sustainable development is notoriously complicated. Studying organisations whose roles include managing boundaries between evidence and policy is one way to better understand this relationship. But in spite of the complexity, such organisations often appear – officially at least – to have rather limited remits, with very sharply drawn boundaries. This paper investiga…
Where Now for Post-Normal Science: A Critical Review of its Development, Definitions, and Uses
‘‘Post-normal science’’ (PNS) has received much attention in recent years, but like many iconic concepts, it has attracted differing conceptualizations, applications, and implications, ranging from being a ‘‘cure-all’’ for democratic deficit to the key to achieving more sustainable futures. This editorial article introduces a Special Issue that takes stock of research on PNS and critically explores how such research may develop. Through reviewing…
Noisy and definitely not normal: Responding to wicked issues in the environment, energy and health
Evidence, politics and power in public policy for the environment
The Policy and Politics of Policy Appraisal: Emerging Trends and New Directions
Over the last 20 years, policy appraisal has emerged as a popular topic for discussion amongst policy-makers and academics alike. Much research effort has been devoted to developing tools and techniques to inform appraisal activities, but there has been, until recently, a distinct paucity of research on what might be termed the 'policy and politics' of policy appraisal. This is surprising, since policy appraisal is undoubtedly an important site o…
Rationalising the Policy Mess? Ex Ante Policy Assessment and the Utilisation of Knowledge in the Policy Process
Procedures for the ex ante assessment of public policies are currently in vogue across the OECD. Their design is typically informed by a rational-instrumental model of problem solving, which assumes that knowledge is collected, evaluated, and then translated straightforwardly into 'better policies'. But this model has been little affected by more than three decades of academic research which has demonstrated that the reality of everyday policy ma…
Will we ever manage to deal with climate change
Facing climate change together, edited by Catherine Gautier and Jean-Louis Fellous, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xv + 257 pp., index, £40 (hardback only), ISBN 978-0-521-89682-5 Cre
The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making: An analysis of three European countries and the European Union
Climate change, human genetics, and post-normality in the UK
Understanding and managing climate change: The UK experience
Climate change has emerged over the last 25 years not just as a physical reality, affecting global and regional climates, but also as a socio-cultural phenomenon - an icon of a globalizing world which is increasingly altering the physical fabric of our planet and at the same time demanding new forms of global governance. The UK, both through its scientific research activity and through its development of climate change policy initiatives, has bee…
The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making: An analysis of three European countries and the European Union
The Policy and Politics of Policy Appraisal: Emerging Trends and New Directions
Over the last 20 years, policy appraisal has emerged as a popular topic for discussion amongst policy-makers and academics alike. Much research effort has been devoted to developing tools and techniques to inform appraisal activities, but there has been, until recently, a distinct paucity of research on what might be termed the 'policy and politics' of policy appraisal. This is surprising, since policy appraisal is undoubtedly an important site o…
Evidence, politics and power in public policy for the environment
Climate change, human genetics, and post-normality in the UK
Rationalising the Policy Mess? Ex Ante Policy Assessment and the Utilisation of Knowledge in the Policy Process
Procedures for the ex ante assessment of public policies are currently in vogue across the OECD. Their design is typically informed by a rational-instrumental model of problem solving, which assumes that knowledge is collected, evaluated, and then translated straightforwardly into 'better policies'. But this model has been little affected by more than three decades of academic research which has demonstrated that the reality of everyday policy ma…
Understanding and managing climate change: The UK experience
Climate change has emerged over the last 25 years not just as a physical reality, affecting global and regional climates, but also as a socio-cultural phenomenon - an icon of a globalizing world which is increasingly altering the physical fabric of our planet and at the same time demanding new forms of global governance. The UK, both through its scientific research activity and through its development of climate change policy initiatives, has bee…
Noisy and definitely not normal: Responding to wicked issues in the environment, energy and health
The complexity of evidence for sustainable development policy: Analysing the boundary work of the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee
The relationship between evidence, governance and institutions in the pursuit of sustainable development is notoriously complicated. Studying organisations whose roles include managing boundaries between evidence and policy is one way to better understand this relationship. But in spite of the complexity, such organisations often appear – officially at least – to have rather limited remits, with very sharply drawn boundaries. This paper investiga…
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: The case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)
Energy markets policy in Great Britain has been largely delegated from elected representatives to a market regulator: the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem). Regulatory legitimacy requires due process and appropriate expertise to expose the regulator to democratic influence. As the legitimacy of regulatory participation processes start to be discussed more intensively in the European context, this timely article examines the relationsh…
The policy-relevancy of impact assessment tools: Evaluating nine years of European research funding
The idea(s) of 'valuing nature: Insights from the UK's ecosystem services framework
The variety of ideas about ways nature is ‘valued’ in public policymaking are investigated. A theoretical ideational approach is combined with empirical analysis of the UK’s ecosystem services framework. Several types of ideas are identified, and how they interact is examined: ideas about nature itself; about the role that different research on the value of nature can or should play in decision-making; and about how policy decisions are made. In …
Mainstreaming the environment through appraisal: Integrative governance or logics of disintegration
In both national and international circles, environmental policy makers are repeatedly faced with the challenges posed by scientific, institutional and administrative fragmentation and complexity. Within this context, appraisal – of policies, programmes and projects – has been repeatedly advocated as a key integration tool that can help policy makers navigate such fragmentation and complexity by better integrating environmental concerns into deci…
Knowledge Brokerage at the Science-Policy Interface: New perspectives on tools for policy appraisal
Lessons from post‐normal science for climate science‐sceptic debates
Climate change is a particularly good example of an issue for which the definition of problems, and attempts to resolve them, contain key roles for scientific research, alongside institutions, ideology, and individual beliefs. This can lead to rich empirical questions as to the relative balance of these influences. However, the most visible discussion about the role of scientific knowledge is often a heated and simplistic debate about the details…
Will we ever manage to deal with climate change
Facing climate change together, edited by Catherine Gautier and Jean-Louis Fellous, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xv + 257 pp., index, £40 (hardback only), ISBN 978-0-521-89682-5 Cre
Understanding and managing climate change: The UK experience
Climate change has emerged over the last 25 years not just as a physical reality, affecting global and regional climates, but also as a socio-cultural phenomenon - an icon of a globalizing world which is increasingly altering the physical fabric of our planet and at the same time demanding new forms of global governance. The UK, both through its scientific research activity and through its development of climate change policy initiatives, has bee…
Climate change, human genetics, and post-normality in the UK
The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making: An analysis of three European countries and the European Union
Noisy and definitely not normal: Responding to wicked issues in the environment, energy and health
Evidence, politics and power in public policy for the environment
The Policy and Politics of Policy Appraisal: Emerging Trends and New Directions
Over the last 20 years, policy appraisal has emerged as a popular topic for discussion amongst policy-makers and academics alike. Much research effort has been devoted to developing tools and techniques to inform appraisal activities, but there has been, until recently, a distinct paucity of research on what might be termed the 'policy and politics' of policy appraisal. This is surprising, since policy appraisal is undoubtedly an important site o…
Rationalising the Policy Mess? Ex Ante Policy Assessment and the Utilisation of Knowledge in the Policy Process
Procedures for the ex ante assessment of public policies are currently in vogue across the OECD. Their design is typically informed by a rational-instrumental model of problem solving, which assumes that knowledge is collected, evaluated, and then translated straightforwardly into 'better policies'. But this model has been little affected by more than three decades of academic research which has demonstrated that the reality of everyday policy ma…
Will we ever manage to deal with climate change
Facing climate change together, edited by Catherine Gautier and Jean-Louis Fellous, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xv + 257 pp., index, £40 (hardback only), ISBN 978-0-521-89682-5 Cre
Where Now for Post-Normal Science: A Critical Review of its Development, Definitions, and Uses
‘‘Post-normal science’’ (PNS) has received much attention in recent years, but like many iconic concepts, it has attracted differing conceptualizations, applications, and implications, ranging from being a ‘‘cure-all’’ for democratic deficit to the key to achieving more sustainable futures. This editorial article introduces a Special Issue that takes stock of research on PNS and critically explores how such research may develop. Through reviewing…
Dismantling by Default? The Indexation of Social Benefits in Four Countries
This chapter focuses on the indexation of social benefits (i.e. adjustments in line with inflation or real wage development) in Denmark, Sweden, the UK, and Germany. It is argued that studying indexation rules is central to a fuller understanding of the changing substantial intensity of welfare benefits. It offers insights into politicians' preferences and their strategies of dismantling in that changing indexation rules is attractive because it …
Lessons from post‐normal science for climate science‐sceptic debates
Climate change is a particularly good example of an issue for which the definition of problems, and attempts to resolve them, contain key roles for scientific research, alongside institutions, ideology, and individual beliefs. This can lead to rich empirical questions as to the relative balance of these influences. However, the most visible discussion about the role of scientific knowledge is often a heated and simplistic debate about the details…
The complexity of evidence for sustainable development policy: Analysing the boundary work of the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee
The relationship between evidence, governance and institutions in the pursuit of sustainable development is notoriously complicated. Studying organisations whose roles include managing boundaries between evidence and policy is one way to better understand this relationship. But in spite of the complexity, such organisations often appear – officially at least – to have rather limited remits, with very sharply drawn boundaries. This paper investiga…
Science in Policy Making
Ecological challenges are becoming more and more complex, as are their effects on nature and society and the actions to address them. Calls for a more sustainable development to address these challenges and to mitigate possible negative future impacts are not unproblematic, particularly due to the complexity, uncertainty, and long-term nature of possible consequences (Newig et al. 2008). Knowledge about the various impacts—be they ecological, eco…
The policy-relevancy of impact assessment tools: Evaluating nine years of European research funding
Knowledge Brokerage at the Science-Policy Interface: New perspectives on tools for policy appraisal
The idea(s) of 'valuing nature: Insights from the UK's ecosystem services framework
The variety of ideas about ways nature is ‘valued’ in public policymaking are investigated. A theoretical ideational approach is combined with empirical analysis of the UK’s ecosystem services framework. Several types of ideas are identified, and how they interact is examined: ideas about nature itself; about the role that different research on the value of nature can or should play in decision-making; and about how policy decisions are made. In …
Mainstreaming the environment through appraisal: Integrative governance or logics of disintegration
In both national and international circles, environmental policy makers are repeatedly faced with the challenges posed by scientific, institutional and administrative fragmentation and complexity. Within this context, appraisal – of policies, programmes and projects – has been repeatedly advocated as a key integration tool that can help policy makers navigate such fragmentation and complexity by better integrating environmental concerns into deci…
Embedding ecosystem services ideas into policy processes: An Institutional Analysis
What helps or limits the use of ecosystem services ideas in practice? In this paper we develop and test a new institutionalistbased analytical scheme to explore how ecosystem services as a "new" policy idea might interact with established policy regimes, processes, and norms. The scheme is based on three different decision-making levels: micro, meso, and macro. To test the plausibility of the scheme, it is applied to the case of the UK where a sp…
Interventions, practices and institutional arrangements for supporting PGR mental health and wellbeing: Reviewing effectiveness and addressing barriers
A significant, if relatively small, body of literature provides a picture of PGR mental health and wellbeing, and key factors influencing this. However, little has been written on interventions, practices and changes to institutional support for PGRs, how these impact on wellbeing, and what factors influence their success. This paper summarises and synthesises research that has evaluated interventions or institutional changes aimed at supporting …
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: The case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)
Energy markets policy in Great Britain has been largely delegated from elected representatives to a market regulator: the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem). Regulatory legitimacy requires due process and appropriate expertise to expose the regulator to democratic influence. As the legitimacy of regulatory participation processes start to be discussed more intensively in the European context, this timely article examines the relationsh…
A critical political analysis of wellbeing support for postgraduate researchers in higher education
While improving wellbeing is a prominent policy goal, political analysis of wellbeing is a vital but to date under-researched sub-field. This article is focused on the politics surrounding concern about the wellbeing of postgraduate researchers (PGRs) at higher education institutions in the UK. There have been several recent policy interventions to support PGR wellbeing within the context of ongoing debate about the status of PGRs, including whet…
Unpacking adaptation lock-ins: Explaining the persistence of the adaptation gap
Climate change adaptation is increasingly outpaced by accelerating climate risks, resulting in a persistent and widening adaptation gap. Many current interventions remain incremental and insufficient, failing to address the scale of transformation required. We argue that this shortfall is best understood through the concept of adaptation lock-ins—systemic constraints that both cause and result from maladaptation. These lock-ins generate self-rein…
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