J Grin
Biographic Data
| ID | 34141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Grin |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Grin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7933-2574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Toward an interpretive approach to recognition justice in energy transitions
Over the past decade, energy justice scholarship has expanded substantially, developing frameworks for assessing equity and fairness across energy systems and transitions. Recognition justice has emerged as a core dimension alongside distributional and procedural justice. Yet its empirical operationalization remains underdeveloped, often examined through evaluative, outcome-oriented approaches that obscure the processual and relational dynamics t…
Towards effective and just energy transitions in underprivileged neighbourhoods: A double-eyed and sociotechnical approach
Especially in underprivileged neighbourhoods (UNs), with high renovation urgency and thus opportunities to kick-start the energy transition (ET), residents tend to resist retrofit measures. This is due to general lack of trust in government, housing corporations, and other key players. We contend that a negative spiral of ET effectiveness and justice is rooted in two mismatches, between (i) UN resident needs and everyday practices and customary E…
Cross-sectoral transition work at the heart of the regime: Transforming incumbent systems in utility infrastructure planning in Amsterdam
Sustainability transitions are increasingly addressed by regime actors. • These actors can leverage regime proximity but face significant systemic barriers. • To examine system transformation, we study a cross-sectoral case in Amsterdam. • As transdisciplinary action researchers we engaged in the transformation process. • We identify three strategies for regime-actors in cross-sectoral transition work. Regime actors pursuing sustainability transi…
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition
In a rapidly warming world, the transition to renewable energy faces challenges on many fronts. Sufficiency measures, which focus on reducing overall energy demand, hold great potential to accelerate the energy transition and create truly sustainable societies, yet remain underexplored in policy circles. In our perspective, we emphasize sufficiency as a cornerstone for a successful energy transition and broader societal sustainability. We identif…
Understanding the role of government in sustainability transitions: A conceptual lens to analyse the Dutch gas quake case
How can we understand the role of government in processes of societal transformation, given the complexity of a differentiated polity? Literature shows that a coherent conceptualisation of the role of government in transition processes is lacking. This paper addresses this hiatus by developing an analytical lens drawing on transition studies and governance studies, articulating implications of this combination for agency, power and reflexivity. T…
Prioritization of Covid-19 vaccination. The added value of the “Validate” approach
Fundamentals of Sustainable Development
The impact of development needs to be considered beyond the narrow focus of economic, ecological or social concerns. This new and expanded edition builds upon the first edition’s accessible and comprehensive overview of the challenges linked to striving for a sustainable, holistic approach to development. Providing a multifaceted approach to the subject in order to encompass what is referred to as ‘people, planet and profit’, this second edition …
Enriching the multi-level perspective by better understanding agency and challenges associated with interactions across system boundaries. The case of care farming in the Netherlands: Multifunctional …
Beyond deconstruction. a reconstructive perspective on sustainability transition governance
The politics of sustainability transitions
Sustainability transitions are processes of fundamental social change in response to societal challenges (Grin, Rotmans, & Schot, 2010; Markard, Raven, & Truffer, 2012). They reflect a particular d...
New Practices of Farm-Based Community-Oriented Social Care Services in The Netherlands
Social care services provided by farmers provide a community-based collaboration that can empower people and improve their quality of life. The objective of this study was to increase understanding of the collaboration between care organizations and farmers. The study involves 4 cases, and all stakeholders involved in the collaboration were interviewed using boundary spanning and the quest of innovative practices for legitimacy as sensitizing con…
Multifunctional Agriculture Meets Health Care: Applying the Multi-Level Transition Sciences Perspective to Care Farming in the Netherlands
Care farming is a promising example of multifunctional agriculture: it is an innovation at the crossroads of the agricultural and healthcare sectors. Our objective is to develop a framework for understanding the success of initiatives in this field. We link empirical data with the multi-level perspective from the transition sciences and extend this perspective with insights from the literature on entrepreneurship, alliance management and organisa…
Care Farms in the Netherlands: An Underexplored Example of Multifunctional Agriculture-Toward an Empirically Grounded, Organization-Theory-Based Typology
For agricultural and rural development in Europe, multifunctionality is a leading concept that raises many questions. Care farming is a promising example of multifunctional agriculture that has so far received little attention. An issue that has not been examined thoroughly is the strategic mapping of different care farm organizations in this emerging field. The objective of this article is to develop a typology for care farms in the Netherlands …
Global Threats, Global Changes and Connected Communities in the Global Agrofood System
Strengthening evaluation through interactive problem structuring: A case study of hospital care after attempted suicide
The quality of an evaluation largely depends on the quality of the underlying problem definition and the quality of the problem definition often improves as stakeholder involvement increases. By means of a study on the management of attempted suicides by drug overdose, we explored whether an interactive methodology could be adequate for problem structuring. Despite the fact that a high level of care is often unnecessary, many patients are admitte…
Pollution Through Traffic and Transport: The praxis of cultural pluralism in parliamentarian technology assessment
Transitions to Sustainable Development: New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change, an…
Innovation studies and sustainability transitions: The allure of the multi-level perspective and its challenges
Designing long-term policy: Rethinking transition management
"Doing" Reflexive Modernization in Pig Husbandry: The Hard Work of Changing the Course of a River
The Dutch animal production sector faces significant pressure for change. We discuss a project for the design of a sustainable husbandry system for pigs. Named after the Greek hero Hercules, the project aimed for structural changes in both animal and crop production. However, instead of changing the course of the river, the project ended up merely adapting its flow. The Hercules project ran into difficulties typical for projects aiming at reflexi…
Contextualizing Reflexive Governance: The Politics of Dutch Transitions to Sustainability
How does steering for sustainability work within the world of contemporary politics, where roles are increasingly ambiguous and power dispersed? This paper explores this question empirically by studying the practice of reflexive governance—a mode of steering that encourages actors to scrutinize and reconsider their underlying assumptions, institutional arrangements and practices. The practice of reflexive governance has been conceptualized in var…
Validity and Reliability of Qualitative Data Analysis: Interobserver Agreement in Reconstructing Interpretative Frames
Many authors have discussed criteria for assessing the quality of qualitative studies. However, relatively few have presented the results of using criteria for validity of qualitative studies. We investigated the quality of reconstructing interpretative frames, a method for analyzing interview transcripts. The aim of this method is to describe a person's perspective, distinguishing between perceived problem definitions, proposed solutions, empiri…
Reflexive Modernisation as a Governance Issue, Or: Designing and Shaping Re-structuration
The Interactive State: Democratisation from Above
The work of Robert Putnam has provoked a lively debate on the democratic importance of a robust civil society. Criticism of his work concentrates on the fact that his concept of social capital conceives of the relationship between civil society and government predominantly as a one-way affair – a strong civil society is good for politics. Taking up this line of argument, an appreciation of political factors is promoted to explain varying patterns…
Policy instruments, pratiques réfléchies et apprentissage. Implications pour la gouvernabilité à long terme et la démocratie
Depuis le milieu des années 1980, on assiste à un changement dans les politiques de l'environnement, que l'on peut qualifier désormais de politiques «de deuxième génération». L'article fait l'hypothèse qu'une approche constructiviste rend mieux compte que le modèle de l'acteur rationnel des réponses des groupes cibles aux modèles qu'on leur applique. Il met d'abord l'accent sur la façon dont les individus formalisent leurs actes à partir de cadre…
Designing long-term policy: Rethinking transition management
Beyond deconstruction. a reconstructive perspective on sustainability transition governance
The Interactive State: Democratisation from Above
The work of Robert Putnam has provoked a lively debate on the democratic importance of a robust civil society. Criticism of his work concentrates on the fact that his concept of social capital conceives of the relationship between civil society and government predominantly as a one-way affair – a strong civil society is good for politics. Taking up this line of argument, an appreciation of political factors is promoted to explain varying patterns…
Implementation as communicative action: An interpretive understanding of interactions between policy actors and target groups
Technology Assessment as Learning
This article addresses the question of how policymakers could deliberately influence processes of technology development. Using the development of wind turbines in Denmark as an example, the article describes the frames of meaning guiding the actions of those involved in the three subprocesses of policymaking, the generation of new technologies, and the management of the firms that bring new artifacts to the market. The three types of actors shar…
Care Farms in the Netherlands: An Underexplored Example of Multifunctional Agriculture-Toward an Empirically Grounded, Organization-Theory-Based Typology
For agricultural and rural development in Europe, multifunctionality is a leading concept that raises many questions. Care farming is a promising example of multifunctional agriculture that has so far received little attention. An issue that has not been examined thoroughly is the strategic mapping of different care farm organizations in this emerging field. The objective of this article is to develop a typology for care farms in the Netherlands …
Enriching the multi-level perspective by better understanding agency and challenges associated with interactions across system boundaries. The case of care farming in the Netherlands: Multifunctional …
Multifunctional Agriculture Meets Health Care: Applying the Multi-Level Transition Sciences Perspective to Care Farming in the Netherlands
Care farming is a promising example of multifunctional agriculture: it is an innovation at the crossroads of the agricultural and healthcare sectors. Our objective is to develop a framework for understanding the success of initiatives in this field. We link empirical data with the multi-level perspective from the transition sciences and extend this perspective with insights from the literature on entrepreneurship, alliance management and organisa…
"Doing" Reflexive Modernization in Pig Husbandry: The Hard Work of Changing the Course of a River
The Dutch animal production sector faces significant pressure for change. We discuss a project for the design of a sustainable husbandry system for pigs. Named after the Greek hero Hercules, the project aimed for structural changes in both animal and crop production. However, instead of changing the course of the river, the project ended up merely adapting its flow. The Hercules project ran into difficulties typical for projects aiming at reflexi…
Strengthening evaluation through interactive problem structuring: A case study of hospital care after attempted suicide
The quality of an evaluation largely depends on the quality of the underlying problem definition and the quality of the problem definition often improves as stakeholder involvement increases. By means of a study on the management of attempted suicides by drug overdose, we explored whether an interactive methodology could be adequate for problem structuring. Despite the fact that a high level of care is often unnecessary, many patients are admitte…
Validity and Reliability of Qualitative Data Analysis: Interobserver Agreement in Reconstructing Interpretative Frames
Many authors have discussed criteria for assessing the quality of qualitative studies. However, relatively few have presented the results of using criteria for validity of qualitative studies. We investigated the quality of reconstructing interpretative frames, a method for analyzing interview transcripts. The aim of this method is to describe a person's perspective, distinguishing between perceived problem definitions, proposed solutions, empiri…
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition
In a rapidly warming world, the transition to renewable energy faces challenges on many fronts. Sufficiency measures, which focus on reducing overall energy demand, hold great potential to accelerate the energy transition and create truly sustainable societies, yet remain underexplored in policy circles. In our perspective, we emphasize sufficiency as a cornerstone for a successful energy transition and broader societal sustainability. We identif…
Implementation as communicative action: An interpretive understanding of interactions between policy actors and target groups
Technology Assessment as Learning
This article addresses the question of how policymakers could deliberately influence processes of technology development. Using the development of wind turbines in Denmark as an example, the article describes the frames of meaning guiding the actions of those involved in the three subprocesses of policymaking, the generation of new technologies, and the management of the firms that bring new artifacts to the market. The three types of actors shar…
Toward a new conception of policy discourse
Policy instruments, pratiques réfléchies et apprentissage. Implications pour la gouvernabilité à long terme et la démocratie
Depuis le milieu des années 1980, on assiste à un changement dans les politiques de l'environnement, que l'on peut qualifier désormais de politiques «de deuxième génération». L'article fait l'hypothèse qu'une approche constructiviste rend mieux compte que le modèle de l'acteur rationnel des réponses des groupes cibles aux modèles qu'on leur applique. Il met d'abord l'accent sur la façon dont les individus formalisent leurs actes à partir de cadre…
The Interactive State: Democratisation from Above
The work of Robert Putnam has provoked a lively debate on the democratic importance of a robust civil society. Criticism of his work concentrates on the fact that his concept of social capital conceives of the relationship between civil society and government predominantly as a one-way affair – a strong civil society is good for politics. Taking up this line of argument, an appreciation of political factors is promoted to explain varying patterns…
Reflexive Modernisation as a Governance Issue, Or: Designing and Shaping Re-structuration
Contextualizing Reflexive Governance: The Politics of Dutch Transitions to Sustainability
How does steering for sustainability work within the world of contemporary politics, where roles are increasingly ambiguous and power dispersed? This paper explores this question empirically by studying the practice of reflexive governance—a mode of steering that encourages actors to scrutinize and reconsider their underlying assumptions, institutional arrangements and practices. The practice of reflexive governance has been conceptualized in var…
Validity and Reliability of Qualitative Data Analysis: Interobserver Agreement in Reconstructing Interpretative Frames
Many authors have discussed criteria for assessing the quality of qualitative studies. However, relatively few have presented the results of using criteria for validity of qualitative studies. We investigated the quality of reconstructing interpretative frames, a method for analyzing interview transcripts. The aim of this method is to describe a person's perspective, distinguishing between perceived problem definitions, proposed solutions, empiri…
"Doing" Reflexive Modernization in Pig Husbandry: The Hard Work of Changing the Course of a River
The Dutch animal production sector faces significant pressure for change. We discuss a project for the design of a sustainable husbandry system for pigs. Named after the Greek hero Hercules, the project aimed for structural changes in both animal and crop production. However, instead of changing the course of the river, the project ended up merely adapting its flow. The Hercules project ran into difficulties typical for projects aiming at reflexi…
Designing long-term policy: Rethinking transition management
Pollution Through Traffic and Transport: The praxis of cultural pluralism in parliamentarian technology assessment
Transitions to Sustainable Development: New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change, an…
Innovation studies and sustainability transitions: The allure of the multi-level perspective and its challenges
Global Threats, Global Changes and Connected Communities in the Global Agrofood System
Strengthening evaluation through interactive problem structuring: A case study of hospital care after attempted suicide
The quality of an evaluation largely depends on the quality of the underlying problem definition and the quality of the problem definition often improves as stakeholder involvement increases. By means of a study on the management of attempted suicides by drug overdose, we explored whether an interactive methodology could be adequate for problem structuring. Despite the fact that a high level of care is often unnecessary, many patients are admitte…
Care Farms in the Netherlands: An Underexplored Example of Multifunctional Agriculture-Toward an Empirically Grounded, Organization-Theory-Based Typology
For agricultural and rural development in Europe, multifunctionality is a leading concept that raises many questions. Care farming is a promising example of multifunctional agriculture that has so far received little attention. An issue that has not been examined thoroughly is the strategic mapping of different care farm organizations in this emerging field. The objective of this article is to develop a typology for care farms in the Netherlands …
Multifunctional Agriculture Meets Health Care: Applying the Multi-Level Transition Sciences Perspective to Care Farming in the Netherlands
Care farming is a promising example of multifunctional agriculture: it is an innovation at the crossroads of the agricultural and healthcare sectors. Our objective is to develop a framework for understanding the success of initiatives in this field. We link empirical data with the multi-level perspective from the transition sciences and extend this perspective with insights from the literature on entrepreneurship, alliance management and organisa…
New Practices of Farm-Based Community-Oriented Social Care Services in The Netherlands
Social care services provided by farmers provide a community-based collaboration that can empower people and improve their quality of life. The objective of this study was to increase understanding of the collaboration between care organizations and farmers. The study involves 4 cases, and all stakeholders involved in the collaboration were interviewed using boundary spanning and the quest of innovative practices for legitimacy as sensitizing con…
The politics of sustainability transitions
Sustainability transitions are processes of fundamental social change in response to societal challenges (Grin, Rotmans, & Schot, 2010; Markard, Raven, & Truffer, 2012). They reflect a particular d...
Fundamentals of Sustainable Development
The impact of development needs to be considered beyond the narrow focus of economic, ecological or social concerns. This new and expanded edition builds upon the first edition’s accessible and comprehensive overview of the challenges linked to striving for a sustainable, holistic approach to development. Providing a multifaceted approach to the subject in order to encompass what is referred to as ‘people, planet and profit’, this second edition …
Enriching the multi-level perspective by better understanding agency and challenges associated with interactions across system boundaries. The case of care farming in the Netherlands: Multifunctional …
Beyond deconstruction. a reconstructive perspective on sustainability transition governance
Prioritization of Covid-19 vaccination. The added value of the “Validate” approach
Understanding the role of government in sustainability transitions: A conceptual lens to analyse the Dutch gas quake case
How can we understand the role of government in processes of societal transformation, given the complexity of a differentiated polity? Literature shows that a coherent conceptualisation of the role of government in transition processes is lacking. This paper addresses this hiatus by developing an analytical lens drawing on transition studies and governance studies, articulating implications of this combination for agency, power and reflexivity. T…
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition
In a rapidly warming world, the transition to renewable energy faces challenges on many fronts. Sufficiency measures, which focus on reducing overall energy demand, hold great potential to accelerate the energy transition and create truly sustainable societies, yet remain underexplored in policy circles. In our perspective, we emphasize sufficiency as a cornerstone for a successful energy transition and broader societal sustainability. We identif…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works)