Mendel Giezen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3707592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mendel Giezen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mendel |
| FAMILY NAME | Giezen |
| SIGNATURE | GIEZEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4210-1833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding Conflict in Street Space Transformations: An Analytical Framework
Street space transformations are increasingly being used to reduce car traffic in cities. In these processes, conflict is seen to emerge unpredictably and manifest in various, sometimes unexpected ways. We aim to contribute to the understanding of these conflicts by providing a context-specific framework for analysis, based on the assumption that conflicts over street space are potentially productive and provide learning opportunities. We develop…
More green but less just? Analyzing urban green spaces, participation, and environmental justice in Amsterdam
Cities worldwide are taking action to increase the amount and quality of urban green spaces. However, not all efforts for the greening of cities produce just and inclusive outcomes. For more inclusive urban greening processes, scholars have proposed incentivizing residents’ participation in planning and implementing green initiatives that promote creating and maintaining green spaces. However, further in-depth analysis of the connection between i…
Housing tenure, urban development and environmental inequality
This study investigates the relationship between housing and environmental exposures to understand the structuring role of housing and planning regimes in environmental inequality. Comparing the exposure to air pollutants, noise, greenery, and heat stress for different housing tenures in the Amsterdam region in 2021, our analyses indicate that ownership housing generally has more favourable exposure than the rental. Second, given institutional ch…
Diverse scaling strategies of energy communities: A comparative case study analysis of varied governance contexts
Energy communities equip citizens with democratic control over their energy assets, help them capture value locally and create a green, just and decentralized energy system. Such energy communities have grown, replicated their experiences and have been institutionalized in diverse settings. In short, there are plenty of empirical examples of energy communities that have scaled. In this article we explore how varied governance contexts contribute …
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives
Energy communities have mushroomed over the past decades. These initiatives have scaled, that is replicated their experiences, expanded membership, and diversified involved actors and technologies. The picture existing literature paints is hopeful that the scaling of local-scale action may translate into global-scale impact and thus effectively contribute to combating climate change. However, important gaps remain in understanding the (combinatio…
The paradox of planning the compact and green city: Analyzing land-use change in Amsterdam and Brussels
Strategies applied by urban policy makers in order to achieve sustainable city development may be in conflict with each other because it crosses many disciplines and policy areas. This research focusses on the dilemma between compact city and urban greenspace policies and their influence on actual land-use change in Amsterdam and Brussels. These cases are selected because of their similar urban growth yet diverse policy and governance contexts. W…
Planning for sustainable urban food systems: An analysis of the up-scaling potential of vertical farming
Food production and consumption related environmental challenges have come to the forefront of policy discourse in the past decade. This links primarily to concerns in terms of agriculture fueling climate change, but also in terms of long-term food security and availability for growing populations. A proposed solution to these pressures at the urban scale is Vertical Farming (VF), in the understanding of this article, a high-yield form of control…
Towards a deeper understanding of up-scaling in socio-technical transitions: The case of energy communities
The pressing nature of the climate crisis is placing sub-national action at the forefront of climate mitigation. Energy communities have been an example of such niche action, as, over the past decades, they have blossomed in number and have challenged dominant narratives of the energy transition. The aggregate impact such action promises may be necessary to mitigate the global-scale problem of the climate crisis. This opens up the vexing question…
Responsibility as a field: The circular economy of water, waste, and energy
Responsibilities are a central matter of concern of environmental politics because they underpin regulatory frameworks of utility services. Yet, in scholarship concerned with sustainability transitions and governance, responsibility is reductively understood as a legal obligation or allotted task. Building on an institutionalist perspective, this paper conceptualized responsibility as a field of contention where actors negotiate, contest, and art…
Institutional work in diverse niche contexts: The case of low-carbon housing in the Netherlands
Scaling-up low-carbon urban initiatives: Towards a better understanding
In cities worldwide, low-carbon urban initiatives (LCUIs) are realised by pioneers that prove that climate mitigation strategies can be integrated in urban development trajectories. Practitioners and scholars reflect on the need to scale-up such initiatives in order to accelerate the transition to low-carbon cities. Yet, limited conceptual clarity exists regarding the meaning of the concept of ‘scaling-up’ and the factors driving this process. Th…
Let me tell you your problems”. Using Q methodology to elicit latent problem perceptions about invasive alien species
From a participatory governance perspective, managing changes in ecosystems requires involvement of stakeholders. However, when the impacts of such changes are unclear or unknown, problem perceptions are latent and stakeholders cannot be identified. To elicit perceptions of an ecosystem change despite unknown impacts, we employed Q methodology regarding landscape values. From these perceptions we derived stakeholder stances on the ecosystem chang…
Scaling-up energy conservation initiatives: Barriers and local strategies
The Role of Farm Management Characteristics in Understanding the Spatial Distribution of Landscape Elements: A Case Study in the Netherlands
In Western Europe the fate of biodiversity is intimately linked to agricultural land use. A driving force behind biodiversity decline is the gradual conversion of Europe’s traditional integrated rural landscapes of nature and agriculture into monofunctional units of production. With these developments, semi-natural landscape elements have increasingly disappeared from agricultural landscapes. A growing body of research, however, underlines the im…
Institutional work in diverse niche contexts: The case of low-carbon housing in the Netherlands
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives
Energy communities have mushroomed over the past decades. These initiatives have scaled, that is replicated their experiences, expanded membership, and diversified involved actors and technologies. The picture existing literature paints is hopeful that the scaling of local-scale action may translate into global-scale impact and thus effectively contribute to combating climate change. However, important gaps remain in understanding the (combinatio…
Scaling-up low-carbon urban initiatives: Towards a better understanding
In cities worldwide, low-carbon urban initiatives (LCUIs) are realised by pioneers that prove that climate mitigation strategies can be integrated in urban development trajectories. Practitioners and scholars reflect on the need to scale-up such initiatives in order to accelerate the transition to low-carbon cities. Yet, limited conceptual clarity exists regarding the meaning of the concept of ‘scaling-up’ and the factors driving this process. Th…
Towards a deeper understanding of up-scaling in socio-technical transitions: The case of energy communities
The pressing nature of the climate crisis is placing sub-national action at the forefront of climate mitigation. Energy communities have been an example of such niche action, as, over the past decades, they have blossomed in number and have challenged dominant narratives of the energy transition. The aggregate impact such action promises may be necessary to mitigate the global-scale problem of the climate crisis. This opens up the vexing question…
Let me tell you your problems”. Using Q methodology to elicit latent problem perceptions about invasive alien species
From a participatory governance perspective, managing changes in ecosystems requires involvement of stakeholders. However, when the impacts of such changes are unclear or unknown, problem perceptions are latent and stakeholders cannot be identified. To elicit perceptions of an ecosystem change despite unknown impacts, we employed Q methodology regarding landscape values. From these perceptions we derived stakeholder stances on the ecosystem chang…
Scaling-up energy conservation initiatives: Barriers and local strategies
The Role of Farm Management Characteristics in Understanding the Spatial Distribution of Landscape Elements: A Case Study in the Netherlands
In Western Europe the fate of biodiversity is intimately linked to agricultural land use. A driving force behind biodiversity decline is the gradual conversion of Europe’s traditional integrated rural landscapes of nature and agriculture into monofunctional units of production. With these developments, semi-natural landscape elements have increasingly disappeared from agricultural landscapes. A growing body of research, however, underlines the im…
Scaling-up low-carbon urban initiatives: Towards a better understanding
In cities worldwide, low-carbon urban initiatives (LCUIs) are realised by pioneers that prove that climate mitigation strategies can be integrated in urban development trajectories. Practitioners and scholars reflect on the need to scale-up such initiatives in order to accelerate the transition to low-carbon cities. Yet, limited conceptual clarity exists regarding the meaning of the concept of ‘scaling-up’ and the factors driving this process. Th…
Let me tell you your problems”. Using Q methodology to elicit latent problem perceptions about invasive alien species
From a participatory governance perspective, managing changes in ecosystems requires involvement of stakeholders. However, when the impacts of such changes are unclear or unknown, problem perceptions are latent and stakeholders cannot be identified. To elicit perceptions of an ecosystem change despite unknown impacts, we employed Q methodology regarding landscape values. From these perceptions we derived stakeholder stances on the ecosystem chang…
Responsibility as a field: The circular economy of water, waste, and energy
Responsibilities are a central matter of concern of environmental politics because they underpin regulatory frameworks of utility services. Yet, in scholarship concerned with sustainability transitions and governance, responsibility is reductively understood as a legal obligation or allotted task. Building on an institutionalist perspective, this paper conceptualized responsibility as a field of contention where actors negotiate, contest, and art…
Institutional work in diverse niche contexts: The case of low-carbon housing in the Netherlands
The paradox of planning the compact and green city: Analyzing land-use change in Amsterdam and Brussels
Strategies applied by urban policy makers in order to achieve sustainable city development may be in conflict with each other because it crosses many disciplines and policy areas. This research focusses on the dilemma between compact city and urban greenspace policies and their influence on actual land-use change in Amsterdam and Brussels. These cases are selected because of their similar urban growth yet diverse policy and governance contexts. W…
Planning for sustainable urban food systems: An analysis of the up-scaling potential of vertical farming
Food production and consumption related environmental challenges have come to the forefront of policy discourse in the past decade. This links primarily to concerns in terms of agriculture fueling climate change, but also in terms of long-term food security and availability for growing populations. A proposed solution to these pressures at the urban scale is Vertical Farming (VF), in the understanding of this article, a high-yield form of control…
Towards a deeper understanding of up-scaling in socio-technical transitions: The case of energy communities
The pressing nature of the climate crisis is placing sub-national action at the forefront of climate mitigation. Energy communities have been an example of such niche action, as, over the past decades, they have blossomed in number and have challenged dominant narratives of the energy transition. The aggregate impact such action promises may be necessary to mitigate the global-scale problem of the climate crisis. This opens up the vexing question…
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives
Energy communities have mushroomed over the past decades. These initiatives have scaled, that is replicated their experiences, expanded membership, and diversified involved actors and technologies. The picture existing literature paints is hopeful that the scaling of local-scale action may translate into global-scale impact and thus effectively contribute to combating climate change. However, important gaps remain in understanding the (combinatio…
Diverse scaling strategies of energy communities: A comparative case study analysis of varied governance contexts
Energy communities equip citizens with democratic control over their energy assets, help them capture value locally and create a green, just and decentralized energy system. Such energy communities have grown, replicated their experiences and have been institutionalized in diverse settings. In short, there are plenty of empirical examples of energy communities that have scaled. In this article we explore how varied governance contexts contribute …
Understanding Conflict in Street Space Transformations: An Analytical Framework
Street space transformations are increasingly being used to reduce car traffic in cities. In these processes, conflict is seen to emerge unpredictably and manifest in various, sometimes unexpected ways. We aim to contribute to the understanding of these conflicts by providing a context-specific framework for analysis, based on the assumption that conflicts over street space are potentially productive and provide learning opportunities. We develop…
More green but less just? Analyzing urban green spaces, participation, and environmental justice in Amsterdam
Cities worldwide are taking action to increase the amount and quality of urban green spaces. However, not all efforts for the greening of cities produce just and inclusive outcomes. For more inclusive urban greening processes, scholars have proposed incentivizing residents’ participation in planning and implementing green initiatives that promote creating and maintaining green spaces. However, further in-depth analysis of the connection between i…
Housing tenure, urban development and environmental inequality
This study investigates the relationship between housing and environmental exposures to understand the structuring role of housing and planning regimes in environmental inequality. Comparing the exposure to air pollutants, noise, greenery, and heat stress for different housing tenures in the Amsterdam region in 2021, our analyses indicate that ownership housing generally has more favourable exposure than the rental. Second, given institutional ch…
Geography (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works)