M Wolsink
Biographic Data
| ID | 5437152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Wolsink |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolsink |
| SIGNATURE | WOLSINK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5058-6906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Conceptualizations of smart grids –anomalous and contradictory expert paradigms in transitions of the electricity system
Smart Grids (SGs) are crucial for the transition of electricity grids towards achieving carbon neutrality. Initially, SGs were conceptualized as transformative technologies that would turn grids into complex resilient systems with high adaptive capacity, integrating renewables and leveraging flexibility in supply, storage, and demand, by integrating electricity supply with ICT. This exploratory Q-study aims to define and classify existing SG conc…
Social acceptance revisited
Recently the field of social acceptance research on energy was mapped by Gaede and Rowlands [1]. Some of their observations are worrying and need reflection. Two essential pivot points have not been recognized, and observed trends in current research practice that must be assessed as highly undesirable are associated with these unnoticed issues. Missing in the analysis is the start of social acceptance research in the 1980-ies, when the focus was…
Social acceptance, lost objects, and obsession with the ‘public’—The pressing need for enhanced conceptual and methodological rigor
The cluster-analysis of literature on social acceptance of energy innovation (Gaede and Rowlands, June 2018) necessitated critical comments (Wolsink, December 2018). Their response to my critique rightly points out that the criticism was not just about their questionable selection of literature, but also concerned established tendencies in the literature. The latter asked for a response in which a deepened and more up-to-date definition of the co…
Sustainable City’ requires ‘recognition’—The example of environmental education under pressure from the compact city
Environmental education excursions and proximity to urban green space – densification in a ‘compact city’
The value of urban green space for environmental education fieldwork is empirically investigated in a study among all secondary schools in Amsterdam. The article describes how the proximity of schools to green spaces emerges as a new factor in the ‘sustainable city’ and the ‘compact city’ debate. For fieldwork excursions proximity to green spaces is crucial for establishing a pattern of outdoor environmental education. Once established, it shapes…
The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart grids
Near-shore wind power—Protected seascapes, environmentalists’ attitudes, and the technocratic planning perspective
Contested environmental policy infrastructure
Wind energy policies in the Netherlands
The research question of this paper is how institutional conditions affected policy and planning processes for wind energy implementation. This is studied from the perspective of building institutional capacity in order to start policy learning. Implementation in the Netherlands has been ponderous, due to an emphasis on centralised policy-making, and an underestimation of issues of spatial and environmental planning and problems of local acceptan…
Invalid theory impedes our understanding
The key thesis in Hubbard's paper ‘Accommodating Otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege’ is that racial dimensions of opposition to asylum seekers centres are part of cultural NIMBYism. This connection of complex issues with an invalid concept obscures our understanding of the role of ‘otherness’ in facility siting discussions. The deconstruction of the contested NIMBY concept is illustrated by a brief review…
River basin approach and integrated water management
Policy Beliefs in Spatial Decisions
In planning the existence of structural differences in policy, beliefs among stakeholders are crucial. This study concludes that the most salient contrasts in beliefs about spatial and environmental planning concern the way the process is managed. Some of those contrasts reflect fundamental assumptions about the possibilities for reaching consensus and the relevance of involvement of actors in the process. The beliefs of the key actors involved i…
Reshaping the Dutch Planning System
The Dutch physical planning system is at a turning point. Recently the government proposed a new institutional framework for spatial planning. At first sight, the intended changes look like an example of improvements resulting from a learning process. However, the main lines of the proposal blatantly deviate from the insights into planning, balanced decisionmaking, and 'governance' that have emerged during the past decade. This is illustrated and…
Waste Sector Structure
This paper examines some major institutional factors determining the possibilities for successful waste reduction policies. In a multiple case study, four geographically defined cases of markets for municipal solid waste are compared on four core elements in the sector structure. It shows that the structure is shaping institutional capacity for achieving waste reduction. This capacity is determined mainly by combined structural elements. Privatis…
Entanglement of Interests and Motives
In Dutch policy documents resistance to planned trajectories and sites for facilities is accounted for in terms of the NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) attitudes held by local residents. Therefore, as a desperate effort to crush the opposition against some major projects, new physical planning legislation is proposed. A new instrument is introduced for the central authorities which drastically limits the influence of the local authorities and the publi…
The social impact of a large wind turbine
Invalid theory impedes our understanding
The key thesis in Hubbard's paper ‘Accommodating Otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege’ is that racial dimensions of opposition to asylum seekers centres are part of cultural NIMBYism. This connection of complex issues with an invalid concept obscures our understanding of the role of ‘otherness’ in facility siting discussions. The deconstruction of the contested NIMBY concept is illustrated by a brief review…
Entanglement of Interests and Motives
In Dutch policy documents resistance to planned trajectories and sites for facilities is accounted for in terms of the NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) attitudes held by local residents. Therefore, as a desperate effort to crush the opposition against some major projects, new physical planning legislation is proposed. A new instrument is introduced for the central authorities which drastically limits the influence of the local authorities and the publi…
River basin approach and integrated water management
Near-shore wind power—Protected seascapes, environmentalists’ attitudes, and the technocratic planning perspective
Contested environmental policy infrastructure
Reshaping the Dutch Planning System
The Dutch physical planning system is at a turning point. Recently the government proposed a new institutional framework for spatial planning. At first sight, the intended changes look like an example of improvements resulting from a learning process. However, the main lines of the proposal blatantly deviate from the insights into planning, balanced decisionmaking, and 'governance' that have emerged during the past decade. This is illustrated and…
Social acceptance, lost objects, and obsession with the ‘public’—The pressing need for enhanced conceptual and methodological rigor
The cluster-analysis of literature on social acceptance of energy innovation (Gaede and Rowlands, June 2018) necessitated critical comments (Wolsink, December 2018). Their response to my critique rightly points out that the criticism was not just about their questionable selection of literature, but also concerned established tendencies in the literature. The latter asked for a response in which a deepened and more up-to-date definition of the co…
Social acceptance revisited
Recently the field of social acceptance research on energy was mapped by Gaede and Rowlands [1]. Some of their observations are worrying and need reflection. Two essential pivot points have not been recognized, and observed trends in current research practice that must be assessed as highly undesirable are associated with these unnoticed issues. Missing in the analysis is the start of social acceptance research in the 1980-ies, when the focus was…
Environmental education excursions and proximity to urban green space – densification in a ‘compact city’
The value of urban green space for environmental education fieldwork is empirically investigated in a study among all secondary schools in Amsterdam. The article describes how the proximity of schools to green spaces emerges as a new factor in the ‘sustainable city’ and the ‘compact city’ debate. For fieldwork excursions proximity to green spaces is crucial for establishing a pattern of outdoor environmental education. Once established, it shapes…
Wind energy policies in the Netherlands
The research question of this paper is how institutional conditions affected policy and planning processes for wind energy implementation. This is studied from the perspective of building institutional capacity in order to start policy learning. Implementation in the Netherlands has been ponderous, due to an emphasis on centralised policy-making, and an underestimation of issues of spatial and environmental planning and problems of local acceptan…
Policy Beliefs in Spatial Decisions
In planning the existence of structural differences in policy, beliefs among stakeholders are crucial. This study concludes that the most salient contrasts in beliefs about spatial and environmental planning concern the way the process is managed. Some of those contrasts reflect fundamental assumptions about the possibilities for reaching consensus and the relevance of involvement of actors in the process. The beliefs of the key actors involved i…
Sustainable City’ requires ‘recognition’—The example of environmental education under pressure from the compact city
Waste Sector Structure
This paper examines some major institutional factors determining the possibilities for successful waste reduction policies. In a multiple case study, four geographically defined cases of markets for municipal solid waste are compared on four core elements in the sector structure. It shows that the structure is shaping institutional capacity for achieving waste reduction. This capacity is determined mainly by combined structural elements. Privatis…
The social impact of a large wind turbine
Conceptualizations of smart grids –anomalous and contradictory expert paradigms in transitions of the electricity system
Smart Grids (SGs) are crucial for the transition of electricity grids towards achieving carbon neutrality. Initially, SGs were conceptualized as transformative technologies that would turn grids into complex resilient systems with high adaptive capacity, integrating renewables and leveraging flexibility in supply, storage, and demand, by integrating electricity supply with ICT. This exploratory Q-study aims to define and classify existing SG conc…
The social impact of a large wind turbine
Entanglement of Interests and Motives
In Dutch policy documents resistance to planned trajectories and sites for facilities is accounted for in terms of the NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) attitudes held by local residents. Therefore, as a desperate effort to crush the opposition against some major projects, new physical planning legislation is proposed. A new instrument is introduced for the central authorities which drastically limits the influence of the local authorities and the publi…
Waste Sector Structure
This paper examines some major institutional factors determining the possibilities for successful waste reduction policies. In a multiple case study, four geographically defined cases of markets for municipal solid waste are compared on four core elements in the sector structure. It shows that the structure is shaping institutional capacity for achieving waste reduction. This capacity is determined mainly by combined structural elements. Privatis…
Reshaping the Dutch Planning System
The Dutch physical planning system is at a turning point. Recently the government proposed a new institutional framework for spatial planning. At first sight, the intended changes look like an example of improvements resulting from a learning process. However, the main lines of the proposal blatantly deviate from the insights into planning, balanced decisionmaking, and 'governance' that have emerged during the past decade. This is illustrated and…
Policy Beliefs in Spatial Decisions
In planning the existence of structural differences in policy, beliefs among stakeholders are crucial. This study concludes that the most salient contrasts in beliefs about spatial and environmental planning concern the way the process is managed. Some of those contrasts reflect fundamental assumptions about the possibilities for reaching consensus and the relevance of involvement of actors in the process. The beliefs of the key actors involved i…
Invalid theory impedes our understanding
The key thesis in Hubbard's paper ‘Accommodating Otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege’ is that racial dimensions of opposition to asylum seekers centres are part of cultural NIMBYism. This connection of complex issues with an invalid concept obscures our understanding of the role of ‘otherness’ in facility siting discussions. The deconstruction of the contested NIMBY concept is illustrated by a brief review…
River basin approach and integrated water management
Wind energy policies in the Netherlands
The research question of this paper is how institutional conditions affected policy and planning processes for wind energy implementation. This is studied from the perspective of building institutional capacity in order to start policy learning. Implementation in the Netherlands has been ponderous, due to an emphasis on centralised policy-making, and an underestimation of issues of spatial and environmental planning and problems of local acceptan…
Near-shore wind power—Protected seascapes, environmentalists’ attitudes, and the technocratic planning perspective
Contested environmental policy infrastructure
The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart grids
Environmental education excursions and proximity to urban green space – densification in a ‘compact city’
The value of urban green space for environmental education fieldwork is empirically investigated in a study among all secondary schools in Amsterdam. The article describes how the proximity of schools to green spaces emerges as a new factor in the ‘sustainable city’ and the ‘compact city’ debate. For fieldwork excursions proximity to green spaces is crucial for establishing a pattern of outdoor environmental education. Once established, it shapes…
Sustainable City’ requires ‘recognition’—The example of environmental education under pressure from the compact city
Social acceptance revisited
Recently the field of social acceptance research on energy was mapped by Gaede and Rowlands [1]. Some of their observations are worrying and need reflection. Two essential pivot points have not been recognized, and observed trends in current research practice that must be assessed as highly undesirable are associated with these unnoticed issues. Missing in the analysis is the start of social acceptance research in the 1980-ies, when the focus was…
Social acceptance, lost objects, and obsession with the ‘public’—The pressing need for enhanced conceptual and methodological rigor
The cluster-analysis of literature on social acceptance of energy innovation (Gaede and Rowlands, June 2018) necessitated critical comments (Wolsink, December 2018). Their response to my critique rightly points out that the criticism was not just about their questionable selection of literature, but also concerned established tendencies in the literature. The latter asked for a response in which a deepened and more up-to-date definition of the co…
Conceptualizations of smart grids –anomalous and contradictory expert paradigms in transitions of the electricity system
Smart Grids (SGs) are crucial for the transition of electricity grids towards achieving carbon neutrality. Initially, SGs were conceptualized as transformative technologies that would turn grids into complex resilient systems with high adaptive capacity, integrating renewables and leveraging flexibility in supply, storage, and demand, by integrating electricity supply with ICT. This exploratory Q-study aims to define and classify existing SG conc…
Political science (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works)