Uta Wehn
Biographic Data
| ID | 6019387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uta Wehn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uta |
| FAMILY NAME | Wehn |
| SIGNATURE | WEHN U |
| AFFILIATIONS | IHE Delft Institute for Water Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1420-9721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Past and present marine citizen science around the globe
The marine environment is facing serious changes. This requires scientific understanding of the ocean’s responses to pressures and management actions to provide the foundation for sustainable development. At the same time, the production of knowledge for a more sustainable world is undergoing rapid change with the uptake of citizen science as means of opening up science. While there is increasing interest in marine citizen science, it is also oft…
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Impact assessment of citizen science
Over the past decade, citizen science has experienced growth and popularity as a scientific practice and as a new form of stakeholder engagement and public participation in science or in the generation of new knowledge. One of the key requirements for realising the potential of citizen science is evidence and demonstration of its impact and value. Yet the actual changes resulting from citizen science interventions are often assumed, ignored or sp…
Notes from the field
Fostering uptake of innovations and solutions for water and climate challenges in Africa
Analysing frugal innovation incubation programmes
Perceived positive impacts of frugal innovation for sustainable global development have triggered a variety of programmes to foster such innovation. To increase the impact of these programmes, it is important to understand how they function. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for the analysis of interventions that foster frugal innovations through incubation. Drawing on relevant theories and concepts in the field of innovation and r…
Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a vision for achieving a sustainable future. Reliable, timely, comprehensive, and consistent data are critical for measuring progress towards, and ultimately achieving, the SDGs. Data from citizen science represent one new source of data that could be used for SDG reporting and monitoring. However, information is still lacking regarding the current and potential contributions of citizen science to t…
Opening the innovation incubation black box
The past years have seen a rising number of initiatives to foster water-related innovations around the world. Many of such initiatives take the incubation approach to support individuals or entities with potential for developing marketable water innovations. Despite the growing research on incubation, the innovation processes of incubatees - which are generally intertwined with the incubation process itself - have arguably received the least atte…
Fostering water innovation in Africa through virtual incubation
In different parts of the world, a variety of initiatives are being implemented to promote water innovation. This paper explores the role of virtual incubators in fostering water-related innovations in Africa, using the case of VIA Water, a Dutch programme that promotes water innovation in African cities. Virtual incubators operate and provide their services primarily online. The results of this study confirm the additionality and disruptive natu…
Introduction to the special issue on a Shared Environmental Information System (Seis) for evidence-based policymaking
Dynamics of water innovation in African cities
The last decades have seen changes in the water innovation landscape in Africa, with many countries introducing innovative approaches to managing water resources and the provision of water services. However, little knowledge exists on how water innovators operate in this changing environment. The objective of this explorative study is to shed light on the dynamics of water innovation in African cities. We draw on the experience of 12 water innova…
Strengthening the knowledge base to face the impacts of climate change on water resources in Africa
While it is increasingly important to strengthen the existing knowledge base in Africa to adequately respond to the rising risks and impacts of climate change on water resources, a significant research gap remains to identify areas and mechanisms to cope with these societal challenges. The aim of the paper is twofold: i) to provide subject-specific insights by analyzing the current knowledge base in Africa given water-related challenges due to cl…
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Incentives and barriers for participation in community-based environmental monitoring and information systems
The reliance of environmental management on comprehensive, high quality, timely and (ideally) affordable data and information has given rise to the need for ‘shared environmental information systems’ (SEIS). Community-based monitoring and information systems or ‘citizen observatories’ are a form of SEIS whereby citizens are involved in new roles such as data collection for environmental monitoring, data and knowledge sharing for joint decision- m…
Closing the Knowledge-Application Gap in Organisations through Incentives
Participation in flood risk management and the potential of citizen observatories
The implementation of the European Flood Directive 2007/60/EC requires the establishment of public participation mechanisms to ensure citizens’ involvement in the flood management cycle. This raises questions on how to achieve this goal and successfully translate the directive into meaningful and effective participation. Innovative means, such as citizen observatories enabled by information and communication technologies, have the potential to pr…
Capacity Development Evaluation
This study reviews the evaluation of capacity development, identifying capacity development (CD) modalities and the schools of evaluation currently in place. The research joins the results agenda debate, arguing that in dealing with CD interventions, pre-defined indicators fail to represent the process and the key elements that take CD recipients toward patterns of change. The study highlights the fact that CD deals with projects that, by their n…
The social innovation potential of ICT-enabled citizen observatories to increase eParticipation in local flood risk management
Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a vision for achieving a sustainable future. Reliable, timely, comprehensive, and consistent data are critical for measuring progress towards, and ultimately achieving, the SDGs. Data from citizen science represent one new source of data that could be used for SDG reporting and monitoring. However, information is still lacking regarding the current and potential contributions of citizen science to t…
Capacity Development Evaluation
This study reviews the evaluation of capacity development, identifying capacity development (CD) modalities and the schools of evaluation currently in place. The research joins the results agenda debate, arguing that in dealing with CD interventions, pre-defined indicators fail to represent the process and the key elements that take CD recipients toward patterns of change. The study highlights the fact that CD deals with projects that, by their n…
Participation in flood risk management and the potential of citizen observatories
The implementation of the European Flood Directive 2007/60/EC requires the establishment of public participation mechanisms to ensure citizens’ involvement in the flood management cycle. This raises questions on how to achieve this goal and successfully translate the directive into meaningful and effective participation. Innovative means, such as citizen observatories enabled by information and communication technologies, have the potential to pr…
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Incentives and barriers for participation in community-based environmental monitoring and information systems
The reliance of environmental management on comprehensive, high quality, timely and (ideally) affordable data and information has given rise to the need for ‘shared environmental information systems’ (SEIS). Community-based monitoring and information systems or ‘citizen observatories’ are a form of SEIS whereby citizens are involved in new roles such as data collection for environmental monitoring, data and knowledge sharing for joint decision- m…
Impact assessment of citizen science
Over the past decade, citizen science has experienced growth and popularity as a scientific practice and as a new form of stakeholder engagement and public participation in science or in the generation of new knowledge. One of the key requirements for realising the potential of citizen science is evidence and demonstration of its impact and value. Yet the actual changes resulting from citizen science interventions are often assumed, ignored or sp…
The social innovation potential of ICT-enabled citizen observatories to increase eParticipation in local flood risk management
Dynamics of water innovation in African cities
The last decades have seen changes in the water innovation landscape in Africa, with many countries introducing innovative approaches to managing water resources and the provision of water services. However, little knowledge exists on how water innovators operate in this changing environment. The objective of this explorative study is to shed light on the dynamics of water innovation in African cities. We draw on the experience of 12 water innova…
Fostering uptake of innovations and solutions for water and climate challenges in Africa
Fostering water innovation in Africa through virtual incubation
In different parts of the world, a variety of initiatives are being implemented to promote water innovation. This paper explores the role of virtual incubators in fostering water-related innovations in Africa, using the case of VIA Water, a Dutch programme that promotes water innovation in African cities. Virtual incubators operate and provide their services primarily online. The results of this study confirm the additionality and disruptive natu…
Notes from the field
Opening the innovation incubation black box
The past years have seen a rising number of initiatives to foster water-related innovations around the world. Many of such initiatives take the incubation approach to support individuals or entities with potential for developing marketable water innovations. Despite the growing research on incubation, the innovation processes of incubatees - which are generally intertwined with the incubation process itself - have arguably received the least atte…
Strengthening the knowledge base to face the impacts of climate change on water resources in Africa
While it is increasingly important to strengthen the existing knowledge base in Africa to adequately respond to the rising risks and impacts of climate change on water resources, a significant research gap remains to identify areas and mechanisms to cope with these societal challenges. The aim of the paper is twofold: i) to provide subject-specific insights by analyzing the current knowledge base in Africa given water-related challenges due to cl…
Participation in flood risk management and the potential of citizen observatories
The implementation of the European Flood Directive 2007/60/EC requires the establishment of public participation mechanisms to ensure citizens’ involvement in the flood management cycle. This raises questions on how to achieve this goal and successfully translate the directive into meaningful and effective participation. Innovative means, such as citizen observatories enabled by information and communication technologies, have the potential to pr…
Capacity Development Evaluation
This study reviews the evaluation of capacity development, identifying capacity development (CD) modalities and the schools of evaluation currently in place. The research joins the results agenda debate, arguing that in dealing with CD interventions, pre-defined indicators fail to represent the process and the key elements that take CD recipients toward patterns of change. The study highlights the fact that CD deals with projects that, by their n…
The social innovation potential of ICT-enabled citizen observatories to increase eParticipation in local flood risk management
Closing the Knowledge-Application Gap in Organisations through Incentives
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Incentives and barriers for participation in community-based environmental monitoring and information systems
The reliance of environmental management on comprehensive, high quality, timely and (ideally) affordable data and information has given rise to the need for ‘shared environmental information systems’ (SEIS). Community-based monitoring and information systems or ‘citizen observatories’ are a form of SEIS whereby citizens are involved in new roles such as data collection for environmental monitoring, data and knowledge sharing for joint decision- m…
Analysing frugal innovation incubation programmes
Perceived positive impacts of frugal innovation for sustainable global development have triggered a variety of programmes to foster such innovation. To increase the impact of these programmes, it is important to understand how they function. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for the analysis of interventions that foster frugal innovations through incubation. Drawing on relevant theories and concepts in the field of innovation and r…
Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a vision for achieving a sustainable future. Reliable, timely, comprehensive, and consistent data are critical for measuring progress towards, and ultimately achieving, the SDGs. Data from citizen science represent one new source of data that could be used for SDG reporting and monitoring. However, information is still lacking regarding the current and potential contributions of citizen science to t…
Opening the innovation incubation black box
The past years have seen a rising number of initiatives to foster water-related innovations around the world. Many of such initiatives take the incubation approach to support individuals or entities with potential for developing marketable water innovations. Despite the growing research on incubation, the innovation processes of incubatees - which are generally intertwined with the incubation process itself - have arguably received the least atte…
Fostering water innovation in Africa through virtual incubation
In different parts of the world, a variety of initiatives are being implemented to promote water innovation. This paper explores the role of virtual incubators in fostering water-related innovations in Africa, using the case of VIA Water, a Dutch programme that promotes water innovation in African cities. Virtual incubators operate and provide their services primarily online. The results of this study confirm the additionality and disruptive natu…
Introduction to the special issue on a Shared Environmental Information System (Seis) for evidence-based policymaking
Dynamics of water innovation in African cities
The last decades have seen changes in the water innovation landscape in Africa, with many countries introducing innovative approaches to managing water resources and the provision of water services. However, little knowledge exists on how water innovators operate in this changing environment. The objective of this explorative study is to shed light on the dynamics of water innovation in African cities. We draw on the experience of 12 water innova…
Strengthening the knowledge base to face the impacts of climate change on water resources in Africa
While it is increasingly important to strengthen the existing knowledge base in Africa to adequately respond to the rising risks and impacts of climate change on water resources, a significant research gap remains to identify areas and mechanisms to cope with these societal challenges. The aim of the paper is twofold: i) to provide subject-specific insights by analyzing the current knowledge base in Africa given water-related challenges due to cl…
Prometheus
Impact assessment of citizen science
Over the past decade, citizen science has experienced growth and popularity as a scientific practice and as a new form of stakeholder engagement and public participation in science or in the generation of new knowledge. One of the key requirements for realising the potential of citizen science is evidence and demonstration of its impact and value. Yet the actual changes resulting from citizen science interventions are often assumed, ignored or sp…
Notes from the field
Fostering uptake of innovations and solutions for water and climate challenges in Africa
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Past and present marine citizen science around the globe
The marine environment is facing serious changes. This requires scientific understanding of the ocean’s responses to pressures and management actions to provide the foundation for sustainable development. At the same time, the production of knowledge for a more sustainable world is undergoing rapid change with the uptake of citizen science as means of opening up science. While there is increasing interest in marine citizen science, it is also oft…
Computer Science (15 works) · Business (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Knowledge management (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Citizen science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Environmental Science (5 works)