Anna Wesselink
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 111202 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anna Wesselink |
| PRENOMES | Anna |
| SOBRENOME | Wesselink |
| ASSINATURA | WESSELINK A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1120-3359 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 211 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Earth system governance for transformation towards sustainable deltas
Increased river flows and sea level rise in a changing climate are of great concern in deltas and makes sustainability particularly important for delta societies. This article reviews current approaches to assess delta sustainability, results of these assessments and what they mean for policies regarding deltas. We particularly ask whether deltas need transformations in order for delta living to be feasible in the future. The reviewed literature …
Coping and resilience in riverine Bangladesh
This paper investigates the impacts of two successive years of severe floods on households, their coping strategies and resilience to riverine hazards in northern Bangladesh. Based on focus groups and interviews with the same households after floods in 2016 and 2017, we found a cumulative decline in assets through sale of livestock and borrowing, and almost all households evacuated short term to higher places. Three notable recent ways that vulne…
The politics of adaptive climate management
While excited about the ground‐breaking work coming out of the epistemic community promoting adaptive (climate) management (AM), we worry about its tendency to ignore normative implications originating in the implicit worldviews underlying AM literature. Generally, AM has a “green” ideology and focuses on the bioregion as the only sensible level for analysis and action. This tendency for systemic functionalism of AM‐as‐(green)‐policy‐prescription…
Lost in the problem
[Article in WIREs Clim Change 2013, 4:283–300. doi: 10.1002/wcc.225] The online version has been corrected. We apologize for the errors
Tales of accountability
The hallmark of accountability in a democracy centres on the way the elected parliament holds the executive to account. If the parliament does not perform its oversight role effectively, lower authorities would have fewer incentives to do the same vis-à-vis local executives. In this article we therefore ask whether or not different meanings of accountability can be discerned amongst Tanzanian Members of Parliament (MPs). In our Q-method research …
Evidence and meaning in policy making
In 2011, Sense About Science launched a campaign backed by various celebrities, academics and other public figures entitled Ask for Evidence, 'saying that consumers, voters and patients should demand evidence for scientific and medical claims to counter a tide of misinformation' (Sense About Science, 2011).The campaign website provides examples of people asking for evidence on public claims in such disparate policy areas as video game addiction, …
Comparing the role of boundary organizations in the governance of climate change in three EU member states
Pathways to impact in local government
Accessing water services in Dar es Salaam
Evidence and policy
Lost in the problem
In this article, we explore how climate change science is connected to climate change governance. When formally institutionalized, as in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) or UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ), these sites may be referred to as boundary organizations . These institutions engage not only in the quality assessment of scientific research, but also in the design of innovative policy instruments, or e…
Technical knowledge, discursive spaces and politics at the science–policy interface
Research impacts and impact on research in biodiversity conservation
You gain some funding, you lose some freedom
If Post-Normal Science is the Solution, What is the Problem
Post-normal science (PNS) is presented by its proponents as a new way of doing science that deals with uncertainties, value diversity or antagonism, and high decision stakes and urgency, with the ultimate goal of remedying the pathologies of the global industrial system for which, according to Funtowicz and Ravetz, existing science forms the basis. The authors critically examine whether PNS can fulfill this claim in the light of empirical and the…
Rationales for Public Participation in Environmental Policy and Governance
Participation has become a mantra in environmental governance. However, there are signs that the participatory agenda has started to lose its momentum and justification because of disappointments about actual achievements. Rather than focusing on improving participatory processes or articulating best practices, in this paper we seek to understand the more fundamental reasons why difficulties are encountered. In our interviews with professionals i…
Reframing Floods
The aim of this special volume is to critically examine the various ways in which floods and flood management are framed in current policies, especially the “space for rivers” policies that have been adopted in many countries of Western Europe. The articles in this volume discuss different aspects of this framing, while employing different theoretical frames. Of these, Spiral Dynamics stands out as the most intriguing and least known. The papers …
The emergence of interdisciplinary knowledge in problem‐focused research
In this paper I explore the specific properties associated with the new knowledge produced by inter‐ or transdisciplinary research. Using my analysis of a land use planning study in the Meuse valley in The Netherlands, I argue that the process of knowledge integration requires the exercise of value judgement and that the outcomes are emergent. I also show that the selection of a boundary object as objective facilitates interdisciplinary research …
Dutch Dealings with the Delta
This article shows how Dutch technological culture has historically dealt with and developed around vulnerability with respect to flooding and indicates recent developments in attitude towards the flood threat. The flooding of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina temporarily made the Dutch public worry about the flood defense infrastructure in the Netherlands, exemplified by the Delta Works. Could this happen in the Netherlands? After the…
Flood safety in the Netherlands
Technical knowledge, discursive spaces and politics at the science–policy interface
Evidence and policy
Rationales for Public Participation in Environmental Policy and Governance
Participation has become a mantra in environmental governance. However, there are signs that the participatory agenda has started to lose its momentum and justification because of disappointments about actual achievements. Rather than focusing on improving participatory processes or articulating best practices, in this paper we seek to understand the more fundamental reasons why difficulties are encountered. In our interviews with professionals i…
Lost in the problem
In this article, we explore how climate change science is connected to climate change governance. When formally institutionalized, as in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) or UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ), these sites may be referred to as boundary organizations . These institutions engage not only in the quality assessment of scientific research, but also in the design of innovative policy instruments, or e…
Accessing water services in Dar es Salaam
Evidence and meaning in policy making
In 2011, Sense About Science launched a campaign backed by various celebrities, academics and other public figures entitled Ask for Evidence, 'saying that consumers, voters and patients should demand evidence for scientific and medical claims to counter a tide of misinformation' (Sense About Science, 2011).The campaign website provides examples of people asking for evidence on public claims in such disparate policy areas as video game addiction, …
Comparing the role of boundary organizations in the governance of climate change in three EU member states
You gain some funding, you lose some freedom
Research impacts and impact on research in biodiversity conservation
Pathways to impact in local government
If Post-Normal Science is the Solution, What is the Problem
Post-normal science (PNS) is presented by its proponents as a new way of doing science that deals with uncertainties, value diversity or antagonism, and high decision stakes and urgency, with the ultimate goal of remedying the pathologies of the global industrial system for which, according to Funtowicz and Ravetz, existing science forms the basis. The authors critically examine whether PNS can fulfill this claim in the light of empirical and the…
The politics of adaptive climate management
While excited about the ground‐breaking work coming out of the epistemic community promoting adaptive (climate) management (AM), we worry about its tendency to ignore normative implications originating in the implicit worldviews underlying AM literature. Generally, AM has a “green” ideology and focuses on the bioregion as the only sensible level for analysis and action. This tendency for systemic functionalism of AM‐as‐(green)‐policy‐prescription…
The emergence of interdisciplinary knowledge in problem‐focused research
In this paper I explore the specific properties associated with the new knowledge produced by inter‐ or transdisciplinary research. Using my analysis of a land use planning study in the Meuse valley in The Netherlands, I argue that the process of knowledge integration requires the exercise of value judgement and that the outcomes are emergent. I also show that the selection of a boundary object as objective facilitates interdisciplinary research …
Flood safety in the Netherlands
Coping and resilience in riverine Bangladesh
This paper investigates the impacts of two successive years of severe floods on households, their coping strategies and resilience to riverine hazards in northern Bangladesh. Based on focus groups and interviews with the same households after floods in 2016 and 2017, we found a cumulative decline in assets through sale of livestock and borrowing, and almost all households evacuated short term to higher places. Three notable recent ways that vulne…
Earth system governance for transformation towards sustainable deltas
Increased river flows and sea level rise in a changing climate are of great concern in deltas and makes sustainability particularly important for delta societies. This article reviews current approaches to assess delta sustainability, results of these assessments and what they mean for policies regarding deltas. We particularly ask whether deltas need transformations in order for delta living to be feasible in the future. The reviewed literature …
Lost in the problem
[Article in WIREs Clim Change 2013, 4:283–300. doi: 10.1002/wcc.225] The online version has been corrected. We apologize for the errors
Tales of accountability
The hallmark of accountability in a democracy centres on the way the elected parliament holds the executive to account. If the parliament does not perform its oversight role effectively, lower authorities would have fewer incentives to do the same vis-à-vis local executives. In this article we therefore ask whether or not different meanings of accountability can be discerned amongst Tanzanian Members of Parliament (MPs). In our Q-method research …
Dutch Dealings with the Delta
This article shows how Dutch technological culture has historically dealt with and developed around vulnerability with respect to flooding and indicates recent developments in attitude towards the flood threat. The flooding of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina temporarily made the Dutch public worry about the flood defense infrastructure in the Netherlands, exemplified by the Delta Works. Could this happen in the Netherlands? After the…
Flood safety in the Netherlands
The emergence of interdisciplinary knowledge in problem‐focused research
In this paper I explore the specific properties associated with the new knowledge produced by inter‐ or transdisciplinary research. Using my analysis of a land use planning study in the Meuse valley in The Netherlands, I argue that the process of knowledge integration requires the exercise of value judgement and that the outcomes are emergent. I also show that the selection of a boundary object as objective facilitates interdisciplinary research …
Reframing Floods
The aim of this special volume is to critically examine the various ways in which floods and flood management are framed in current policies, especially the “space for rivers” policies that have been adopted in many countries of Western Europe. The articles in this volume discuss different aspects of this framing, while employing different theoretical frames. Of these, Spiral Dynamics stands out as the most intriguing and least known. The papers …
If Post-Normal Science is the Solution, What is the Problem
Post-normal science (PNS) is presented by its proponents as a new way of doing science that deals with uncertainties, value diversity or antagonism, and high decision stakes and urgency, with the ultimate goal of remedying the pathologies of the global industrial system for which, according to Funtowicz and Ravetz, existing science forms the basis. The authors critically examine whether PNS can fulfill this claim in the light of empirical and the…
Rationales for Public Participation in Environmental Policy and Governance
Participation has become a mantra in environmental governance. However, there are signs that the participatory agenda has started to lose its momentum and justification because of disappointments about actual achievements. Rather than focusing on improving participatory processes or articulating best practices, in this paper we seek to understand the more fundamental reasons why difficulties are encountered. In our interviews with professionals i…
Research impacts and impact on research in biodiversity conservation
You gain some funding, you lose some freedom
Lost in the problem
In this article, we explore how climate change science is connected to climate change governance. When formally institutionalized, as in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) or UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ), these sites may be referred to as boundary organizations . These institutions engage not only in the quality assessment of scientific research, but also in the design of innovative policy instruments, or e…
Technical knowledge, discursive spaces and politics at the science–policy interface
Evidence and meaning in policy making
In 2011, Sense About Science launched a campaign backed by various celebrities, academics and other public figures entitled Ask for Evidence, 'saying that consumers, voters and patients should demand evidence for scientific and medical claims to counter a tide of misinformation' (Sense About Science, 2011).The campaign website provides examples of people asking for evidence on public claims in such disparate policy areas as video game addiction, …
Comparing the role of boundary organizations in the governance of climate change in three EU member states
Pathways to impact in local government
Accessing water services in Dar es Salaam
Evidence and policy
Lost in the problem
[Article in WIREs Clim Change 2013, 4:283–300. doi: 10.1002/wcc.225] The online version has been corrected. We apologize for the errors
Tales of accountability
The hallmark of accountability in a democracy centres on the way the elected parliament holds the executive to account. If the parliament does not perform its oversight role effectively, lower authorities would have fewer incentives to do the same vis-à-vis local executives. In this article we therefore ask whether or not different meanings of accountability can be discerned amongst Tanzanian Members of Parliament (MPs). In our Q-method research …
The politics of adaptive climate management
While excited about the ground‐breaking work coming out of the epistemic community promoting adaptive (climate) management (AM), we worry about its tendency to ignore normative implications originating in the implicit worldviews underlying AM literature. Generally, AM has a “green” ideology and focuses on the bioregion as the only sensible level for analysis and action. This tendency for systemic functionalism of AM‐as‐(green)‐policy‐prescription…
Coping and resilience in riverine Bangladesh
This paper investigates the impacts of two successive years of severe floods on households, their coping strategies and resilience to riverine hazards in northern Bangladesh. Based on focus groups and interviews with the same households after floods in 2016 and 2017, we found a cumulative decline in assets through sale of livestock and borrowing, and almost all households evacuated short term to higher places. Three notable recent ways that vulne…
Earth system governance for transformation towards sustainable deltas
Increased river flows and sea level rise in a changing climate are of great concern in deltas and makes sustainability particularly important for delta societies. This article reviews current approaches to assess delta sustainability, results of these assessments and what they mean for policies regarding deltas. We particularly ask whether deltas need transformations in order for delta living to be feasible in the future. The reviewed literature …
Political science (18 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (10 obras) · Public Administration (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras)