Cjam Termeer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4145227 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cjam Termeer |
| PRENOMES | Cjam |
| SOBRENOME | Termeer |
| ASSINATURA | TERMEER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7396-1476 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 262 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Uneven recognition
The struggle for customary land rights in Indonesia gained prominence following the collapse of Suharto’s authoritarian regime in 1998 and the country’s subsequent transition to democracy and decentralization. While these changes seized new political space to (re)claim rights over land previously appropriated by public authorities and companies, the realization of these rights has remained limited in practice. This study examines why recognition …
Why Democratization and Decentralization in Indonesia Have Mixed Results on the Ground
Indonesia has been subject to democratization and decentralization since Suharto's resignation in 1998. Whilst these two institutional reforms have attracted the attention of many scholars, no one has provided an overview explaining their mixed results. To address this gap, we conduct a systematic review of democratization and decentralization literature in Indonesia, exploring how democratization and decentralization relate and identifying moder…
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition
Across the world, including in the Netherlands, a transition is unfolding towards sustainable and just food systems. Despite this directionality, the risk remains that the transition process reproduces existing injustices and/or creates new ones. In transitions, perceptions of justice play a critical role as perceived injustices can create disengagement or protest, whereas perceived justice can increase people's willingness to make changes or car…
Co-designing interventions with on-going circular initiatives to accelerate transformative change
Achieving a circular bioeconomy requires transformative change. Circular initiatives have emerged as frontrunners by demonstrating alternatives through which they generate new knowledge and avenues for transformative change. This paper explores how researchers can accelerate initiative’s contribution to transformative change by applying transdisciplinary action research. We analysed five interventions, collaboratively designed and implemented by …
Between theory and action
Operationalizing transformative adaptation demands a multidimensional perspective. • These dimensions are depth, scope, scale, pace, social and ecological vulnerability. • No single adaptation case excels in all dimensions of transformative adaptation. • Trade-offs can be identified between the six dimensions. • Governance arrangements should facilitate the continuous potential for transformation. Globally, researchers and policymakers are callin…
How does the professionalisation of farmer collectives enable effective agri-environmental schemes? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of 36 Dutch farmer collectives
Agriculture is the main land use and one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. In particular, intensive farming practices have contributed to biodiversity loss, which is why many governments have implemented agri-environmental schemes (AES). Farmer collaboration at landscape level is important to achieve effective AES. The Dutch government opted for such an approach and decided that only farmer collectives were entitled to take part in AES. I…
Easier said than defined? Conceptualising justice in food system transitions
The transition towards sustainable and just food systems is ongoing, illustrated by an increasing number of initiatives that try to address unsustainable practices and social injustices. Insights are needed into what a just transition entails in order to critically engage with plural and potentially conflicting justice conceptualisations. Researchers play an active role in food system transitions, but it is unclear which conceptualisations and pr…
Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives
Policymakers and scientists regard emerging circular initiatives as levers for transformations towards more sustainable food systems. However, it remains unclear how to determine the extent to which circular initiatives have transformative potential. That is, can these initiatives foster a transformation as a result of how they currently bring circularity into practice? In the transformation literature, the characteristics of transformative initi…
Seeing the Visual
Visualizations are important for policy debates. In a single image, visuals convey information, values, and emotions. Think of the shocking image of Alan Kurdi's drowning and the abrupt shift in immigration policy debates in Europe. Visualizations influence policy and politics, but how? This article presents a detailed and analytic overview of the state-of-the-art research on visualizations from the policy and political sciences and suggests a re…
Governing long-term policy problems
Despite the increasing need to address long-term challenges, public sector organizations are incentivized to focus on short-term results. This article uses an ethnographic approach to analyse how members of a regional water authority understand and deal with long-term policy problems as part of their everyday practices. It reveals three specific dilemmas: investing in the realization of objects or objectives, adopting a stable or responsive appro…
Energizing a transformation to a circular bioeconomy
Transformative change is necessary to reach a circular bioeconomy. In this context, a variety of societal and business initiatives have emerged, which in their everyday practices aim to increase their circular impact. These emerging circular initiatives, so-called small wins, continuously spread, deepen and broaden and as such contribute to transformative change. A small win spreads by becoming larger and more numerous, deepens by becoming more r…
Between zero-deforestation and zero-tolerance from the state
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition
The transition towards a circular bioeconomy (CBE) in the European Union is not without contestation. In particular, research has highlighted potential trade-offs of the large-scale production of bio-resources, for instance with environmental quality goals. To date, however, it remains underexplored in the CBE literature how controversies develop throughout a transition process. To address this gap, this paper explores where controversies are sit…
The framing of malnutrition by parliamentarians in Uganda
The quest for political commitment to reducing malnutrition in sub-Sahara Africa draws attention to the role of national parliamentarians. Whereas parliamentarians have the authority to ratify legislation, monitor policies and budgets and transform behaviour, to date little is known about how malnutrition is understood and debated in sub-Saharan African political arenas. This study addresses that gap by exploring how (mal)nutrition has been frame…
Power-sensitive design principles’ for climate change adaptation policy-making in South Asia
Despite the proliferation of power approaches to study climate change, there is little focus on how to deal with the negative effects of power in climate change adaptation (CCA) policy-making. CCA literature provides little insight into understandings of manifestations of power that can create negative effects, especially in the context of South Asia. This review answers the question: How can CCA policy actors deal with the negative effects of po…
From government to governance…to meta-governance
Identity Conflict? Agri-Environmental Collectives as Self-Governing Groups of Farmers or as Boundary Organisations
Organisations of land managers in landscape management face the challenge of combining the need to foster bonding social capital within their member groups with the need to develop bridging social capital with other stakeholders and linking social capital with public authorities. This paper compares the concepts of self-governing groups, boundary organisations and quangos, to analyse how agri-environmental collectives in the Netherlands navigate …
A mechanisms-based explanation of nutrition policy (dis)integration processes in Uganda
Many African governments have recently invested in strengthened nutrition policy integration to address malnutrition; as a step towards realising the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 2. Previous studies have identified various factors that enable or constrain how nutrition integration occurs across policy sectors. However, the explanatory value of these studies has remained relatively limited, as the causal processes through which inde…
A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems
Agricultural systems in Europe face accumulating economic, ecological and societal challenges, raising concerns about their resilience to shocks and stresses. These resilience issues need to be addressed with a focus on the regional context in which farming systems operate because farms, farmers' organizations, service suppliers and supply chain actors are embedded in local environments and functions of agriculture . We define resilience of a far…
A critical assessment of the wicked problem concept
The concept of wicked problems has served as an inspiration for research in a variety of research fields but has also contributed to conceptual confusion through the various ways in which it has been defined and used. In this special issue, a number of ontological, theoretical and methodological issues are discussed. First, while its use as a buzzword has undermined precise conceptual definition, recent work goes beyond the wicked versus tame dic…
Institutions and the resilience of biobased production systems
Termeer, C. J. A. M., P. H. Feindt, T. Karpouzoglou, K. J. Poppe, G. J. Hofstede, K. Kramer, L. Ge, E. Mathijs, and M. P. M. Meuwissen. 2019. Institutions and the resilience of biobased production systems: the historical case of livestock intensification in the Netherlands. Ecology and Society 24(4):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11206-240415
Identifying barriers and levers of biodiversity mainstreaming in four cases of transnational governance of land and water
Mainstreaming biodiversity into the governance of economic sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries is required to reverse biodiversity loss and achieve globally adopted conservation targets. Governments have recognized this but little progress has been made. This paper addresses the following research question: What are the barriers and levers for mainstreaming biodiversity into economic sectors that exert high pressure on biodiversit…
A small wins framework to overcome the evaluation paradox of governing wicked problems
The evaluation of policy strategies to tackle wicked policy problems inevitably involves a paradox of trying to judge solutions for problems that have no solutions and for which additional efforts might increase the chances of finding better responses. This paper analyzes how the concept of small wins can contribute to evaluating progress in wicked problem areas in a way that energizes a variety of stakeholders instead of paralyzing them and embr…
Social media hypes about agro-food issues
The disciplining of illegal palm oil plantations in Sumatra
The Indonesian state has issued many regulations to control palm oil expansion, but they have been weakly enforced, resulting in widespread illegal plantations. During the last decade, Indonesian authorities have used force to reduce illegal plantations. This article analyses the drivers behind these actions and questions to what extent they reflect the rise of eco-authoritarianism. By investigating six cases of disciplinary action in Sumatra, we…
A small wins framework to overcome the evaluation paradox of governing wicked problems
The evaluation of policy strategies to tackle wicked policy problems inevitably involves a paradox of trying to judge solutions for problems that have no solutions and for which additional efforts might increase the chances of finding better responses. This paper analyzes how the concept of small wins can contribute to evaluating progress in wicked problem areas in a way that energizes a variety of stakeholders instead of paralyzing them and embr…
Disentangling the consensus frame of food security
A critical assessment of the wicked problem concept
The concept of wicked problems has served as an inspiration for research in a variety of research fields but has also contributed to conceptual confusion through the various ways in which it has been defined and used. In this special issue, a number of ontological, theoretical and methodological issues are discussed. First, while its use as a buzzword has undermined precise conceptual definition, recent work goes beyond the wicked versus tame dic…
Governance Capabilities for Dealing Wisely With Wicked Problems
This article explores an integrative approach for dealing with wicked problems. Wicked problems not only require alternative action strategies but also alternative ways of observing and enabling. Four governance capabilities are essential: (a) reflexivity, or the capability to deal with multiple frames; (b) resilience, or the capability to adjust actions to uncertain changes; (c) responsiveness, or the capability to respond to changing agendas an…
Rethinking barriers to adaptation
Disentangling Scale Approaches in Governance Research
Termeer, C. J. A. M., A. Dewulf, and M. van Lieshout. 2010. Disentangling scale approaches in governance research: comparing monocentric, multilevel, and adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 15(4): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03798-150429
Changing climate, changing frames
Identity Conflict? Agri-Environmental Collectives as Self-Governing Groups of Farmers or as Boundary Organisations
Organisations of land managers in landscape management face the challenge of combining the need to foster bonding social capital within their member groups with the need to develop bridging social capital with other stakeholders and linking social capital with public authorities. This paper compares the concepts of self-governing groups, boundary organisations and quangos, to analyse how agri-environmental collectives in the Netherlands navigate …
The European Commission's ability to deal with wicked problems
The European Commission's ability to cope with wicked problems is generally viewed as inadequate because of its hierarchical and inflexible modus operandi. Recent research suggests, however, that the Commission may be better equipped to deal with wicked problems than is commonly assumed. To elucidate these contradictory viewpoints, we analysed conditions that enable or constrain the Commission in dealing with wicked problems. To do so, we applied…
Identifying barriers and levers of biodiversity mainstreaming in four cases of transnational governance of land and water
Mainstreaming biodiversity into the governance of economic sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries is required to reverse biodiversity loss and achieve globally adopted conservation targets. Governments have recognized this but little progress has been made. This paper addresses the following research question: What are the barriers and levers for mainstreaming biodiversity into economic sectors that exert high pressure on biodiversit…
Social media hypes about agro-food issues
Governing the Palm-Oil Sector through Finance
By analysing the different roles of the Indonesian state in arranging finance schemes for palm-oil development since 1945, this article aims to answer two questions: What are these roles? And to what extent have they prioritised or balanced economic growth, social equity, and environmental protection? We conclude that the state has never been absent from the palm-oil industry but has had different and changing financing roles that are historicall…
Easier said than defined? Conceptualising justice in food system transitions
The transition towards sustainable and just food systems is ongoing, illustrated by an increasing number of initiatives that try to address unsustainable practices and social injustices. Insights are needed into what a just transition entails in order to critically engage with plural and potentially conflicting justice conceptualisations. Researchers play an active role in food system transitions, but it is unclear which conceptualisations and pr…
Informational governance – A systematic literature review of governance for sustainability in the Information Age
A mechanisms-based explanation of nutrition policy (dis)integration processes in Uganda
Many African governments have recently invested in strengthened nutrition policy integration to address malnutrition; as a step towards realising the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 2. Previous studies have identified various factors that enable or constrain how nutrition integration occurs across policy sectors. However, the explanatory value of these studies has remained relatively limited, as the causal processes through which inde…
ICT-enabled boundary spanning arrangements in collaborative sustainability governance
Between theory and action
Operationalizing transformative adaptation demands a multidimensional perspective. • These dimensions are depth, scope, scale, pace, social and ecological vulnerability. • No single adaptation case excels in all dimensions of transformative adaptation. • Trade-offs can be identified between the six dimensions. • Governance arrangements should facilitate the continuous potential for transformation. Globally, researchers and policymakers are callin…
Energizing a transformation to a circular bioeconomy
Transformative change is necessary to reach a circular bioeconomy. In this context, a variety of societal and business initiatives have emerged, which in their everyday practices aim to increase their circular impact. These emerging circular initiatives, so-called small wins, continuously spread, deepen and broaden and as such contribute to transformative change. A small win spreads by becoming larger and more numerous, deepens by becoming more r…
Introduction article
Social media as a new playing field for the governance of agro-food sustainability
Changing closed agricultural policy communities
Agricultural policy networks have served as classic examples of closed policy communities facing pressure to open up. However, attempts to change them are slowly moving forward. The dialogues on Common Agricultural Policy reforms in which the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture is engaged with a range of interested parties mark a new departure. This article analyses these debates in order to understand why opening up closed agricultural communities is …
Institutions for Adaptation to Climate Change
In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, societies worldwide have to cope with the potential impacts of climate change. The central question of this paper is to what extent our historically grown institutions enable actors to cope with the new challenges of climate adaptation. We present six qualities of governance institutions that are crucial to allow for, and encourage adaptation, and apply them to the National Adaptation Strategies o…
Between zero-deforestation and zero-tolerance from the state
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition
The transition towards a circular bioeconomy (CBE) in the European Union is not without contestation. In particular, research has highlighted potential trade-offs of the large-scale production of bio-resources, for instance with environmental quality goals. To date, however, it remains underexplored in the CBE literature how controversies develop throughout a transition process. To address this gap, this paper explores where controversies are sit…
Power-sensitive design principles’ for climate change adaptation policy-making in South Asia
Despite the proliferation of power approaches to study climate change, there is little focus on how to deal with the negative effects of power in climate change adaptation (CCA) policy-making. CCA literature provides little insight into understandings of manifestations of power that can create negative effects, especially in the context of South Asia. This review answers the question: How can CCA policy actors deal with the negative effects of po…
Autopoiesis and Configuration Theory
Why more knowledge could thwart democracy
Disentangling Scale Approaches in Governance Research
Termeer, C. J. A. M., A. Dewulf, and M. van Lieshout. 2010. Disentangling scale approaches in governance research: comparing monocentric, multilevel, and adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 15(4): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03798-150429
Changing closed agricultural policy communities
Agricultural policy networks have served as classic examples of closed policy communities facing pressure to open up. However, attempts to change them are slowly moving forward. The dialogues on Common Agricultural Policy reforms in which the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture is engaged with a range of interested parties mark a new departure. This article analyses these debates in order to understand why opening up closed agricultural communities is …
Institutions for Adaptation to Climate Change
In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, societies worldwide have to cope with the potential impacts of climate change. The central question of this paper is to what extent our historically grown institutions enable actors to cope with the new challenges of climate adaptation. We present six qualities of governance institutions that are crucial to allow for, and encourage adaptation, and apply them to the National Adaptation Strategies o…
Changing climate, changing frames
On the nature of barriers to climate change adaptation
The role of knowledge and power in climate change adaptation governance
Vink, M. J., A. Dewulf, and C. Termeer. 2013. The role of knowledge and power in climate change adaptation governance: a systematic literature review. Ecology and Society 18(4): 46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05897-180446
Disentangling the consensus frame of food security
Users' perspectives on decentralized rural water services in Tanzania
This article examines the impact of decentralization reforms on improving access to domestic water supply in the rural districts of Kondoa and Kongwa, Tanzania, using a users' and a gender perspective. The article addresses the question whether and to what extent the delivery of gender-sensitive water services to rural households improved after the reforms. Household- and village-level data were obtained through a household survey and qualitative…
Rethinking barriers to adaptation
Gender perspectives on decentralisation and service users' participation in rural Tanzania
Increasing participation in decision-making processes by service users is one of the objectives of decentralisation reforms in Tanzania. The argument is that decentralisation enhances participation by all sections of the community, and by women in particular, and results in decisions that better reflect local needs. This paper examines the impact of decentralisation reforms on service users' participation for delivery of water and health services…
Informational governance – A systematic literature review of governance for sustainability in the Information Age
Governance Capabilities for Dealing Wisely With Wicked Problems
This article explores an integrative approach for dealing with wicked problems. Wicked problems not only require alternative action strategies but also alternative ways of observing and enabling. Four governance capabilities are essential: (a) reflexivity, or the capability to deal with multiple frames; (b) resilience, or the capability to adjust actions to uncertain changes; (c) responsiveness, or the capability to respond to changing agendas an…
Introduction article
Social media as a new playing field for the governance of agro-food sustainability
ICT-enabled boundary spanning arrangements in collaborative sustainability governance
The European Commission's ability to deal with wicked problems
The European Commission's ability to cope with wicked problems is generally viewed as inadequate because of its hierarchical and inflexible modus operandi. Recent research suggests, however, that the Commission may be better equipped to deal with wicked problems than is commonly assumed. To elucidate these contradictory viewpoints, we analysed conditions that enable or constrain the Commission in dealing with wicked problems. To do so, we applied…
Transformational change
Although transformational change is a rather new topic in climate change adaptation literature, it has been studied in organisational theory for over 30 years. This paper argues that governance scholars can learn much from organisation theory, more specifically regarding the conceptualisation of change and intervention strategies. We reconceptualise the divide between transformational change and incremental change by questioning the feasibility o…
Governing the Palm-Oil Sector through Finance
By analysing the different roles of the Indonesian state in arranging finance schemes for palm-oil development since 1945, this article aims to answer two questions: What are these roles? And to what extent have they prioritised or balanced economic growth, social equity, and environmental protection? We conclude that the state has never been absent from the palm-oil industry but has had different and changing financing roles that are historicall…
Identifying barriers and levers of biodiversity mainstreaming in four cases of transnational governance of land and water
Mainstreaming biodiversity into the governance of economic sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries is required to reverse biodiversity loss and achieve globally adopted conservation targets. Governments have recognized this but little progress has been made. This paper addresses the following research question: What are the barriers and levers for mainstreaming biodiversity into economic sectors that exert high pressure on biodiversit…
A small wins framework to overcome the evaluation paradox of governing wicked problems
The evaluation of policy strategies to tackle wicked policy problems inevitably involves a paradox of trying to judge solutions for problems that have no solutions and for which additional efforts might increase the chances of finding better responses. This paper analyzes how the concept of small wins can contribute to evaluating progress in wicked problem areas in a way that energizes a variety of stakeholders instead of paralyzing them and embr…
Social media hypes about agro-food issues
The disciplining of illegal palm oil plantations in Sumatra
The Indonesian state has issued many regulations to control palm oil expansion, but they have been weakly enforced, resulting in widespread illegal plantations. During the last decade, Indonesian authorities have used force to reduce illegal plantations. This article analyses the drivers behind these actions and questions to what extent they reflect the rise of eco-authoritarianism. By investigating six cases of disciplinary action in Sumatra, we…
A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems
Agricultural systems in Europe face accumulating economic, ecological and societal challenges, raising concerns about their resilience to shocks and stresses. These resilience issues need to be addressed with a focus on the regional context in which farming systems operate because farms, farmers' organizations, service suppliers and supply chain actors are embedded in local environments and functions of agriculture . We define resilience of a far…
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