Research projects of the Public Administration and Policy Group
Our researchers are involved in a broad range of national and international research projects, in which they collaborate with scientific and societal partners on pressing questions of governing sustainability transformations. Key funders include the European Commission and the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This page provides an overview of the research projects in which the Public Administration and Policy group plays a large role, as well as the individual PhD research projects performed in our group.
Our externally funded projects
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Governing SDG interactions in East-Africa
Numerous governments, businesses, and civil society organisations aim to contribute to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in the global... -
CREATE - Embedding advanced urban material stock methods within governance processes to enable circular economy and cities resilience
CREATE supports urban transformation towards a circular economy by analysing material stocks in urban construction, developing future material flow... -
RED&BLUE: Real Estate Development & Building in Low Urban Environments
Within RED&BLUE, WUR aims to assess current law, planning, and policy mechanisms to understand how responsibilities for climate risk management... -
Can't Escape the Waterscape - Redeveloping water and governance systems for dealing with climate impacts in the Dutch Delta
With projected increase in floods and drought it is apparent that the Dutch water system needs to change. In WaterScape we explore large scale spatial... -
Palm Oil Conflicts and Access to Social Justice in Indonesia
This project is the first-ever study of general patterns and outcomes of oil palm conflicts between communities and companies across Indonesia. Using... -
High ambitions, (s)low implementation? The politics of tracking adaptation to climate change (NWO-VIDI)
Adapting to the impacts of climate change is necessary and increasingly urgent. Governments have formulated ambitious goals, but how do we know if... -
AquaConnect – Fresh water provision governance
AquaConnect addresses the societal impacts of water scarcity through enhancing regional resilience and innovative technologies. The project seeks to... -
STURDI-Water: Designing Regional Water Banks for Resilience
STURDI-Water develops new ways to manage freshwater scarcity in the Dutch delta by designing regional water banks—institutions that fairly... -
PLAN'EAT - Fostering healthy and sustainable EU food consumption
The Horizon Europe PLAN’EAT project aims to better understand how environmental, social, cultural and individual factors affect people’s... -
Diagnosing drought for dealing with drought in 3D
In April 2019 an interdisciplinary research project has started, coordinated by Wageningen University:Diagnosing drought for dealing with drought in...
Our PhD and postdoc projects
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Policy Interventions for Accelerating the Transition to Circular Agriculture in the North-Netherlands (PhD project - Jelle Silvius)
The PhD project of Jelle Silvius deals with the governance of a transformation to Circular Agriculture in the North-Netherlands and the role of... -
Indonesian State Actors in International Palm Oil Arenas: Their Ideational Power and Negotiation Strategies (PhD project - Faris Rahmadian)
This research explores how Indonesian state actors negotiate and attempt to influence international arenas in which the sustainability of palm oil is... -
A global to local study of climate smart livestock in Kenya (PhD project - Annita Kirwa)
The project approaches the governance challenge of addressing sustainable Development Goals (SDG) interactions from a global to local lens through a... -
Transformative Climate Adaption for Healthy Rural Areas (PhD project - Dore Engbersen)
My research focuses on how citizen participation can enable climate adaptation that contributes to establishing healthy rural areas in the... -
A local to global study of climate-smart livestock in Kenya (PhD project - Rachel Gitundu)
The implicit interconnectedness of sustainable development goals (SDGs), creating either synergies or trade-offs, calls for collaboration among... -
Role of visuals in public policy debates about CRISPR technology in Twitter (PhD project - Eduardo Rojas Padilla)
The project studies the role of visualizations in the Twitter debate about CRISPR-Cas technology to identify how different people and institutions... -
Strategies of Southern Embassy in Brussels to Address the EU ‘Green’ Laws (PhD project - Edwin Ramadhan)
This research explores how states from the Global South address the extraterritorial effects and proliferation of the EU 'green' laws on renewable... -
Socio-economic analysis of circular water governance (PhD project - Noëlle Lasseur)
Water represents a major element of life and intersects with all levels of societies and industries. Today, its sustainable use and management face... -
Governance of Carbon Farming (PhD project – Mariana Debernardini)
Carbon farming is heralded as a key approach to reaching a climate-neutral European agriculture sector by academics, decision-makers across the... -
Navigating clashing ideas about an EU food system transition (PhD project – Tom Kiel)
The EU food system is confronted with sustainability and health challenges to such an extent that the question has become what societies can still...