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... -
NEWAVE – Next water governance
NEWAVE is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) on the ‘Next Water Governance’, funded by the EU Horizon 2020... -
AquaConnect – Fresh water provision governance
AquaConnect addresses the societal impacts of water scarcity through enhancing regional resilience and innovative technologies. The project seeks to... -
Adapt LOCK-IN - Understanding the impact of policy lock-ins on climate change adaptation
Adapt LOCK-IN delves into the challenges of embedding climate adaptation into policies. Focusing on six domains like biodiversity and coastal risks,... -
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...
Our PhD and postdoc projects
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A key towards drought preparedness in northeast Brazil (PhD project - Louise Cavalcante de Souza Cabral)
The goal is to understand how policies have developed over time, and how it has affected the dissemination of drought impacts locally. I use... -
Governance Arrangements for the Reflexive Innovation of Biorefinery Technology (PhD project - Jan Starke)
Using renewable plants instead of fossil oil to make energy, materials, and other products: EU policymakers have high hopes in the bioeconomy to... -
Explorations of science-policy interfaces for climate change and livestock systems in Eastern Africa (PhD project - Laura Cramer)
Climate change is going to have large effects on the production of livestock in eastern Africa. The impacts will come not just from the biophysical... -
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... -
Transformative and just climate and biodiversity pathways (PhD project - Sofie Ryan)
My PhD research is embedded in the Horizon Europe TRANSPATH project, and will focus on the governance of synergized climate change and biodiversity... -
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...