Public Administration and Policy Group
The mission of the Public Administration and Policy group is to study the governance of wicked problems in the interrelated domains of (1) water and climate, and (2) food and agriculture, and to use the generated insights to develop governance arrangements. By doing so the group aims to contribute to scientific progress, to societal debates, and to policy practice.
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On the nature of barriers to climate change adaptation
As part of his PhD research, Robbert Biesbroek and his supervisors have published an article "On the nature of barriers to climate change adaptation" in Regional Environmental Change.
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The PAP group carries out its research programme on how to govern change and how to change governance for wicked problems in the domains of (1) water and climate, and (2) food and agriculture. Our group focuses on how these challenging problems can be observed and theoretically understood; which action strategies are proposed by innovative governance approaches, and which kind of changes in the governance system are necessary to enable innovative governance approaches.
Latest publications
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Bridging knowledge frames and networks in climate and water governance
In: Water governance as connective capacity / , Edelenbos, J., Bressers, N., Scholten, P.. - Farnham : Ashgate, 2013 - ISBN 9781409447467
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Institutional arrangements for decentralized water and health services delivery in rural Tanzania: differences and constraints
Basic Research Journal of Social and Political Sciences 1 (2013)4. - p. 77 - 88.
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Integrating self-governance in heavily regulated policy fields: insights from a Dutch Farmers' Cooperative (online first)
Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (2013). - ISSN 1523-908X - p. 19.