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Research Centre Amsterdam
The Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is committed to contribute to the implementation of the Earth System Governance Project as part of the global alliance of Earth System Governance Research Centres.
The Department of Environmental Policy Analysis is a vibrant international group of around 35 researchers, faculty members and PhD students within the university's Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), the oldest environmental research institute in the Netherlands.
The group shares an interest in analysing policies, institutions and governance mechanisms in the field of sustainable development, and in exploring new forms of governance that better secure a transition to sustainable production and consumption. A defining characteristic of the department is a high degree of multidisciplinarity within the social sciences that brings together experts from international relations, law, management studies, philosophy and religion, political science, policy studies, public administration, and psychology. The department is also characterised by a successful combination of high-quality fundamental research in long-term research projects, with practical relevance and policy advice to decision-makers, as well as by a strong integration into European and international networks. In the 2007 national research evaluation 'Environmental Sciences', the group was evaluated as the top department in the Netherlands in the field of 'environmental economics, sociology and policy', and 'internationally at the forefront'.
Within the Earth System Governance Project, the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at IVM plans to contribute research on all five Analytical Themes identified in the Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project, with particular emphasis on the analytical themes of Architecture; Agency; and Adaptiveness. Regarding the four Flagships Activities of the Earth System Governance Project, we have a large number of research projects that focus on climate governance, food governance, and water governance.
Publications
| Author(s) | Title |
Year |
|---|---|---|
| Kalfagianni, Agni., Philipp Pattberg. | Fishing in muddy waters: Exploring the conditions for effective governance of fisheries and aquaculture. Marine Policy, 38: 124-132. | 2013 |
| Biermann, Frank., Philipp Pattberg (editors). | Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | 2012 |
| Biermann, Frank., Kenneth Abbott, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand, Steven Bernstein, Michele M. Betsill, Harriet Bulkeley, Benjamin Cashore, Jennifer Clapp, Carl Folke, Aarti Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Peter M. Haas, Andrew Jordan, Norichika Kanie, Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, James Meadowcroft, Ronald B. Mitchell, Peter Newell, Sebastian Oberthür, Lennart Olsson, Philipp Pattberg, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Heike Schroeder, Arild Underdal, Susana Camargo Vieira, Coleen Vogel, Oran R. Young, Andrea Brock, and Ruben Zondervan. | Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance. Science, 335 (6074): 1306-1307. | 2012 |
| Biermann, Frank. | Planetary Boundaries and Earth System Governance: Exploring the Links. Ecological Economics., 81: 4-9. | 2012 |
| Biermann, Frank. | Greening the United Nations Charter. World Politics in the Anthropocene. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, May/June: | 2012 |
People
| Mairon Bastos Lima, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Prof. Frank Biermann, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Andrea C. Brock, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Sander Chan, Renmin University of China; and VU University Amsterdam, China |
| Prof. Joyeeta Gupta, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Agni Kalfagianni, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Dr. Ayşem Mert, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Prof. Philipp Pattberg, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Prof. Arthur Petersen, VU University Amsterdam; and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands |
| Susan van 't Klooster, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |