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Dave Huitema is a Professor and Chairholder of the Public Administration Policy Group at Wageningen University Research (WUR). His research primarily focuses on the role of government in facilitating and triggering transformations towards sustainability. He explores how individual policy entrepreneurs consciously affect policy dynamics and learning processes within government, including aspects like citizen participation, evaluation, serious games, and policy experiments. His work aims to enhance societal impact through sustainable approaches in various domains, including water management and climate change energy. Huitema connects theories of policy dynamics with the science-policy interface, adaptive governance, and polycentricity. He holds an M.A. and a PhD from the University of Twente and has previously worked at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Open Universiteit as a professor in environmental policy. Currently, he is involved in several ongoing research projects funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), focusing on locked policy systems, circular water management, and advancing global perspectives on water governance. He actively teaches courses at WUR and engages students in research within his fields of expertise.
Wageningen University Research • Wageningen
Leader of the Public Administration Policy Group, focusing on government roles in sustainability transformations.
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