Public Activities

Recent public activities include...

  • April 6, (met Jan Rotmans & Johan Schot), 'Maak duurzaamheid kern van beleid',  Friesch Dagblad.
  • March 30, 'Beginstand: wat weten we nu (nog niet)?', column op het Boekenbal n.a.v. het verschijnen van drie nieuwe delen in de Routledge Series on Sustainability Transition ( www.sustainabilitytransitions.com ). Eindhoven.
  • February 16, 2012. 'Sterke steden anno 2012: Opmaken voor een omwenteling?' Voordracht tijdens de sessie 'Decentralisaties in het sociale domein', op het Festival der Bestuurskunde, Rotterdam.
  • December, 21, 2011. ' ‘Plan-Borssele II is te wankel’, artikel van 69 hoogleraren in NRC Handelsblad, 21 december 2011.
  • November 17, Interview, opgenomen in Janne Chaudron, ‘Duurzaamheid komt van doeners, en niet meer van vergadertijgers’, Trouw.
  • November 11, Lid panel (met Paul Doop, Roland Waardenburg en Loulou van Ravensteijn) tijdens Duurzame toekomst: hoe zetten we wensen om in duurzaam beleid.
  • October 20, 'De rol van de overheid intransities: mogelijkheden voor nu', inleiding op het symposium 'De toekomst van transitiesturing', geirganiseerd dor de Vereniging voor milieuprofessionals, sectie Innovatie en Maatschappelijke Systemen,Utrecht.
  • October 11, 'From institutionalized design towards designing institutions', lecture atthe seminar Minisymposium ‘Kentering en toekomst van het veehouderijonderzoek’, Animal Sciences Group-WUR, Lelystad
  • June 30, 2011. “Theorising energy transitions: what we know, and what we don’t know”. Lecture at the first Seminar (Exploring Transitions: towards a research agenda) at the ESCR Seminar series on Sustainability Transitions. University of Liverpool . UK .   
  • June 17, 2011. “Technology Assessment in Late Modernity,” lecture at Future of Science and Technology in Society in Honour of Arie Rip
  • June 14, 2011. “ Towards a novel mode of transition governance in Dutch agriculture? Lessons from recent experiences.” Paper presented at the session Transition to sustainable agriculture in Japan and Central European countries, organized by Hideaki Shiroyama and John Grin at the 2 nd International Conference on Sustainability Transitions - Diversity, plurality and change: breaking new grounds in sustainability transition research, June 13-15, 2011, Lund , Sweden .
  • June 9, 2011. Panel member at a Symposium on ‘Sturen zondergeld’ organized by Interproviciaal Overleg and Leren voor  Duurzame Ontwikkeling. The Hague .
  • June 9, 2011. “Learning from the projects: implications for urban governance.” Opening remarks at the Seminar on Challenges of Urban Governance. Organized by NICIS, The Hague March 3, 2011, Grethe van Geffen & John Grin. “Arabische lente kwam niet als ‘verrassing.’ Buitenlands beleid  was beter voorbereid als tegenspraak niet onmiddellijk was weggehoond. NRC Handelsblad
  • February, 9, 2011, 'Telecare for specific client groups: lessons from an experiment by Cordaan', Final Conference Project Zorg op Afstand: bestaande techniek voor nieuwe groepen', organized by Cordaan, Rode Hoed, Amsterdam
  • December 11, 2010. Interview, included in Evert Nieuwenhuis, ‘Het groene vergezicht – duurzame energie nog ver weg’, Vrij Nederland, p. 28-33.
  • December 4, 2010. Co-signer (with Wubbo Ockels, Jan Rotmans and ten other professors) of an essay on coal plants’ impact on sustainable innovations, that drew wide attention from TV and newspapers.
  • November 23, 2010, 'Reflexive design: rationale, approach, institutional aspects, examples ', keynote address at the workshop Researching the transition towards a low carbon society, organized by the Aston Center for Critical Infrastructure & Servioces,Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
  • November 17, 2010. Transitions to a sustainable society: a governance perspective. Systemwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, 17 noember 2010, Institut für Umweltsystemforschung , Universität Osnabrück.
  • November 11, 2010. Breakfast addressto the participants in the Sustainability Tour Noord-Holland at Sustainability Day 2010.
  • September, 28, 2010. Workshop 2 –zorg weer mensenwerk makenat the Sigra Visieconferentie 2010: de arbeidsmarkt in 2025.Zorgvoor de TKMST. 
  • August 31, Sustainable development in the Amsterdam Port. Seminar, University of Tokyo
  • August 30, 2010, 'TA in the context of transition management', Lecture at the Public Symposium “Practices of Technology Assessment (TA) and Issues for the Institutionalization of TA in Japan.Tokyo.
  • June 4, Jan Rotmans, John Grin, Johan Schot, 'De groene economie past bij ons', de Volkskrant, p. 21.
  • June 3-4, Co-organizer and speaker at Final Conference of the Knowledge Network System innovations and transitions, ss Rotterdam .
  • May 18, Debate organized by KSI in co-operation with Royal Academy of Sciences on our recent book John Grin, Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot (2010). Transitions to Sustainable Development. New Directions in the Study of Longterm Structural Change. New York : Routledge. Cf. www.aissr.uva.nl April 20.
  • Lead interview in Kien-Nieuwsbrief Directie Kennis en Innovatie, Ministerie van LNV. http://venik.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lnv_kien5_nieuwsbrief_web.pdf
  • April 9. ‘Between governments, kitchens, firms and farms: the governance of transitions between societal practices and supply systems’, Session Transition Governance at the 14 th Annual Conference of the International Research Society onPublic Management, Bern, Switzerland, April 7-9.
  • March 27, 2010.Interview in Thomas van Heste, ‘‘Megastal: tijdbom of wijsheid’, Vrij Nederland 27/3/2010. Cf. www.transforum.nl/content/view/331/71/lang,nl
  • February 13, 2010. 'Transitions -a reflexive governance perspective'. Keynote contribution to Workshop Transition Management for Sustainable Society - European Experience and Japanese Context. Integrated System for Sustainability Science, University of Tokyo .
  • February 1, 2010. 'Sociaal maatschappelijke visie op keuzevraagstukken bij duurzaam beheer van de ondergrond’, Voordracht op het Startcongres SKB, Duurzame ontwikkeling van de ondergrond, Den Haag.
  • January, 28, 2010. 'Praktijken voor Workplace Health Promotion:een transitie perspectief’, Seminar Systeeminnovaties Gezondheidsmanagement. Wageningen University .
  • January 21,2010.  ' Advice for action: What to do when society cannot wait  for full, uncontested knowledge?' Invited Lecture a the First international conference on Frontiers in Shallow Subsurface Technology , Delft , 20-22 January 2010.
  • November, 26,2009. 'Financial Aspects of Sustainable Development: a transition perspective', Crystal City , Amsterdam .
  • September 28, 2009. ‘Strategies for Green Care: a Transitions Perspective’, Key Note Lecture at a Cost Conference on Green Care, Antalya , Turkey , Sept 28-30.
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