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Fellow Name Anna Wesselink
Host Institute: Sustainability Research Institute
School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Phone: + 44 113 343 8700
E-mail: a.wesselink@see.leeds.ac.uk
Background
  • Water resources management
  • Experience in developing countries; policy studies
  • Science and technology studies
Academic training
  • PhD 'Integrated water management as interweaving of expertise and interests' at Twente University (NL) (2007)
  • BSc and MSc in Tropical Land and Water Management Wageningen University and Research Centre (NL) (1989)
Research Interests:
  • Decision making in natural resource management
  • Philosophy of science
  • Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research
Project Description The context-dependence of participation in the multi-level governance solutions for biodiversity and water in Europe, identifying the key policy needs for participation in these areas of governance through an understanding of how the legal, political, social and physical contexts, and vertical and horizontal interplay between levels and areas of governance shape the conditions and effectiveness of European policies.
Previous Experiences
  • 11 years as a hydrologist in water resource research & practice: Area Hydrologist with Environment Agency in Bridgwater (UK)
  • Independent consultant
  • Associate Expert Water Resources with UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Madagascar
  • Associate Expert Hydrologist with the UN World Meteorological Organisation in the Central African Republic
  • Higher Scientific Officer with the Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford (UK)
Publications
  • Wesselink, A. J. (2007) Flood safety in the Netherlands: the Dutch political response to Hurricane Katrina. In: Technology in Society 29 (2) 239-247
  • Wesselink, A. J., W. E. Bijker, H. J. de Vriend, M. S. Krol (2007) Dutch dealings with the Delta. In: Nature & Culture 2 (2) (forthcoming)
  • Wesselink, A. J., J. Reuber & M. S. Krol (2005) Anticipating climate change: knowledge use in participatory flood management in the river Meuse. In: Conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the European Water Resources Association, 7-10 September 2005, Menton, France.
Nationality Dutch
Born April 10, 1963
Studied in
  • Wageningen (NL)
Fluent in Dutch, English, French

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