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Hans Bressers
Name: Prof.dr. Hans Th.A. Bressers
E-mail: j.t.a.bressers@utwente.nl
Telephone: +31 53 489 3195
Fax: +31 53 489 4850
Room: Ravelijn 3121
Prof.dr. Hans Th.A. Bressers (1953) is professor of Policy Studies and Environmental Policy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and founder of CSTM.
Furthermore he was, inter alia, vice-chairman of the official permanent Evaluation Committee of the Environmental Management Act, which advises the Minister regularly on the efficacy of Dutch environmental policy. He was also the chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Dutch Minister for the Environment for the implementation of environmental policy by local government (1991-2001) and has been chairman of the Dutch social science association for environmental and energy research, SWOME.
He was a member of review teams in National Research Programmes and chaired four times review committees of the Dutch national science foundation. Furthermore he was a member of the editorial board of the Dutch policy studies journal Beleidswetenschap.
Currently he is an independent scientific member of the Commission on Sustainable development of the Dutch Social-Economic Council (SER).
His dissertation on Dutch water quality management (1983) won the annual award for best Dutch Public Administration book and was later one on the ten nominees for the award for the Public Administration ‘book of the century’ (of the ten only two by still living Dutchmen; “Administrative Behaviour” by Herbert Simon won).
In over two hundred articles, chapters, reports, papers and books (both in Dutch and in English) he published on policy-mapping, -instruments, -implementation, -evaluation and policy networks, mostly applied on environmental policies and water management.
He has been researcher and project leader of numerous externally funded projects, including several projects funded by EU research frameworks, Dutch national science foundation, Dutch ministries, etceteras.
Expertise & Research Interests
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Environmental policy |
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Policy instruments |
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Policy implementation |
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Policy evaluation |
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Policy networks |
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Governance models |
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Water management |
Selected Publications
Bressers, H., O'Toole, L. J., & Richardson, J. (eds) (1995). Networks and water policy: A comparative perspective. London: Frank Cass. [co-author of three chapters; also published as special issue of Environmental Politics, 3(4), Winter 1994].
Bressers, H. (1995). The impact of effluent charges. In: M. Jänicke & H. Weidner (eds), Successful environmental policy. Berlin: Sigma.
Bressers, H., & Hanf, K. I. (1995). Instruments, institutions and the strategy of sustainable development: The experiences of environmental policy. In: W. J. M. Kickert & F. A. van Vught (eds), Public policy and administration sciences in the Netherlands. London / New York: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Bressers, H., & Plettenburg, L. (1996). The Netherlands. In National Environmental Policies: A comparative study of Capacity-Building, pp. 109-132, Berlin: Springer.
Bressers, H., & Schrama, G. (1998). Water supply authorities in Europe preventing agricultural water pollution (DG XII, Research on the Socio-economic Aspects of Environmental Change). Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
Bressers, H., & O'Toole, L. J. (1998). The selection of policy instruments: a network-based perspective. Journal of Public Policy, 18(3), 213-239.
Bressers, H. (1999). A comparison of the effectiveness of incentives and directives: The case of Dutch water quality policy. In: T. Tietenberg, K. Button & P. Nijkamp (eds), Environmental instruments and institutions, pp. 391-409, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Bressers, H., & Huitema, D. (2000). Economic instruments for environmental protection: Can we trust the ‘magic carpet’? International Political Science Review, 20(2), 175-196. [also published in M. S. Anderson & R.-U. Sprenger (Eds.), Market-based instruments for environmental management, Vol. 20, pp. 67-88, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.]
Bressers, H., & Rosenbaum, W. A. (2000). Uncertainty and environmental policy. Policy Studies Journal, 28(3), pp. 668–671. [Co-author of three articles in this symposium]
Kuks, S. M. M., & Schrama, G. J. I. (2001). Negotiated agreements between water suppliers and farmers in the context of changing water networks in Europe. In C. Dosi (Ed.), Agricultural use of groundwater. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 169-194.
Bressers, H., Klok, P.-J., & O’Toole, L. J. (2001). Explaining Policy Action: A Deductive but Realistic Theory, World capitalism, governance and community; IPSA World Congress 2000 (pp. 1-26). CD-Rom Proceedings.
Bressers, H., & Kuks, S. M. (2002). Integrated Water Management Regimes and more Sustainable Water Resources in Europe: A Case Study Comparison (EUWARENESS, European Water Regimes and the Notion of a Sustainable Status No. EVK1-CT-1999-0038). Enschede: University of Twente. [European Research Project contracted by the EC-DG XII in respect of the Fifth Framework Programme 1998-2002].
Bressers, H., & Rosenbaum, W. A. (eds) (2003). Achieving sustainable development: The challenge of governance across social scales. New York-Westpoint-London: Praeger.
Bressers, H., & Rosenbaum, W. A. (2003). Social scales, sustainability and governance: An introduction. In: H. Bressers & W. A. Rosenbaum (eds), Achieving sustainable development: The challenge of governance across social scales. New York-Westpoint-London: Praeger.
Bressers, H., & Kuks, S. M. (2003). What does governance mean? From concept to elaboration. In: H. Bressers & W. A. Rosenbaum (eds), Achieving sustainable development: The challenge of governance across social scales. New York-Westpoint-London: Praeger.
Bressers, H., & Kuks, S. M. (2003). Managing water resources in Florida and the Netherlands: The impact of national orientations on multi-scale governance. In: H. Bressers & W. A. Rosenbaum (eds), Achieving sustainable development: The challenge of governance across social scales. New York-Westpoint-London: Praeger.
Bressers, H. (2004). Understanding the implementation of instruments: How to know what works, where, when and how. In: W. M. Lafferty (ed.), Governance for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bressers, H., & Kuks, S. M. (2004). Industrial water pollution in the Netherlands: A fee-based approach. In: W. Harrington, R. Morgenstern & T. Sterner (eds), Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe. Washington: RFF Press.
Bressers, H., & Kuks, S. M. (Eds.). (2004). Integrated governance and water basin management: Conditions for regime change towards sustainability. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bressers, H., & Kuks, S. M. (2004). Integrated governance and water basin management: An introduction. In: H. Bressers & S. M. Kuks (eds), Integrated governance and water basin management: Conditions for regime change towards sustainability. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bressers, H., & Fuchs, D. (2004). Integrated regimes and their relevance for sustainable resource use: Theoretical backgrounds and hypotheses. In: H. Bressers & S. M. Kuks (eds), Integrated governance and water basin management: Conditions for regime change towards sustainability. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bressers, H., & Kuks, S. M. (2004). Comparative analysis and outlook. In: H. Bressers & S. M. Kuks (eds), Integrated governance and water basin management: Conditions for regime change towards sustainability. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Arrojo, P., Dionysis, A., Barraque, B., Bressers, H., & Estaban, C. (2005). European Declaration for a New Water Culture. Madrid: Fundación Nueva Cultura del Aqua.
Bressers, H. T. A., & O’Toole, L. J. (2005). Instrument selection and implementation in a networked context. In: P. Eliades, M. M. Hill & M. Howlett (eds), Designing government: From instruments to governance (pp. 132-153). Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Dinica, V., Bressers, H., & de Bruijn, T. (2005, June 6-8). The implementation of a multi-annual agreement for energy efficiency in the Netherlands. Paper presented at the 11th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
Lulofs, K., Bressers, H., & Boeren, A. (2005). Schokgolven in het openbaar bestuur na “Enschede”: Beleidsintensivering en veiligheid na de vuurwerkramp. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Lemma.
Bressers, H. T. A., & Kuks, S. M. M. (2005). Integrated water regimes and sustainable use: Learning from comparing cases. In: M. A. Lange, D. Poszig & A. Herrmann (eds), Water on Mediterranean Islands (pp. 433-468). Münster: ZUFO.
Hans Bressers & Theo de Bruijn, Conditions for the success of negotiated agreements: Partnerships for environmental improvement in the Netherlands, in: Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 14, 2005, pp. 241-254.
Bressers, H. & Bruijn, T. J. N. M. de (2005). Environmental voluntary agreements in the Dutch context. In: E. Croci (ed.), The handbook of environmental voluntary agreements: Design, implementation and evaluation issues (pp. 261-281). Dordrecht / Berlin: Springer.
Bressers, H. & Kuks, S. (2006). Water basin regimes in Europe and institutional conditions for their sustainability. In: V. I. Grover (ed.), Water: Global common and global problems (pp. 235-268). Enfield, New Hampshire: Science Publishers.
Bressers, H. T. A., & Xue, Y. (2006). Environmental negotiated agreements: The process analysis approach and NA’s feasibility in China. Paper presented at the Twelfth Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Hong Kong.
Bressers, H. (2006). Implementing sustainable development: how to know what works, where, when and how. In: W. M. Lafferty (ed.), Governance for Sustainable Development (pp. 284-318). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Bressers, H., Bruijn, T. de & Dinica, V. (2006, July 1-6). Integration and communication as central issues in Dutch negotiated agreements on industrial energy efficiency. Paper presented at the Greening of Industry world conference, Cardiff UK.
Huitema, D. & Bressers, H. (2006, December). Scaling water governance: the case of the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands. Paper presented at the Synthesis Conference of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change program, Bali, Indonesia.
Hongwei, S. & Bressers, H. T. A. (2006). The motility mechanism of the environmental covenant model and its inspirations to Chinese environmental policies. Ecological Economy (Chinese edition), 11, 43-46.
Dinica, V., Bressers, H. & Bruijn, T. de (2007). The implementation of a multi-annual agreement for energy efficiency in the Netherlands. Energy Policy, 35(2), 461-480: 1196-1212.
Bressers, Hans Th. A. & Ligteringen, Josee J. (2007). Political-administrative policies for sustainable household behavior. International Journal of Environmental Consumerism, ISSN 0973-2810, Vol. 2, No. 2-3, pp. 5-15.
Bressers, Hans Th.A. (2007). Contextual Interaction Theory and the issue of boundary definition: Governance and the motivation, cognitions and resources of actors. External report ISBP EU-project, January 2007, published on website ISBP, http://www.tigress.ac/isbp/, CSTM series Studies and Reports No. 323, ISSN 1381-6357, pp. 1-31.
Bressers, Hans Th.A. & Lulofs, Kris R.D. (2007). Explaining the policy impact of the 1991 and 2000 firework blasts in the Netherlands by the core of six policy change models. Paper submitted to the workshop The determinants of policy change: advancing the debate, ECPR - Helsinki Joint Sessions, Helsinki 7-12 May 2007, pp. 1-24.
Bressers, Hans, Theo de Bruijn & Valentina Dinica (2007). Integration and communication as central issues in Dutch negotiated agreements on industrial energy efficiency. European Environment, Vol. 17, pp. 215-230. John Willey & Sons, Ltd. ISSN 0964-4733.
Bressers, Hans T.A. & Yanyan Xue (2007). The feasibility of environmental negotiated agreements in China. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, ISSN (Online): 1478-7466 - ISSN (Print): 1474-6778, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 221-241.
Minang, Peter A., Michael K. McCall, & Hans Th.A. Bressers (2007). Community capacity for implementing clean development mechanism projects within community forests in Cameroon. Environmental Management, ISSN 1432-1009, (ISSN 0364-152X (print), Vol. 39 (5), pp. 615-630.
Minang, Peter A., Hans Th.A. Bressers, Margaret M. Skutsch & Michael K. McCall (2007). National forest policy as a platform for biosphere carbon management. Environmental Science and Policy, ISSN 1462-9011, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 204-218.
Zoarob, Z.K. & J.T.A. Bressers (2007). Sustainability and institutional water resource regime in the Gaza strip. Paper International Conference: Sustainable Development and Management of Water in Palestine, Amman, August 27-30, 2007. In web based conference proceedings.
Bressers, Hans Th.A. & Kuks, Stefan M.M. (2008). Institutional sustainability: Integrated regimes for river basin management: What helps them grow and do they work? In: Alexandra Dehnhardt and Urlich Petschow (eds), Sustainability in River Basins: A question of governance. Munich: Oekom publishers. ISBN 978-3-86581-034-2, Munich: Oekom publishers, pp. 163-184.
Bressers, Hans Th.A. (2008). The choice of policy instruments in policy networks. In: B. Guy Peters and Frans van Nispen (eds), Public policy instruments: Evaluation the tools of public administration. (in Chinese). ISBN 7-300-07531-2/c-331, Beijing: Public Policy Classics. pp. 85-104.
Bressers, J.Th.A. (2008). Evaluatie van beleid. In: A. Hoogerwerf en M. Herweijer (red.), Overheidsbeleid: Een inleiding in de beleidswetenschap. 8e druk, Alphen aan de Rijn: Kluwer. ISBN 978 90 13 05192 6, pp. 155-178.
Bressers, J.Th.A. & Klok, P-J. (2008). De inhoud van het beleid. In: A. Hoogerwerf en M. Herweijer (red.), Overheidsbeleid: Een inleiding in de beleidswetenschap. 8e druk, Alphen aan de Rijn: Kluwer. ISBN 978 90 13 05192 6, pp. 181-204.
Bressers, Hans & Dinica, Valentina (2008). Incorporating sustainable development principles in the governance of the Dutch domestic tourism sector: The relevance of boundary judgements. Paper at the conference Creating Values for Sustainable Development, 20-22 August, University of Basel, Switzerland. In: Claus-Heinrich Daub, Paul Burger, Yvonne Scherrer (eds), Creating values for sustainable development, proceedings, ISBN 978 3 906129 48 8, pp. 1-17.
Bressers, Hans, Hanegraaff, Simone & Lulofs, Kris (2008). Space for water in physical planning: Constructing an inhabited retention area and a new river. External report ISBP EU-project, October 2008, published on website ISBP, http://www.tigress.ac/isbp/, CSTM Studies and Reports No. 340, ISSN 1381-6357, pp. 1-69.
Bruijn, Theo de, Bressers, Hans & Vikolainen, Vera (2008). Handhaving in Leeuwarden. Een onderzoek in opdracht van de Rekenkamer Leeuwarden, Enschede: CSTM, Universiteit Twente, CSTM Studies and Reports No. 338, ISSN 1381-6357, pp. 1-51.
Dinica, Valentina & Bressers, Hans (2008). How to govern for sustainable tourism? An evaluation of the Dutch governance approach to sustainability. Paper presented at the International Easy-Eco Conference on Governance for Sustainable Development, in conference proceedings, University of Vienna, 12-14 March 2008.
Franco-Garcia, M. Laura & Bressers, Hans Th.A. (2008). Towards sustainability by negotiated agreements between industrial sectors and government: The Mexican case. Paper prepared for the 2008 conference of the Greening of Industry Network. Facilitating Sustainable Innovations: Sustainable Innovation as a Tool for Regional Development. Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, June 26-28, GIN 2008 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-90-365-2786-6, pp. 1-26.
Haase, Nadine & Bressers, Hans (2008). In search of an optimal design for European gas markets. In: Network Industries Quarterly, ISSN 1662-6176, Vol. 10, No. 3.
Hongwei, Shi, He-mei, Liu, Bressers, Hans Th.A. & Bruijn, Theo J.N.M. de (2008). Negotiated agreements in the Dutch context and its inspirations for Chinese environmental management. In: Journal of US-China Public Administration, ISSN 1548-6591, May 2008, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 1-11.
Kampa, Eleftheria & Bressers, Hans (2008). Evolution of the Greek national regime for water resources. In: Water Policy, ISSN 1366-7017, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 481-500.
Skutsch, M. & H. Bressers (2008). Power, motivation and cognition in the construction of climate policy: the case of tropical forestry. In: Grover, V. (ed.), Global Warming and Climate Change. Enfield NH, USA: Science Publishers. ISBN: 9781578085392.
Bressers Hans, Bruin, Theo de and Lulofs, Kris (2009). Environmental negotiated agreements in the Netherlands. In: Environmental Politics, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 58-77.
Bressers, Hans & Coenen, Frans (2009). Trends, drivers and dilemma’s in the transition towards sustainable water management, paper at The Oslo Symposium on democracy, research engagement and sustainable development, Oslo, May 7-9, 2009.
Bressers, Hans & Lulofs, Kris (2009). Explaining the policy impact of the 1991 and 2000 firework blasts in the Netherlands by the core of five policy change models. In: Giliberto Capano and Michael Howlett (eds), European and North American Policy Change: Drivers and dynamics, Milton Park, New York: Routledge, pp. 15-42.
Bressers, Hans (2009). From public administration to policy networks: Contextual interaction analysis. In: Stéphane Narath and Frédéric Varone (eds), Rediscovering public law and public administration in comparative policy analysis: a tribute to Peter Knoepfel, Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes & Berne: Haupt Verlag, pp. 123-142.
Bressers Hans & Dinica, Valentina (2009). Governing sustainable tourism: The relevance of boundary judgments. In: Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 1111-1120.
Boer, Cheryl de & Bressers, Hans (2010). New Rurality: The Netherlands Country Screening, report for ANR Systerra, pp. 1-149.
Warner, J., Lulofs, K. & Bressers, H. (2010). The fine art of boundary spanning: Making space for water in the East Netherlands. In: Water Alternatives, Vol. 3 (nr. 1): 137-153.
Franco-García, María Laura & Bressers, Hans Th. A. (2010). Towards Sustainability Through Collaboration Between Industrial Sectors and Government: The Mexican Case, in: Sarkis, Joseph; Cordeiro, James J.; Vazquez Brust, Diego (eds), Facilitating Sustainable Innovation Through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective, 1st Edition., 2010, XIII, 267 p., Berlin: Springer Science, pp. 247-264.
Bressers, Hans & Lulofs, Kris (eds) (2010). Governance and Complexity in Water Management, Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning, Edward Elgar/IWA, pp. 1-256.
Kris Lulofs & Bressers, Hans (2010). Innovations in Water Management Requiring Boundary Spanning: Roots and Concepts. In Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs (eds), Governance and Complexity in Water Management, Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning, Edward Elgar/IWA, pp. 1-16.
Bressers, Hans & Lulofs, Kris (2010). Analysis of Boundary Judgments in Complex Interaction Processes. In: Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs (eds), Governance and Complexity in Water Management, Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning, Edward Elgar/IWA, pp. 17-32.
Bressers, Hans, Hanegraaff, Simone & Lulofs, Kris (2010). Space for Water and Boundary Spanning Governance. In: Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs (eds), Governance and Complexity in Water Management, Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning, Edward Elgar/IWA, pp. 68-87.
Hans Bressers, Simone Hanegraaff and Kris Lulofs (2010). Building a New River and Boundary Spanning Governance. In: Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs (eds), Governance and Complexity in Water Management, Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning, Edward Elgar/IWA, pp. 88-113.
Bressers, Hans & Lulofs, Kris (2010). Conclusions. In: Hans Bressers and Kris Lulofs (eds), Governance and Complexity in Water Management, Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning, Edward Elgar/IWA, pp. 193-204.
Haase, Nadine & Bressers, Hans (2010). New market designs and their effect on economic performance in European Union’s natural gas markets, in: Journal of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Volume 11, No. 2, pp. 176-206.
Xue, Yanyan & Bressers, Hans (2010). 'Potentiality-capability' analysis framework of negotiated agreements: A comparative study of industrial energy saving in the Netherlands and China, paper presented at the 16th International Sustainable development Research Conference, in Proceedings, Hong Kong, May 30 - June 1 2010, pp. 1-40.
Boer, Cheryl de & Bressers, Hans (2010). “Inter-regime” effects on local stream restoration projects, paper presented at the ISEE conference on “Sustainability in a time of crisis”, Oldenburg-Bremen, August 22-25, pp. 1-33.
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