Organisation

Name:	Prof. dr. H. Th. A. Bressers
	Professor of Policy Studies and Environmental Policy
Affiliation:	Twente Centre for Studies in Technology and Sustainable Development

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Telephone:	+31 53 489 3195
Fax:	+31 53 489 4850

Research:

-	Aquaterra NL: Scientific knowledge in decision making for water-Management projects.

-	Administrative coupling: Dealing with complexity in water management.

-	Effectiveness of wetland protection policies.

-	Interactive governance in practice.

-	European water regimes and the notion of a sustainable status.

-	The effectiveness and efficiency of environmental regulation: The Dutch effluent charges.

-	Water governance and institutional change.

-	Interactive implementation.

Prof.dr. Hans Th.A. Bressers (1953) is professor of Policy Studies and Environmental Policy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and scientific director of the Twente Centre for Studies in Technology and Sustainable Development of that university. He is an independent scientific member of the Commission on Sustainable development of the Dutch Social-Economic Council (SER). Furthermore he is a member of the editorial board of the Dutch policy studies journal Beleidswetenschap. 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. 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.

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