dr. G. Özerol (Gül)

Social Sciences

# Governance
# Irrigation
# Palestine
# Water
# Water Resources Management

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Policy
# Water
# Water Management

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM)

Gül holds a PhD in Governance for Sustainability from the University of Twente, an MSc degree in Integrated Assessment from the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and BSc and MSc degrees in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Her main research expertise is in actor-based and institutional analysis of natural resource governance, focusing on water, energy and land resources.

Gül is keen to improve the scientific and practical foundations of the political, social and ecological dimensions of sustainability through applying transdisciplinary and comparative methods. She has been participating in and managing collaborative projects in Europe, North America, Middle East and North Africa, and acquired local experience in Turkey, Palestine, the Netherlands, Germany and the United States.

Research Interests

Water, energy and climate governance

Participation, conflict, gender and justice

Transdisciplinary and comparative research methods

Mirhanoğlu, A. , Özerol, G., Hoogesteger, J., VAN DEN BROECK, P., & Loopmans, M. (2023). Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures. International journal of the commons, 17(1), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1188

Aukes, E. J. , Franco-Garcia, L. , Lulofs, K. R. D. , McGreevy, S. , Özerol, G. , & Sanderink, L. (2023). Transforming a Problem-based learning course into a Challenge-based learning course: UT M-EEM “Challenge-based Sustainability Case projects”. University of Twente.

Mohammadzadeh, L. , Ozerol, G., & Ghanian, M. (2023). Governance of Agricultural Water Management: How Does the EPSI Model Explain Iranian Farmers' Satisfaction? An Experience from Northwestern Iran. Journal of agricultural science and technology, 25(1), 19-32. http://jast.modares.ac.ir/article-23-53363-en.html

Bressers, H. T. A. , & Özerol, G. (2022). Coping with extreme events in midsize cities: Enabling practitioners to assess the supportiveness of their governance context. Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Climate Change & Water 2022, Tours, France.

Sayers, P., Gersonius, B. , Özerol, G., Nugraha, E., & Schipper, C. A. (2022). A Framework for Cloud to Coast Adaptation: Maturity and Experiences from across the North Sea. Land, 11(6), [950]. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060950

Schillinger, J. M. , Özerol, G. , & Heldeweg, M. A. (2022). A social-ecological systems perspective on the impacts of armed conflict on water resources management: Case studies from the Middle East. Geoforum, 133, 101-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.05.001

Bormann, H., Böge, M., Dolman, N. , Özerol, G. , & Lulofs, K. (2022). Ein webbasiertes Tool zur Unterstützung mittelgroßer Städte bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel. Wasser und Abfall, 24(3), 39-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s35152-022-0740-8

Mirhanoğlu, A., Loopmans, M. , & Özerol, G. (2022). Social Head-Enders: Access and Authority in Irrigation Governance. Society and Natural Resources, 35(2), 185-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2021.2009944

Bressers, H. T. A. , & Özerol, G. (2021). Supportive governance for climate resilient city strategies: Enabling practitioners to assess their context. Paper presented at ECPR General Conference 2021.

Mohammadzadeh, L., Ghanian, M., Shadkam, S. , Özerol, G., & Marzban, A. (2021). Application of a land use change model to guide regional planning and development in the south basin of the Urmia Lake, Iran. Environmental earth sciences, 80(17), [545]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-021-09837-7

Feenstra, M. H. (2021). Gender just energy policy: engendering the energy transition in Europe. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036551960

Hogeboom, R. J. , Borsje, B. W., Deribe, M. M. , van der Meer, F. D. , Mehvar, S. , Meyer, M. A. , Özerol, G. , Hoekstra, A. Y. , & Nelson, A. D. (2021). Resilience meets the water–energy–food nexus: Mapping the research landscape. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 1-18. [630395]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.630395

Feenstra, M. , & Özerol, G. (2021). Energy justice as a search light for gender-energy nexus: Towards a conceptual framework. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 138, [110668]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110668

Ossewaarde, R. , Filatova, T. , Georgiadou, Y. , Hartmann, A. , Özerol, G. , Pfeffer, K. , Stegmaier, P. , Torenvlied, R. , van der Voort, M. , Warmink, J. , & Borsje, B. (2021). Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change. Natural hazards and earth systems sciences discussions, 21(3), 1119–1133. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1119-2021

Baack, F. R. , Özerol, G. , Vinke - de Kruijf, J. , Halman, J. I. M. , & Kuks, S. M. M. (2020). Connecting Climate Change Adaptation with Other Policy Issues: A Comparative Case Study of two Municipalities in the Netherlands. Paper presented at ECPR General Conference Online 2020.

Clancy, J. , Özerol, G. , Mohlakoana, N. , Feenstra, M., & Sol Cueva, L. (2020). Engendering the Energy Transition: Setting the Scene. In Engendering the Energy Transition (pp. 3-9). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43513-4_1

Bressers, H. , & Özerol, G. (2020). Can Water Resilient City Strategies and Projects Be Realized in Practice? The Governance Assessment Tool. 1-21. Paper presented at ECPR General Conference Online 2020.

Dolman, N. , Lulofs, K. , Özerol, G., Bormann, H., Böge, M. , & Bressers, H. (2020). Transitie naar de waterbewuste stad: Omgaan met verstedelijking, waterbeheer en klimaatverandering. Water governance, (3), 37-44.

Schillinger, J. , Özerol, G., Güven-Griemert, S. , & Heldeweg, M. (2020). Water in war: Understanding the impacts of armed conflict on water resources and their management. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 7(6), [e1480]. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1480

Özerol, G., Dolman, N., Bormann, H. , Bressers, H. , Lulofs, K., & Böge, M. (2020). Urban water management and climate change adaptation: A self-assessment study by seven midsize cities in the North Sea Region. Sustainable Cities and Society, 55, [102066]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102066

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Gül is the project manager for the University of Twente in CATCH and C5a, EU Interreg projects on climate resilience in the North Sea Region; and the editor of Fanack Water, an online media platform on water issues in the Middle East and North Africa Region. Between 2013 and 2020 she has been the coordinator of the Palestinian-Dutch Academic Cooperation Programme on Water (PADUCO).

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