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prof.dr. J.T.A. Bressers (Hans)

Full Professor
BMS-TPS-CSTM
j.t.a.bressers@utwente.nl
+31534893195
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Prof.dr. Hans Th.A. Bressers (1953) is emeritus professor of Policy Studies and Envi­ronmental Policy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and founder of the CSTM, the Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, one of the departments of the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences. Previously he has been, inter alia, vice-chairman of the official permanent Evaluation Committee of the Environmental Management Act, chairman of the Advisory Committee on the local implementation of environmental policy, independent scientific member of the Committee on Sustainable Development of the Dutch Social Economic Council (SER) and a member of the national Advisory Committee on Water that was chaired by the Prince of Orange until 2013 when he became king.

In over three hundred articles, chapters, and books and a similar number of reports, conference papers and presentations (both in Dutch and in English) he published on policy -evaluati­on, - instru­ments, -networks, and -implementati­on, mostly applied on envi­ron­mental and sustainability oriented 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, national priority research programmes, Dutch ministries, etc. As a PhD advisor, he has led 60 researchers to their graduation until 2020.

Expertise

  • Social Sciences

    • Policy
    • Governance
    • Water
    • Project
    • Evaluation

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

    • Management
    • Enterprise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Investigation

Organisations

Recent research focuses on the implementation of sustainability oriented policies, like on water management and climate adaptation, and the governance conditions that can be supportive or restrictive for such implementation. 

Publications

2024

Developing SATIN, a Sustainability Assessment Tool for Textile Industry (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 3rd Sustainable Textile and Fashion Congress, STFC 2024. Lujan Ornelas, C., Franco-Garcia, M.-L., Heldeweg, M. & Bressers, H.Networks and Water Policy: Conclusions and Implications for Research (2024)In Networks for Water Policy: A Comparative Perspective (pp. 197-217). Taylor & Francis. Bressers, H. & O'Toole, L. J.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003463375-8

2023

Enhancing the resilience of midsize cities to climate extremes: A tool for practitioners to assess their governance context (2023)Total Environment Research Themes, 8. Article 100080. Özerol, G. & Bressers, H.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.totert.2023.100080Inclusive educational practices in rural communities of the Yucatan Peninsula (2023)International journal of education humanities and social science, 6(6), 125-145. Osorio Vázquez, M. C. & Bressers, H. T. A.https://doi.org/10.54922/IJEHSS.2023.0616Governance Assessment of Community-Based Waste Reduction Program in Makassar (2023)Sustainability (Switzerland), 15(19). Article 14371. Latanna, M. D., Gunawan, B., Franco-García, M. L. & Bressers, H.https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914371Industrial Parks for People and Planet: Assessing their contribution to sustainable regional development (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Kreiner, I.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556958Challenges to implementing a sustainable strategic evaluation framework of industrial parks: Mexican case (2023)Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 13. Article 100612. Kreiner, I., Bressers, H. T. A. & Franco-García, M. L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2023.100612Propuestas para incentivar la reintegración escolar de adolescentes mayas del medio rural al sistema educativo nacional (2023)iMex, 12(24), 36-49. Osorio Vázquez, M. C. & Bressers, H. T. A.https://doi.org/10.23692/iMex.24.3

2022

Testing the contextual Interaction theory in a UHC pilot district in South Africa (2022)BMC health services research, 22(1). Article 343. Michel, J., Mohlakoana, N., Bärnighausen, T., Tediosi, F., Evans, D., McIntyre, D., Bressers, H. T. A. & Tanner, M.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07705-zClimate change resilience and supporting governance conditions (2022)[Contribution to conference › Paper] World Town Planning Day 2022. Bressers, H. T. A.

Other contributions

Bressers, H., L. J. O’Toole, & J. Richardson, (Eds.) (1995). Networks and water policy: A comparative perspective. London: Frank Cass. [also published as special issue of Environmental Politics, 3(4), Winter 1994].

Bressers, H., & S. M. Kuks (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. (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., & S. M. Kuks, (Eds.) (2004). Integrated governance and water basin management: Conditions for regime change towards sustainability. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Bressers, H. & K. Lulofs, (eds) (2010). Governance and Complexity in Water Management, Creating Cooperation through Boundary Spanning, Edward Elgar/IWA.

Boer, C. de, and H. Bressers (2011), Complex and dynamic implementation processes: Analyzing the renaturalization of the Dutch Regge river, Book, Enschede: University of Twente and The Hague: Dutch Water Governance Centre.

Boer, C. De, J. Vinke-de Kruijf, G. Özerol, H. Bressers (Eds.) (2013) Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer: International Studies on Contextual Water Management. Oxford UK, New York USA: Earthscan – Routledge.

Bressers, H., N. Bressers (Eds.) (2015), Governance Assessment Guide, DROP project, Almelo.

Bressers, H., N. Bressers, C. Larrue (Eds.) (2016), Governance for Drought Resilience: Land and Water Drought Management in Europe, Dordrecht, Berlin: Springer

Research profiles

Teaching concentrates on environmental policy (both in the MEEM and PA masters) and research methodology (MEEM master). 

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Apart from the numerous PhD projects that are supervised, as a researcher several projects have been and are contributed to, sponsored by national and international research programs. 

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