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Overview

Dave Huitema is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research spans the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, public administration, building and construction, global and planetary change, and economics and econometrics.

The primary topics of Huitema's work include:

  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Mining and Resource Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Huitema has published scholarly articles in several venues, including:

  • Policy Studies Journal
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • Critical Policy Studies
  • Ecology and Society

Recent published papers by Huitema's group include:

  • "The Roles of Experts and Expert-Based Information in the Advocacy Coalition Framework: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations Based on the Acid Mine Drainage Case Study in Gauteng, South Africa" (2020, Policy Studies Journal)
  • "The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue" (2024, Global Environmental Politics)
  • "Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa's acid mine drainage policy problem" (2022, Critical Policy Studies)
  • "How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature" (2025, Ecology and Society)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Huitema include:

  • Nikki Funke
  • Arthur C. Petersen
  • S Nienaber
  • Paul Tobin
  • Elke Kellner

Huitema's work addresses interdisciplinary themes across governance, policy frameworks, environmental sustainability, and discursive analysis. The focus on acid mine drainage policy and circular economy governance reflects a concern with resource management and environmental impacts.

Best Publications

  • Adaptive water governance: assessing the institutional prescriptions of adaptive (co-)management from a governance perspective and defining a research agenda.

    Dave Huitema;Erik Mostert;Wouter Egas;Sabine Moellenkamp

  • Emergence of polycentric climate governance and its future prospects

    Andrew J. Jordan;Dave Huitema;Dave Huitema;Mikael Hilden;Harro Van Asselt

  • The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance

    T.H. Morrison;W.N. Adger;K. Brown;M.C. Lemos

  • Governing climate change : Polycentricity in Action?

    A. Jordan;D. Huitema;H.D. van Asselt

  • Realizing water transitions : The role of policy entrepreneurs in water policy change

    Dave Huitema;Sander Meijerink

  • Policy entrepreneurs and change strategies: lessons from sixteen case studies of water transitions around the globe

    Sander Meijerink;Dave Huitema

  • Innovations in climate policy: the politics of invention, diffusion, and evaluation

    Andrew Jordan;Dave Huitema

  • Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?

    A. Jordan;D. Huitema;H.D. van Asselt;T. Rayner

  • Experiments in climate governance – A systematic review of research on energy and built environment transitions

    Paula Kivimaa;Paula Kivimaa;Mikael Hildén;Dave Huitema;Dave Huitema;Andrew Jordan

  • Policy innovation in a changing climate: Sources, patterns and effects

    Andrew Jordan;Dave Huitema;Dave Huitema

  • Learning effects of interactive decision-making processes for climate change adaptation

    Julia Baird;Ryan Plummer;Ryan Plummer;Constanze Haug;Dave Huitema;Dave Huitema

  • Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States

    Nicolas W. Jager;Edward Challies;Elisa Kochskämper;Jens Newig

  • Mitigation and adaptation in polycentric systems: sources of power in the pursuit of collective goals

    Tiffany H. Morrison;W. Neil Adger;Katrina Brown;Maria Carmen Lemos

  • The regional governance of climate adaptation: A framework for developing legitimate, effective, and resilient governance arrangements

    Catrien C. J. A. M. Termeer;Art Dewulf;Helena Van Rijswick;Arwin Van Buuren

  • Climate policy innovation:The adoption and diffusion of adaptation policies across Europe

    Eric Massey;Robbert Biesbroek;Dave Huitema;Andy Jordan

  • Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations: the role of social justice

    James J. Patterson;James J. Patterson;Thomas Thaler;Matthew Hoffmann;Sara Hughes

  • Understanding the paradoxes of multi-level governing: Climate change policy in the European Union

    Andrew Jordan;Harro van Asselt;Frans Berkhout;Dave Huitema

  • The governance of adaptation: choices, reasons, and effects. Introduction to the Special Feature

    Dave Huitema;William Neil Adger;Frans Berkhout;Eric Massey

  • The evaluation of climate policy: theory and emerging practice in Europe

    Dave Huitema;Andrew Jordan;Eric Massey;Tim Rayner

  • Water policy entrepreneurs : a research companion to water transitions around the globe

    Dave Huitema;Sander V. Meijerink

  • Research, part of a Special Feature on New Methods for Adaptive Water Management Adaptive Water Governance: Assessing the Institutional Prescriptions of Adaptive (Co-)Management from a Governance Perspective and Defining a Research Agenda

    Dave Huitema;Erik Mostert;Wouter Egas;Sabine Moellenkamp

  • Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on Realizing Water Transitions: The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Water Policy Change Realizing water transitions: the role of policy entrepreneurs in water policy change

    Dave Huitema;Sander Meijerink

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Frans Berkhout
Frans Berkhout King's College London
Laurens M. Bouwer
Laurens M. Bouwer Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ryan Plummer
Ryan Plummer Brock University
Paula Kivimaa
Paula Kivimaa University of Sussex
Catrien J.A.M. Termeer
Catrien J.A.M. Termeer Wageningen University & Research
Jens Newig
Jens Newig Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Derek Armitage
Derek Armitage University of Waterloo
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University

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