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Esther Turnhout is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, focusing particularly on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the scientist engages with a range of topics related to environmental governance and sustainability.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions

Esther Turnhout frequently publishes in Environmental Science & Policy, with six publications, followed by Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability and Geoforum, both with three publications each. They have also contributed to Conservation Biology and Conservation and Society.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Esther Turnhout include:

  • "Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism," 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • "Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development," 2021, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability," 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Co-producing the science-policy interface: towards common but differentiated responsibilities," 2022, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • "A better knowledge is possible: Transforming environmental science for justice and pluralism," 2024, Environmental Science & Policy

Collaboration forms an important part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Jelle Behagel, Pamela McElwee, Eszter Kelemen, Michelle Lim, and Joachim H. Spangenberg.

Best Publications

  • The politics of co-production: participation, power, and transformation

    Esther Turnhout;Tamara Metze;Carina Wyborn;Carina Wyborn;Nicole Klenk

  • Ecological Indicators: between the two fires of science and policy

    Esther Turnhout;Matthijs Hisschemöller;Herman Eijsackers

  • To co-produce or not to co-produce

    Maria Carmen Lemos;James C. Arnott;Nicole M. Ardoin;Kristin Baja

  • How participation creates citizens: participatory governance as performative practice.

    Esther Turnhout;Severine Van Bommel;Noelle Aarts

  • Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism

    Unai Pascual;Unai Pascual;William M. Adams;William M. Adams;Sandra Myrna Díaz;Sandra Myrna Díaz;Sharachchandra Lele

  • New roles of science in society: Different repertoires of knowledge brokering

    Esther Turnhout;Marian Stuiver;Judith Klostermann;Bette Harms

  • Rethinking biodiversity: from goods and services to “living with”

    Esther Turnhout;Claire Waterton;Katja Neves;Marleen Buizer

  • Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise. The Cases of the IPCC and the IPBES.

    Silke Beck;Maud Borie;Jason Chilvers;Alejandro Esguerra

  • Measurementality’ in biodiversity governance: knowledge, transparency, and the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

    Esther Turnhout;Katja Neves;Elisa de Lijster

  • Technical knowledge, discursive spaces and politics at the science - policy interface

    Anna Wesselink;Karen S. Buchanan;Yola Georgiadou;Esther Turnhout

  • Conservation policy: Listen to the voices of experience

    Esther Turnhout;Bob Bloomfield;Mike Hulme;Johannes Vogel

  • In pursuit of carbon accountability: the politics of REDD+ measuring, reporting and verification systems

    Aarti Gupta;Eva Lövbrand;Esther Turnhout;Marjanneke J Vijge

  • Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development

    Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers;Jona Razzaque;Pamela McElwee;Esther Turnhout

  • What does policy-relevant global environmental knowledge do? The cases of climate and biodiversity

    Esther Turnhout;Art Dewulf;Michael Hulme

  • Envisioning REDD+ in a post-Paris era: between evolving expectations and current practice

    Esther Turnhout;Aarti Gupta;Janice Weatherley-Singh;Marjanneke J. Vijge

  • The effectiveness of boundary objects: the case of ecological indicators

    Esther Turnhout

  • Participation and inclusiveness in the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    I. Díaz-Reviriego;E. Turnhout;S. Beck

  • The politics of environmental knowledge

    Esther Turnhout

  • Science in Wadden Sea policy: from accommodation to advocacy

    Esther Turnhout;Matthijs Hisschemöller;Herman Eijsackers

  • Working at the science–policy interface: a discursive analysis of boundary work at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

    Dave Huitema;Esther Turnhout

Frequent Co-Authors

Bas Arts
Bas Arts Wageningen University & Research
Joachim H. Spangenberg
Joachim H. Spangenberg Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research
Eva Lövbrand
Eva Lövbrand Linköping University
Jennifer Clapp
Jennifer Clapp University of Waterloo
Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson University of Surrey
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Margaret Skutsch
Margaret Skutsch National Autonomous University of Mexico
Arjen E. J. Wals
Arjen E. J. Wals Wageningen University & Research
Rolf Lidskog
Rolf Lidskog Örebro University

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