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John Grin is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily addresses environmental science, with a focus on sustainability and climate change governance. Their work also engages with health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, pharmaceutical economics and policy, complex systems and decision making, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, policy transfer and learning, and infrastructure resilience and vulnerability analysis.

Their recent publications reflect diverse interests within these fields. Notable papers include:

  • 'Doing' system innovations from within the heart of the regime, 2020, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
  • Politics of complexity: Conceptualizing agency, power and powering in the transitional dynamics of complex adaptive systems, 2020, Research Policy
  • Integrating Empirical Analysis and Normative Inquiry in Health Technology Assessment: The Values in Doing Assessments of Health Technologies Approach, 2022, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • Understanding the role of government in sustainability transitions: A conceptual lens to analyse the Dutch gas quake case, 2023, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition, 2024, Energy Research & Social Science

Frequent co-authors in their research include Gert Jan van der Wilt, Bart Bloemen, Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Laura Sampietro-Colom, and Pietro Refolo. Collaboration with these researchers appears consistently across multiple publications.

The scientist often publishes in venues such as the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, SSRN Electronic Journal, Research Policy, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

The research spans key subfields like global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, general health professions, management science and operations research, and political science and international relations.

Best Publications

  • Innovation studies and sustainability transitions: the allure of the multi-level perspective and its challenges

    Adrian Smith;Jan-Peter Voß;John Grin

  • Transitions to Sustainable Development: New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

    John Grin;Jan Rotmans;Johan Schot

  • Introduction: From persistent problems to system innovations and transitions

    John Grin;Jan Rotmans;Johan Schot

  • Designing long-term policy: rethinking transition management

    Jan-Peter Voß;Adrian Smith;John Grin

  • The politics of sustainability transitions

    Flor Avelino;John Grin;Bonno Pel;Shivant S.S. Jhagroe

  • Contextualizing Reflexive Governance: the Politics of Dutch Transitions to Sustainability

    Carolyn M. Hendriks;John Grin

  • Facing global environmental change: environmental, human, energy, food, health and water security concepts

    H.G. Brauch;Ú. Oswald Spring;J. Grin;C. Mesjasz

  • Vision assessment : shaping technology in 21st century society towards a repertoire for technology assessment

    John Grin;Armin Grunwald

  • Technology assessment as learning

    John Grin;Henk van de Graaf

  • Theories of Policy Learning: Agency, Structure, and Change

    John Grin;Anne Loeber

  • Technology Assessment through interaction. A guide

    J. Grin;H. van de Graaf;R. Hoppe

  • Practices for reflexive design: lessons from a Dutch programme on sustainable agriculture

    John Grin;Francisca Felix;Bram Bos;Sierk Spoelstra

  • Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security

    Hans Günter Brauch;Úrsula Oswald Spring;Czeslaw Mesjasz;John Grin

  • Vision assessment: shaping technology in 21st century society

    John Grin;Armin Grunwald

  • On patterns and agency in transition dynamics: some key insights from the KSI programme

    John Grin;Jan Rotmans;Johan Schot

  • Globalization and environmental challenges: reconceptualizing security in the 21st century

    H.G. Brauch;Ú. Oswald Spring;C. Mesjasz;J. Grin

  • Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security: threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks

    H.G. Brauch;Ú. Oswald Spring;C. Mesjasz;J. Grin

  • Climate change adaptation in European river basins

    Patrick Huntjens;Claudia Pahl-Wostl;John Grin

  • The practical value of theory: Conceptualising learning in the pursuit of a sustainable development

    A.M.C. Loeber;B.C. van Mierlo;J. Grin;C. Leeuwis

  • The Interactive State: Democratisation from Above?

    Tjitske Akkerman;Maarten Hajer;John Grin

  • Stimulating transitions towards sustainable farming systems

    Boelie Elzen;Marc Barbier;Marc Barbier;Marianne Cerf;Marianne Cerf;John Grin

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Schot
Johan Schot Utrecht University
Jacqueline E. W. Broerse
Jacqueline E. W. Broerse Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Maarten Hajer
Maarten Hajer Utrecht University
Cees Leeuwis
Cees Leeuwis Wageningen University & Research
Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg
Bjørn Hofmann
Bjørn Hofmann University of Oslo
Joern Birkmann
Joern Birkmann University of Stuttgart
Derk Loorbach
Derk Loorbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford

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