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2667
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Maarten Hajer is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research focus spans multiple fields primarily within Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant portion of their work engaging subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Education, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to sustainability and climate governance, encompassing areas like Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, Social and Cultural Dynamics, and Management and Organizational Studies.

Maarten Hajer has published in a variety of academic venues, with frequent publications in Futures, SSRN Electronic Journal, European Journal of Social Theory, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, and Energy Research & Social Science. These platforms reflect Hajer's interdisciplinary approach and involvement in frontier discussions on environmental and social transformations.

Several recent papers illustrate Hajer's research interests and thematic focus. They include:

  • "Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative," 2021, European Journal of Social Theory
  • "Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970," 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • "Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non-use agreement," 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Futures literacy and the diversity of the future," 2021, Futures
  • "A new urban narrative for sustainable development," 2022, Nature Sustainability

Hajer has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, highlighting ongoing research partnerships. These frequent co-authors include Jesse Hoffman, Jeroen Oomen, Peter Pelzer, Lisette van Beek, and Detlef P. van Vuuren.

Best Publications

  • The argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning

    Frank Fischer;John Forester;Maarten A. Hajer;Robert Hoppe

  • Deliberative policy analysis : understanding governance in the network society

    Maarten A. Hajer;Hendrik Wagenaar

  • A decade of discourse analysis of environmental politics: Achievements, challenges, perspectives

    Maarten Hajer;Wytske Versteeg

  • Discourse Coalitions and the Institutionalization of Practice: The Case of Acid Rain in Great Britain

    Maarten A. Hajer

  • Policy without polity? Policy analysis and the institutional void

    Maarten Hajer

  • Authoritative Governance: Policy Making in the Age of Mediatization

    Maarten A Hajer

  • Doing Discourse Analysis: Coalitions, Practices, Meaning

    M.A. Hajer

  • Coalitions, Practices, and Meaning in Environmental Politics: From Acid Rain to BSE

    Maarten A. Hajer

  • Beyond Cockpit-ism: Four Insights to Enhance the Transformative Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Maarten Hajer;Måns Nilsson;Kate Raworth;Peter Bakker

  • In search of new public domain : analysis and strategy

    Maarten A. Hajer;Arnold Reijndorp

  • Setting the Stage: A Dramaturgy of Policy Deliberation

    Maarten A. Hajer

  • Spatial Planning in the Network Society-Rethinking the Principles of Planning in the Netherlands

    Maarten Hajer;Wil Zonneveld

  • Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative:

    Jeroen Oomen;Jesse Hoffman;Maarten A. Hajer

  • Ordering through Discourse

    Maarten Hajer;David Laws

  • discourse analysis and the study of policy making

    Maarten Hajer

  • A frame in the fields: Policy making and the re-invention of politics

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  • Performing Governance Through Networks

    Maarten Hajer;Wytske Versteeg

  • Rebuilding Ground Zero. The Politics of Performance

    Maarten A. Hajer

  • Ecological modernisation as cultural politics

    Maarten A. Hajer

  • Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970

    Lisette van Beek;Maarten Hajer;Peter Pelzer;Detlef van Vuuren;Detlef van Vuuren

  • 2050—An Energetic Odyssey: Understanding ‘Techniques of Futuring’ in the transition towards renewable energy

    Maarten A. Hajer;Peter Pelzer

  • Democracy in the Risk Society? Learning from the New Politics of Mobility in Munich

    Maarten Hajer;Sven Kesselring

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
John Grin
John Grin University of Amsterdam
Rob Raven
Rob Raven Monash University
Frank Fischer
Frank Fischer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Måns Nilsson
Måns Nilsson Stockholm Environment Institute
Frans Berkhout
Frans Berkhout King's College London
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Arthur C. Petersen
Arthur C. Petersen University College London
Les Levidow
Les Levidow The Open University

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