Biography
**Wouter Spekkink is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Public Administration and Sociology since September 1st, 2019.** Wouter's research focuses primarily on complex governance processes around sustainability issues. He wrote his PhD thesis on the emergence of public-private collaborations for the development of sustainable industrial clusters. Recent studies have focused on grassroots activities related to circular economy and sustainability more broadly, as well as interactive governance processes around climate policy. Wouter's work has also covered graph-theoretical methodologies for the investigation of complex social processes. He has recently developed a decicated software suite that facilitates in the application of this approach. Wouter teaches various courses on topics related to governance. He also coordinates the Dutch master specialization on Governance and Management of Complex Systems.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant professor | Governance and Pluralism
- spekkink@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- jerico Bakhuis, Jaco Quist, Wouter Spekkink, Thomas Hoppe & Kornelis Blok (2025) - Mapping the hydrogen transition in the Netherlands: A sociotechnical multi-system event sequence analysis - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 56 - doi: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100999
- Erik Hans Klijn, Joop Koppenjan, Wouter Spekkink & Rianne Warsen (2025) - Governance Networks in the Public Sector. Second edition - doi: 10.4324/9781003402138 - [link]
- Joop Koppenjan, Jitske Verkerk, Joëlle van der Meer, Catherine Vroon, Wouter Spekkink & Michael Duijn (2024) - Het gebruik van het Beleidskompas binnen de Rijksoverheid: Ontwikkeling evaluatiekader en eerste evaluatie Beleidskompas
- Julia De Koning, Mariangela Lavanga & Wouter Spekkink (2024) - Exploring the clothing overconsumption of young adults: An experimental study with communication interventions - Journal of Cleaner Production, 467 - doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142970 - [link]
- Wouter Spekkink & Peter Marks (2023) - Bouwen aan een lerend partnerschap
- Steffen Böhm, Chia-Hao Ho, Helen Holmes, Constantine Manolchev, Malte B. Rödl & Wouter Spekkink (2023) - Circular society activism: prefigurative communities in everyday Circular Economy action - doi: 10.1515/9783110723373-017 - [link]
- Wouter Spekkink, Ingmar van Meerkerk & José Nederhand (2023) - Contributors to tensions in relationships between community initiatives and municipalities in the Netherlands: Evidence from 16 case studies
- Wouter Spekkink, Malte Rödl & Martin Charter (2022) - Repair Cafés and Precious Plastic as translocal networks for the circular economy - Journal of Cleaner Production, 380 - doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135125 - [link]
- Wouter Spekkink, José Nederhand & Ingmar van Meerkerk (2022) - Samen koersen op publieke waarde: Spanningen en best practices in het samenspel tussen burgerinitiatieven en gemeenten
- Malte B. Rödl, Frank Boons & Wouter Spekkink (2022) - From responsible to responsive innovation: A systemic and historically sensitive approach to innovation processes - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 174 - doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121231 - [link]
- Fjalar J. de Haan, Alfonso MartĂnez Arranz & Wouter Spekkink (2019) - Data-driven transitions research: Methodological considerations for event-based analysis - doi: 10.4324/9780429056574-12 - [link]
- U Pesch, Wouter Spekkink & J N Quist (2019) - Local Sustainability Initiatives: Innovation and Civic Engagement in Societal Experiments - European Planning Studies, 27 (2), 300-317 - doi: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1464549 - [link]
- M Mock, I Omann, C Polzin, Wouter Spekkink, J Schuler, V Pandur, A Brizi & A Panno (2019) - “Something inside me has been set in motion”: Exploring the psychological wellbeing of people engaged in sustainability initiatives - Ecological Economics, 160, 1-11 - doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.002 - [link]
- M Rui & Wouter Spekkink (2018) - A Running Start or a Clean Slate? How a History of Cooperation Affects the Ability of Cities to Cooperate on Environmental Governance - Sustainability, 10 (6) - doi: 10.3390/su10061950 - [link]
- Wouter Spekkink (2018) - BDLG Matrix Converter [open source] - doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1305188 - [link]
- A Fischer, Wouter Spekkink & C Polzin (2018) - Social representations of governance for change towards sustainability: perspectives of sustainability advocates - Environmental Politics, 27 (4), 621-643 - doi: 10.1080/09644016.2018.1448559 - [link]
- Li Sun, Wouter Spekkink, E Cuppen & G Korevaar (2017) - Coordination of industrial symbiosis through anchoring - Sustainability, 9 (4) - doi: 10.3390/su9040549 - [link]
- B Sprecher, I Daigo, Wouter Spekkink, Melissa Vos, R Kleijn, S Murakami & GJ Kramer (2017) - Novel indicators for the quantification of resilience in critical material supply chains - Environmental Science & Technology, 51 (7), 3860-3870 - doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05751 - [link]
- Wouter Spekkink (2016) - Industrial symbioses as a social process: Developing theory and methods for the longitudinal investicatigation of social dynamics i nthe emergence and development of industrail symbiosis - [link]
2.2C Network Governance
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWB-2021
4.3 Thesis/researchproject Master GMCS
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-3050
4.3 Internship Master GMCS
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-3100
4.4 Governance
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-BM1040
Collaboration Ateliers: B&P, GMCS, MHRV
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-9000
2.1 Network Governance
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-BC2010
4.1 Dynamics of Complex Systems
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-3143
