Maarten Hajer
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Maarten A. Hajer is a Dutch political scientist and urban and regional planner. Since 1998, he has been a professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1 October 2008, he has been Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
(PBL).
Hajer is the author of many scientific publications. His latest book was published by the Oxford University Press: Authoritative Governance: Policy Making in the Age of Mediatization. Earlier publications include: The Politics of Environmental Discourse (Oxford, 1995); Living with Nature (Oxford 1999; editing together with Frank Fischer); In search of new public domain (Rotterdam, 2001, co-author Arnold Reijndorp); Deliberative Policy Analysis – Understanding Governance in the Network Society (Cambridge, 2003, editing together with Henk Wagenaar).
Besides being a scientist, Hajer also had a number of social appointments. As a member of the VROM-raad (the VROM-council of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment ) he was responsible for the advisory document on climate change as a structural spatial issue De Hype voorbij – klimaatverandering als structureel ruimtelijk vraagstuk (VROM-raad advice 060, 2007). In addition, he was a member of a programme committee on the Dutch Labour Party’s manifesto (led by Willem Witteveen). Furthermore, Hajer was a columnist for the Dutch newspapers Het Parool and De Staatscourant, and served as member of the jury for the International Spinoza Prize in Philosophy, the Dutch EO Weijers competition for landscape architecture, and for EUROPAN 9, the European award for young architects.
Maarten Hajer studied political science and urban and regional planning at the University of Amsterdam, and obtained his DPhil in politics from the Oxford University. In the early 1990s, he was employed by the University of Leiden as researcher at the Centre for Law and Public Policy. Between 1993 and 1996, he was a member of the scientific staff at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, working with sociologist Ulrich Beck. Following that, he became senior researcher at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), where he was project coordinator of the report on spatial development politics (‘Ruimtelijke ontwikkelingspolitiek’, WRR report no. 53 to the Dutch Cabinet, 1998).
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is a Dutch research institute that advises the Dutch government on environmental policy and regional planning issues. The research fields include sustainable development, energy and climate change, biodiversity, transport, land use, and air quality...
(PBL).
Hajer is the author of many scientific publications. His latest book was published by the Oxford University Press: Authoritative Governance: Policy Making in the Age of Mediatization. Earlier publications include: The Politics of Environmental Discourse (Oxford, 1995); Living with Nature (Oxford 1999; editing together with Frank Fischer); In search of new public domain (Rotterdam, 2001, co-author Arnold Reijndorp); Deliberative Policy Analysis – Understanding Governance in the Network Society (Cambridge, 2003, editing together with Henk Wagenaar).
Besides being a scientist, Hajer also had a number of social appointments. As a member of the VROM-raad (the VROM-council of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment ) he was responsible for the advisory document on climate change as a structural spatial issue De Hype voorbij – klimaatverandering als structureel ruimtelijk vraagstuk (VROM-raad advice 060, 2007). In addition, he was a member of a programme committee on the Dutch Labour Party’s manifesto (led by Willem Witteveen). Furthermore, Hajer was a columnist for the Dutch newspapers Het Parool and De Staatscourant, and served as member of the jury for the International Spinoza Prize in Philosophy, the Dutch EO Weijers competition for landscape architecture, and for EUROPAN 9, the European award for young architects.
Maarten Hajer studied political science and urban and regional planning at the University of Amsterdam, and obtained his DPhil in politics from the Oxford University. In the early 1990s, he was employed by the University of Leiden as researcher at the Centre for Law and Public Policy. Between 1993 and 1996, he was a member of the scientific staff at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, working with sociologist Ulrich Beck. Following that, he became senior researcher at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), where he was project coordinator of the report on spatial development politics (‘Ruimtelijke ontwikkelingspolitiek’, WRR report no. 53 to the Dutch Cabinet, 1998).