Anna Wesselink
Associate
Anna is a Research Officer at the School of Earth and Environment| at the University of Leeds.
Anna is exploring how decision making in natural resource management integrates different kinds of expertise in the context of policies and politics.
Background
Anna studied tropical land and water management at Wageningen Unversity and research centre in the Netherlands. Her PhD research was at Twente University, where she looked at the way knowledge input influences decision making in water resources management. She studied the ways the problems are framed in these processes of (social) learning and negotiation.
Anna has since gained 11 years professional experience as a hydrologist in water resource research and practice.
Research interests
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Social studies of science/scientists, specifically with respect to inter- and transdisciplinary research for natural resources management;
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Studies of policy making and implementation, planning, regulation and governance;
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Water management and/or biodiversity management.
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