Dries Hegger

Background

About Dries Hegger

Shaping Tomorrow’s Regions: thinking about water and climate in an integrated and future-proof way" Many sustainability challenges come down to a lack of scarce space. The energy transition requires space; climate change adaptation requires space; sustainable agriculture requires space. At the same time, space is needed for housing, travelling and amenities. Henceforth, spatial sustainability challenges can easily become politicized. All of us, in our capacity as a citizen, policymaker, politician entrepreneur, parent and so forth will be affected by sustainability transformations, both those ongoing and those forthcoming, in the years and decades to come. How can we improve societal decision-making in such a way that we maximize the solution space, but at the same time are enabled to reach fair and legitimate compromises once tough political choices are on the table? My research and teaching as Associate Professor Regional Water and Climate Governance focus on two specific contributions to this wide-ranging issue- citizen engagement in regional water- and climate governance - improved science-policy interactions through knowledge co-creation Do you want to know more about what my colleagues and I have discovered over the years, or explore possibilities for collaboration in teaching or research, please reach out (d.l.t.hegger@uu.nl).