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Gül is an associate professor at the CSTM (Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability), University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her main research expertise is in comparative studies of water, energy and climate governance through actor-based and institutional analysis methods.
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Irrigated agriculture plays a significant role in global food security and poverty reduction. At the same time its negative impacts on water and land resources threaten environmental sustainability. With the objective of improving the understanding on the complexity of governing water resources for irrigated agriculture, this paper introduces the c...
This paper examines the relationship between farmer participation and environmental sustainability from an institutional perspective in the context of Harran Plain, one of the newest and largest irrigated areas in Turkey. Harran Plain undergoes social, economic and institutional change due to the expansion of large-scale irrigation and the establis...
Differences between women and men in their access to and use of energy services constitutes the core of gender-energy nexus research. In early 2010s, the concept of energy justice has emerged as a response to the need to address justice issues in energy access, use and policy making. However, the gender-energy nexus research lacks the conceptual ba...
This book brings together diverse contributions exploring the integration of gender equality in current national energy policies and international energy frameworks across the Global South and North. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this collection contributes to building a body of independent empirical evidence about the impacts of the energy...
Over the past several decades, gender-sensitive analysis of water use, management and governance has made significant contributions to the scholarly literature. This chapter aims to draw insights from this literature that can be relevant for engendering energy transitions. To this end, we follow three steps. First, we identify the meanings given to...
Effects of drought experience on farmers’ decisions and water management practices remains poorly understood, particularly in regions where drought is historically uncommon. This paper investigates how farmers’ decisions on sustainable water management practices are influenced by their drought experience. We reviewed the scientific literature on th...
The implementation of adaptation to climate change lags behind necessary adaptation. Implementation of adaptation often takes place at the local level, influenced by local factors and mechanisms producing mainstreamed or standalone adaptation outcomes. Because mainstreaming adaptation is seen as accelerating adaptation, understanding this process i...
Governments face increasing urgency to adapt to climate change. However, there is a persistent gap between needed and implemented adaptation. The implementation of adaptation often takes place at the local level, making municipalities crucial actors, particularly regarding mainstreaming adaptation into various sectors. While mainstreaming has the p...
In discussions of water management during conflict, non-state armed groups (NSAGs) primarily feature in relation to the strategic use of water resources to gain military or political advantage, but not as actors of civil governance within territories under their control. Given the humanitarian importance of water services, we study the role of NSAG...
Urban floods can cause significant damage and are expected to become more common due to climate change. Previous research has identified that climate change adaptation in cities requires the development of blue-green infrastructure (BGI), and it is expected that cities can leapfrog to a water-sensitive state by implementing BGI. However, leapfroggi...
Iran is experiencing rapid population growth coupled with the negative impacts of global warming and land-use change. These impacts pose significant challenges for water managers and planners trying to match supply and demand. The twin challenges of land use management and planning for climate change are exemplified in the case of Lake Urmia ¬– sit...
Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip irrigation as a socio-material assemblage and discusses the social and institutional changes triggered by the introduction of drip...
Farmers’ satisfaction with agricultural water management can be used as a measure of the fairness of water distribution and the performance of an irrigation scheme. Therefore, the assessment of farmers’ satisfaction in this respect could provide useful insights contributing to the sustainable governance of irrigation water. In this study, the popul...
There is a growing interest in systemic adaptation to climate change across all levels of governance. However, little knowledge exists on whether and how systemic adaptation or system approach works at local and sub-national levels. This paper aims to provide reflective and practical insights into this question based on empirical evidence from seve...
Armed conflicts disrupt social, environmental and economic processes. This includes water resources management and the provision of water services, with numerous implications for human security and environmental sustainability. Such impacts go beyond direct, immediately visible effects and can have far-reaching, long-term consequences. However, the...
The low-lying coastal areas of the countries around the North Sea are exposed to flooding and the influence of sea level rise. The countries in the North Sea Region need to continue to adapt if the associated risk is to be well-managed into the future. In addition to reducing flood risk, adaptation measures can bring development opportunities for t...
Vorgestellt wird ein webbasiertes Klimaanpassungstool zur Unterstützung mittelgroßer Städte im Nordseeraum für die Anpassung an den Klimawandel, bei dem Aspekte im Umgang mit Starkregen und Hochwasser im Vordergrund stehen. Es richtet sich an die kommunal Verantwortlichen und die Planenden. Eine Kombination aus Selbsteinschätzung und Hinweisen zum...
Inequalities in access are a major concern for the management of common pool resources. In the case of irrigation water, inequalities are often explained by spatial “head-ender/tail-ender” distinctions, determined by distance to the water source. However, inequalities in access are also produced by social relations and social institutions. Drawing...
Farmers have to make decisions to adapt to climate change and reduce environmental vulnerability. If these decisions are made incorrectly, irreversible changes can take place that threaten environmental, social and economic sustainability of agriculture. This study applies a land use change model to guide regional agricultural land use planning, wi...
How can we benchmark climate action and navigate in climate resiliency pathways? Inspired by the ‘Water Sensitive City’ approach, a www-based decision support tool (DST) is being developed in the EU-Interreg CATCH project that can primarily support small and medium-sized cities to become water sensitive and climate adaptive. Within the CATCH-projec...
The twofold aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of resilience research with regard to climate change in the social sciences and propose a research agenda. Resilience research among social scientists is characterized by much more diversity today than a few decades ago. Different definitions and understandings of resilien...
Resilience thinking is increasingly promoted to address some of the grand challenges of the 21st century: providing water, energy, and food to all, while staying within the limits of the Earth system that is undergoing (climate) change. Concurrently, a partially overlapping body of literature on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has emerged through...
Cities are experiencing the impacts of climate change through water-related disasters, while the sustainable management of water resources remains crucial for urban climate resilience. Accordingly, frameworks that integrate urban water management with climate change adaptation become increasingly relevant. The Water Sensitive Cities (WSC) framework...
This book is based on the Symposium ‘Engendering the Energy Transition’ which was held in November 2016 organised by the Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM) of the University of Twente, the Netherlands. The participants of the symposium represented the multidisciplinarity of the gender-energy nexus and included researc...
Armed conflict has the potential to disrupt water systems that are crucial to environmental and human wellbeing. Yet there is no comprehensive overview of scientific evidence on the impact of armed conflicts on water resources and their management. This paper assesses the relevant scientific evidence through a systematic literature review. We disce...
Cities are experiencing the impacts of climate change through water-related disasters, while the sustainable management of water resources remains crucial for urban climate resilience. Accordingly, frameworks that integrate urban water management with climate change adaptation become increasingly relevant. The Water Sensitive Cities (WSC) framework...
Abstract. Since the 1970s, Holling's socio-ecological systems (SES) approach has been a most predominant theoretical force in resilience research in the context of the climate crisis. From Holling's approach, however, two contrasting scientific approaches to resilience have developed, namely, naturalism and constructivism. While naturalist resilien...
This Special Issue aims to reflect on knowledge co-production and transdisciplinarity, exploring the mutual interaction between water governance and water research. We do so with contributions that bring examples from diverse parts of the world: Bolivia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Namibia, the Netherlands, Palestine, and South Africa. Key insights bro...
With the motivation to improve the understanding on the national and local levels of governance, this chapter focuses on the actors at these two levels, such as ministries, provincial and municipal authorities, and non‐governmental organizations (NGOs). It specifically aims to create insights into the involvement of these actors in the design, impl...
There is wide agreement that a nexus or integrated approach to managing and governing natural resources such as land, water, and energy can improve environmental, climate, human, and political security. However, few if any countries in the MENA region have made progress in implementing such an approach. There appear to be several constraints inhibi...
Die menschliche Besiedlung der Erde in den unterschiedlichsten Klimazonen ist ein Indiz dafür, dass der Mensch prinzipiell in der Lage ist, auch mit extremen Situationen wie Dürre und Flut umgehen zu können. Auch wenn durch den technischen Fortschritt das Risiko der Existenz-bedrohung durch das Klima heutzutage zumindest in Mitteleuropa vermeintlic...
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1566060
River basin management and decentralisation reforms are promoted worldwide for solving water pollution problems. In Mexico, governmental efforts have been made to operate wastewater treatment plants countrywide, but federal administrations have not achieved the...
Governance is key to tackling water challenges and transforming water management under the increasing pressures of competing water uses and climate change. Diverse water governance regimes have evolved in different countries and regions to regulate the development and management of water resources and the provision of water services. Scholars and p...
Transdisciplinary research offers a promising approach to development cooperation programs by integrating knowledge from academic and non-academic stakeholders, and from natural and social sciences. In the context of development research on water, there is little evidence on how stakeholder involvement takes place in the three stages of transdiscip...
All cities of the North Sea Region are faced with the growing impact and negative effects of climate change, whereas the responses of the cities to these challenges vary significantly. Inspiring examples are the cities of Rotterdam, Copenhagen and Hamburg, which already presented their climate adaptation plans. In the North Sea Region, 80% of the i...
Lack of wastewater treatment is among the main water problems worldwide. The implementation of wastewater treatment policies faces varying challenges given the many different contexts. Therefore, context-sensitive approaches are required from a governance perspective. This paper aims to improve the understanding of the role of contextual factors in...
Land cover has been changed by humans throughout history. At the
global level, population growth and socio-economic development have a
significant impact on land resources. Recently, scholars added climate change
as one of the major factors affecting land-cover transformation. In the West
Bank of Palestine, the situation is more complicated, where...
Water governance deals with the steering, organisation and guidance of water resources management. Alongside encouraging technical solutions, effective water governance addresses organisational, legal, financial, socioeconomic and political issues. This paper applies governance matrix, which was tailored to the local context of Palestine. Setting o...
Land cover has been changed by humans throughout history. At the global level, population growth and socio-economic development have a significant impact on land resources. Recently, scholars added climate change as one of the major factors affecting land-cover transformation. In the West Bank of Palestine, the situation is more complicated, where...
Water governance deals with the steering, organisation and guidance of water resources management. Alongside encouraging technical solutions, effective water governance addresses organisational, legal, financial, socioeconomic and political issues. This paper applies governance matrix, which was tailored to the local context of Palestine. Setting o...
Wastewater reuse in irrigation provides additional water supply for agriculture and saves freshwater resources for human consumption. Through these benefits, wastewater reuse can significantly alleviate the water scarcity in Palestine and fit to the complexity of the geopolitical context. However, the governance of reusing treated wastewater in Pal...
Wastewater reuse in irrigation provides additional water supply for agriculture and saves freshwater resources for human consumption. Through these benefits, wastewater reuse can significantly alleviate the water scarcity in Palestine and fit to the complexity of the geopolitical context. However, the governance of reusing treated wastewater in Pal...
Irrigated agriculture has a significant potential for food security and poverty reduction, while it is also associated with broader agri-environmental changes. These changes include agrarian change in terms of the intensification, globalization and neoliberalization of agriculture, and environmental change due to the pollution, degradation and expl...
Collaboration is increasingly seen as an important aspect of successful water management, and yet it remains insufficiently understood. This paper examines how collaboration is influenced by the governance system that guides and organizes the related actions and interactions. Building upon an existing governance assessment tool, this paper provides...
In this chapter, we will concentrate on the Dutch water authority of Vechtstromen, more specifically the region of Twente part of Vechtstromen. The Twente region has some 135,000 ha and about 630,000 inhabitants. Though most of the Netherlands is flat and the highly artificial system of waterways often enables to let water in from outside each regi...
Over the last decade, Europe’s drought management and policy has been characterized by a predominantly crisis-oriented approach. However, the widening gap between the impacts of drought episodes and the ability to prepare, manage and mitigate such droughts has motivated the European Union (EU) to make significant improvements that address drought m...
This chapter focuses on the Salland region of the Netherlands and presents our analysis regarding the role of governance context on the new irrigation policy of the Water Authority of Groot Salland (Waterschap Groot Salland—WGS). The irrigation policy was adopted in early 2013 by the five water authorities in the eastern Netherlands. Given the drou...
Agriculture is among the major water user sectors in the North-west Europe region. While the use of water for energy production, mainly for cooling of power plants, has a higher share in most of the countries in the region, agricultural water use maintains an average of 24 % share within the total water use in Europe. This chapter elaborates on the...
Wasserknappheit und Dürren sind auf dem Vormarsch und werden sich aufgrund des
Klimawandels voraussichtlich weiterhin verschärfen. Es sind dringend Maßnahmen
erforderlich, um sich auf diese Veränderungen vorzubereiten. Das Projekt ’Benefi t of
governance in DROught adaPtation (DROP)’ zielt darauf ab, die Region Nordwesteuropa
auf Perioden von Dürre...
Troeltzsch, Jenny; Ulf Stein, Rodrigo Vidaurre; Hans Bressers, Gül Özerol; Carina Furusho; Isabelle La Jeunesse (2015): Regional Governance Assessment for Drought Adaptation in North-West Europe: Case Study Results from the Analysis with a Governance Assessment Tool in the DROP-Project. In: Andreu, Joaquin; Solera, Abel; Paredes-Arquiola, Javier; H...
This book presents the key practice findings of the three pilots (Nature, Agriculture and
Freshwater) of the DROP project (benefit of governance in DROught adaPtation). In the
period 2012-2014, eleven organisations, both practice and science, have learned
from each other through cooperation in pilot actions and governance assessments,
to enhance th...
This document is explaining our Water Governance Assessment Tool and belongs to
the INTERREG IVb DROP project (“Benefit of governance in DROught adaPtation”).
First we will explain some background of the project and the tool. In Section 2 we will
unfold the general Governance Assessment Tool with its five dimensions and four
quality criteria. Secti...
This paper examines the relationship between farmer participation and environmental sustainability from an institutional perspective in the context of Harran Plain, one of the newest and largest irrigated areas in Turkey. Harran Plain undergoes social, economic and institutional change due to the expansion of large-scale irrigation and the establis...
Irrigated agriculture is a key policy issue in many countries since it is the major user of water and land resources while it also threatens environmental sustainability due to the overexploitation, degradation and pollution of water and soil resources. Given its cross-cutting, unstructured and relentless nature, the negative impact of irrigated ag...
Public participation (PP) is increasingly expected to enhance the effectiveness of water resources management. This is recognized in recent legislation such as the European Union Water Framework Directive. We identify five key constituents that affect the success of PP processes and which can be used as indicators thereof. These comprise: 1) the sc...
PROMETHEE is a powerful method, which can solve many multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems. It involves sophisticated preference modelling techniques but requires too much a priori precise information about parameter values (such as criterion weights and thresholds). In this paper, we consider a MCDM problem where alternatives are evalu...
Incorporation of the behavioral issues of the decision maker (DM) is among the aspects that each Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) method implicitly or explicitly takes into account. As postulated by regret theory, the feelings of regret and rejoice are among the behavioral issues associated with the entire decision making process. Within the co...
