Marjolein B. A. van Asselt’s research while affiliated with Maastricht University and other places

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Publications (73)


Integrative Policymaking for the Improvement of the Quality of Urban Life
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June 2019

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5 Citations

Nicole Rijkens-Klomp

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Marjolein B.A. van Asselt

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Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Research: What Risks Get Researched, Where and How?
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November 2018

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Risk Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy

This review article maps the shifts and trends in the risk literature regarding particular risk types across the past 30þ years. Not only does it address which hazards and risks receive scholarly attention, but also from which perspective. A similar review on crisis literature (Kuipers & Welsh, 2017) reported that on average only 14 percent of the articles in three crisis and disaster journals pertained explicitly to risk research. Does risk research perhaps pay more attention to crises than the other way around? Our multivariate regression analysis of the different types and themes reveals how some risk types are researched and discussed almost exclusively from a particular angle. Also, the large majority of articles from some perspectives only take a limited variety of risks into account. Mapping risk research indicates not only which topics and themes have received increasing or structural attention but also which ones, or which combination of risk types and perspectives, perhaps deserve more study than they currently receive.

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Safety in international security: a view point from the practice of accident investigation

July 2018

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Contemporary Security Policy

While security points to a deliberate harming of humans and/or the environment, safety refers to unintended damage. In this view point, I will analyse how the distinction between safety and security matters in the practice of accident investigation and I will argue that the division between the fields is problematic for the assessment of security-related safety risks. Drawing on the case of the our accident investigation into the downing of flight MH17 above Ukraine in 2014, I highlight key dilemmas the Dutch Safety Board dealt with.




Some Reflections on EU Governance of Critical Infrastructure Risks

December 2015

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European Journal of Risk Regulation

Critical infrastructure (CI) sees to assets that are essential for the functioning of a society and economy, as they provide public services, enhance quality of life, sustain private profits and spur economic growth. Assets of CI differ considerably, ranging from hardware such as cables and wires, through to networks for the generation and supply of energy sources. Critical infrastructures encompass many sectors of the economy, such as banking and finance, transport and distribution, energy, utilities, health, food supply and communications, aswell as key government services.




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Healthy Decisions: Towards Uncertainty Tolerance in Healthcare Policy

August 2014

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PharmacoEconomics


The reality of precaution: comparing risk regulation in the United States and Europe, edited by J.B. Wiener et al., RFF Press, 2011

November 2013

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Citations (52)


... Participatory modelling has evolved from a number of different fields; the term 'participatory modelling' came from the field of integrated assessment (Rotmans and van Asselt, 2002;van de Kerkhof, 2004;Alizadeh et al., 2022), while 'group model building' developed in the system dynamics community (Richardson and Andersen, 1995;Vennix, 1996;Stave, 2002). Participatory modelling methods encourage stakeholder appreciation for a model's limitations; this also helps to ensure that the model is customized to their needs. ...

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Climate variability in agroecosystems: A quantitative assessment of stakeholder-defined policies for enhanced socio-ecological resilience
Integrated assessment: current practices and challenges for the future
  • Citing Chapter
  • October 2002

... Plural rationalities postulate four distinct social and cultural forms (worldviews) that explain much of the wide variety of ways that people experience, interpret, and respond to risk. In addition to allowing us to link our analytics to a previously conducted stakeholder process, plural rationalities also proves useful in this study because it highlights the often persistent and unavoidable disagreement on the framing of many problems involving risk, has been used to address wicked problems by identifying clumsy solutions that contain elements of different worldviews Verweij et al., 2006), and has been used to represent multiple worldviews in previous modeling studies ( van Asselt & Rotmans, 1997. While there exists debate over the extent to which plural rationalities is the best framework for organizing differing perspectives on risk (Cherry, Kallbekken, & Kroll, 2017;Douglas & Wildavsky, 1983;Renn, 2008;Stern, Dietz, Abel, Guagnano, & Kalof, 1999), we expect that this study's analytic tools should be adaptable to a wide range of worldview taxonomies. ...

Uncertainties in perspective
  • Citing Chapter
  • October 1997

... After the Brundtland Report (WCED, 1987) and the 1992 Rio World Conference on Environment and Development, a second ''wave'' of global scenarios was launched in the context of the sustainability challenge. Some were model-based, and focusing on one issue such as climate change (Rotmans, 1990, Rotmans et al., 1994, but also broader efforts were undertaken, such as the updated work of Meadows et al. (1992) and new integrated studies on such themes as climate change, water scarcity, public health, and landuse (Rotmans and de Vries, 1997). The IPCC series of greenhouse gas emissions scenarios studies became successively more sophisticated (IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), 1990; Leggett et al, 1992;Nakicenovic and Swart, 2000). ...

Towards integrated assessment of global change
  • Citing Chapter
  • October 1997

... How does this relate to the issue of climate change and climate-simulation uncertainty? The targets researchers have produced nine scenarios for climate change (see den Elzen et al. 1997). When the egalitarian world view is combined with either the individualist or the hierarchist management style, one finds that the upper limit for the co 2 concentration according to the egalitarian world view (450 ppmv, or 'particles per million by volume', meaning 450 co 2 molecules in 1 million air molecules; the preindustrial concentration was 280 ppmv) will be seriously exceeded from 2050 onwards. ...

Human disturbance of the global biogeochemical cycles
  • Citing Chapter
  • October 1997

... Some authors (Goh et al., 2016;Karakiewicz & Bos, 2016;Pott, 2007;Rijkens-Klomp et al., 2003) have applied systems theory to cities or their related Entities. Goh has emphasized that through this transfer, it is possible to focus also on the interactions between individuals and their consequences for the urban fabric (Goh et al., 2016). ...

Integrative Policymaking for the Improvement of the Quality of Urban Life
  • Citing Chapter
  • June 2019

... Further, the rapid deployment of measures to correct risk-induced TTC disruption, underperformance, and failure could exacerbate, for instance, macro-economic crisis and civil unrest. If TTC planning and construction are flawed due to overlooking risks at project inception, the undesirable effects arising later will persist throughout TTC lifespan with minimum reversibility [27][28][29][30][31]. ...

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Research: What Risks Get Researched, Where and How?

Risk Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy

... The aviation sector accounts for 19 % of the total studies. It mainly focused on air transport (Kesseler, 2004;Abeyratne, 2012), accident investigation (Abeyratne, 2014;van Asselt, 2018), airport performance (Enoma and Allen, 2007), civil aviation (Guthrie, 2011), air traffic (Hering et al., 2003), aircraft modular systems and applications (Lautieri et al., 2005;Vlissidis et al., 2017). In terms of road transport, it concentrated on vehicles/autonomous vehicles (Sharma et al., 2019;Ben Hamida et al., 2017), buses (Salonen, 2018;Olfindo, 2021), coaches (Gromule et al., 2017), as well as smart cities (Acheampong, 2021), which takes 43 % of the total papers. ...

Safety in international security: a view point from the practice of accident investigation

Contemporary Security Policy

... Os autores destacam que, no passado, as cidades eram vistas como 'núcleos de criação de problemas', uma vez que produziam lixo em larga escala, altos índices de poluição, enormes congestionamentos, fontes de pobreza e criminalidade. Porém, com o passar dos anos, as cidades foram sendo consideradas como 'núcleo de solução de problemas', na medida em que são promotoras do desenvolvimento regional e centros de inovação (ROTMANS; VAN ASSELT, 2000 Ainda, Glaeser (2005) afi rma que a mobilidade adequada, ruas seguras, qualidade da educação e baixos impostos, consequências de uma gestão urbana sustentável, contribuem para atrair pessoas criativas. ...

Towards an integrated approach for sustainable city planning
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  • May 2000

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

... Stakeholder's managers organize, monitor and improve relationship of project stakeholders (PMI, 2004). On building construction projects, the major project stakeholders are clients or its representative, consultants and contractors (Marjolein, Ellen and Isabelle, 2015). Other may include trained or skilled artisans, supplies, subcontractors, regulatory bodies, professional bodies, local authorities, standard organization and host communities. ...

Some Reflections on EU Governance of Critical Infrastructure Risks
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  • December 2015

European Journal of Risk Regulation

... Uncertainty ultimately arises, because there is a "limitedness or even absence of scientific knowledge (data, information) that makes it difficult to exactly assess the probability and possible outcomes of undesired effects" [61]: p. 234]. When facing complex problems and systems, human knowledge is always incomplete and selective about assumptions, assertions, and predictions [27,98,99], and it is, therefore, difficult to assign probabilities, e.g., when defining risks, even though some forms of judgments are still possible [100]. Uncertainty thus manifests itself on the time scale of long-term governance, with difficulties in forecasting its concrete outcome within the variety of possible futures [101]. ...

Perspectives on uncertainty and risk
  • Citing Chapter
  • January 2000