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Education
PhD, Water Management and Governance, University of Twente, 2013
MSc, Civil Engineering and Management, University Twente, 2007
BSc, Civil Engineering, University of Twente, 2005
About Me
Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf, University of Twente
Since April 2025, I am chairing the Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Systems (CRIS) group at the Civil Engineering & Management Department at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. The CRIS group is committed to improving the sustainability and resilience of infrastructure systems. Inspired by systems thinking, we perceive infrastructure as complex systems where values such as safety are increasingly provided by solutions that combine traditional structures with nature-based, community-led and/or digital solutions. Our research, education and knowledge valorization activities are all linked to enhancing the sustainability and resilience of our infrastructure systems. I am personally especially working on stakeholder participation, cross-sectoral collaboration, system innovation, learning and transformation processes, boundary judgements, public values, transdisciplinary research approaches, participatory resilience assessment and decision-making processes. Our research is funded by a variety of regional, national and European funders, and we closely collaborate with Dutch government organizations (municipalities, regional water authorities, provinces, Ministry), Dutch knowledge and network organizations (Deltares, 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering) and a wide range of European and international partners.
Before joining the University of Twente I was a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück. I worked as project manager for international projects at the Dutch Regional Water Authority Vechtstromen (2013).
My Ph.D. research at the University of Twente (Sept. 2008 - May 2013) focused on the effectiveness of Dutch-funded water projects in Romania.
Publications
Book
De Boer, C., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Özeröl, G. & Bressers, J.T.A. (eds) (2013). Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer International Studies on Contextual Water Management. Oxon: Earthscan from Routledge.
Recent Referred Journal Publications
Ruiz, A., Vinke-De Kruijf, J., Santos, J., Volker, L., & Doreé, A (2025). Sustainability Transitions in Infrastructure: Understanding Causal Dynamics in the Dutch Asphalt Paving Sector, Construction Management and Economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2025.2521271
Bakhanova, E., Vinke de-Kruijf, J., Wöhler, L., Warbroek, B.A.W., Arentsen, M. (2025). Integrative approaches to interconnected environmental challenges: How institutional factors influence cross-sector integration in Dutch rural areas. Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02140-2
Pedde, S., Grendelman, R., Cumiskey, L., McCullagh, D., Vinke-Kruijf, J. Hölscher, K. (2024). Leveraging climate resilience capacities by learning from transdisciplinary research projects. Climate Risk Management. 100675
Doornkamp, T., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Pahlow, M., Matheson, D., (2024) How flood risk management projects can improve urban resilience: A combined assessment approach of functional resilience and adaptive capacity. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 1-11
Baack, F., Kuks, S. Özerol, G., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Halman, J., (2024). Deciding Climate Change Adaptation Implementation at the Local Level: A Tale of Two Cities in the Netherlands. Environmental Planning and Management, 1-21.
Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Snel, K., Groefsema, L. (2024). Diversification of flood risk management in the Netherlands: implications for boundary judgement practices. Journal of Flood Risk Management, e13028
Baack, F., Halman, J., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Özerol, G., & Kuks, S. (2024). Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors. Environmental Science & Policy, 160, 103845.
Vinke-De Kruijf, J., Heim LaFrombois, M. E., Warbroek, B., Morris, J. C., & Kuks, S. M. M. (2024) Climate-resilient water infrastructure: A call to action. Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy
Ruiz, A., Vinke-De Kruijf, J., Santos, J., Keijzer, E., Volker, L., & Dorée, A. (2024) The slow implementation of sustainable innovations in the asphalt paving sector: the role of actors and their interactions. Construction Management and Economics, 1-24.
Baack, F., Özerol, G., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Halman, J., Kuks, S. (2024) Implementing Climate Change Adaptation through Mainstreaming at the Local Level – A Comparative Case Study of two Municipalities in the Netherlands. Regional Environmental Change, 24 (49).
Fisk, J. M., Harris, P. A., Kuks, S. M. M., Morris, J. C., & Vinke-De Kruijf, J. (2023). Framing Water Infrastructure for Climate Resilience: Governance Dimensions and Challenges. Public Works Management & Policy. 29 (2).
Hartmann A., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., van Weesep, R. (2023), Asking the right questions: The role of reflection for learning in and between projects, International Journal of Project Management. 41, 5.
Warbroek, B., Holmatov, B., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Arentsen, M., Shakeri, M., de Boer, C., ... & Dorée, A. (2022). From sectoral to integrative action situations: an institutional perspective on the energy transition implementation in the Netherlands. Sustainability Science. 18, 97–114
ten Brinke, N., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Volker, L., & Prins, N. (2022). Mainstreaming climate adaptation into urban development projects in the Netherlands: private sector drivers and municipal policy instruments. Climate Policy. 22 (9–10), 1155–1168.
Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Verbrugge, L., Schröter, B., den Haan, R. J., Cortes Arevalo, J., Fliervoet, J., ... & Albert, C. (2022). Knowledge co-production and researcher roles in transdisciplinary environmental management projects. Sustainable Development, 30(2), 393–405.
Mehvar, S. H. , Wijnberg, K. M. , Borsje, B. W. , Kerle, N. , Schraagen, J. M. , Vinke-de Kruijf, J. , Geurs, K. , Hartmann, A. , Hogeboom, R. , & Hulscher, S. J. M. H. (2021). Review article: Towards Resilient Vital Infrastructure Systems: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Research Agenda. Natural hazards and earth systems sciences discussions, 21(5), 1383-1407.
van Mierlo, B., Halbe, J., Beers, P. J., Scholz, G. , & Vinke-de Kruijf, J. (2020). Learning about learning in sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 251-254.
Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Pahl-Wostl, C., Knieper, C. (2020). Wider learning outcomes of European climate change adaptation projects: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 34, 270 – 297
Özerol, G., Vinke-de Kruijf, J., Brisbois, M.C., Casiano Flores, C., Deekshit, P., Girard, C., Knieper, C., Mirnezami, S.J., Ortega-Reig, M., Ranjan, P., Schröder, N., Schröter, B. (2018). Comparative studies on water governance: a systematic review. Ecology & Society, 23(4):43.