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Pesch, U. (author)New technologies will have a big impact on our public life-world, suggesting that it is necessary to have a public debate on innovation. Such a debate is missing: instead of having a debate on the process of technology development, only expected effects of new technologies are discussed. This is undesirable as innovation processes recruit...journal article 2021
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Pesch, U. (author), Huijts, N.M.A. (author), Bombaerts, Gunter (author), Doorn, N. (author), Hunka, Agnieszka (author)This paper makes a conceptual inquiry into the notion of ‘publics’, and forwards an understanding of this notion that allows more responsible forms of decision-making with regards to technologies that have localized impacts, such as wind parks, hydrogen stations or flood barriers. The outcome of this inquiry is that the acceptability of a...journal article 2020
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Pesch, U. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory...journal article 2020
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Cuppen, Eefje (author), Ejderyan, Olivier (author), Pesch, U. (author), Spruit, S. (author), van de Grift, E.M.H.R. (author), Correljé, A. (author), Taebi, B. (author)Energy controversies have been widely studied. Such studies are, however, generally based on either single case studies, providing rich and in-depth understanding of (local) dynamics of planning and implementation processes, or they focus on understanding responses to a specific technology (not bound to a location). Therefore these studies...journal article 2020
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Vermaas, P.E. (author), Pesch, U. (author)In this article, we posit designerly thinking as a family of design approaches that some believe are able to effectively respond to wicked problems. We will scrutinize this premise by revisiting Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber's 1973 article in which the notion of wicked problems was originally introduced. In it, Rittel and Webber note the...journal article 2020
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- Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Pesch, U. (author), Spruit, S. (author), Correljé, A. (author), van de Grift, E.M.H.R. (author), Taebi, B. (author) poster 2019
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Rezaei, J. (author), Papakonstantinou, Athanasios (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author), Pesch, U. (author), Kana, A.A. (author)This paper presents a multi-criteria decision-making approach for the selection of a sustainable product-package design, accounting for the different actors within a food supply chain. The study extends the focus of sustainable packaging design to the collective of all supply chain actors. Decision criteria are identified via a literature...journal article 2019
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Pesch, U. (author), Ishmaev, G. (author)New network technologies are framed as eliminating ‘transaction costs’, a notion first developed in economic theory that now drives the design of market systems. However, the actual promise of the elimination of transaction costs seems unfeasible, because of a cyclical pattern in which network technologies that make that promise create...journal article 2019
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Pesch, U. (author)The self is conceptualized in a multitude of ways in different scholarly fields; at the same time moral agency appears to presuppose a unitary conception of the self. This paper explores this tension by introducing ‘moral senses’ which inform the normative evaluations of a person. The moral senses are featured as innate dispositions, but they...journal article 2019
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Pesch, Georg R. (author), Lorenz, Malte (author), Sachdev, S. (author), Salameh, S. (author), Du, Fei (author), Baune, Michael (author), Boukany, P. (author), Thöming, Jorg (author)Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a versatile technique for the solution of difficult (bio-)particle separation tasks based on size and material. Particle motion by DEP requires a highly inhomogeneous electric field. Thus, the throughput of classical DEP devices is limited by restrictions on the channel size to achieve large enough gradients. Here,...journal article 2018
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Pesch, U. (author)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce three storylines that address the relation between economic growth, technical innovation and environmental impact. The paper assesses if and how these storylines as guiding visions increase our range of future orientations. Design/methodology/approach: The paper first explains its general...journal article 2018
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Pesch, U. (author), Spekkink, Wouter (author), Quist, J.N. (author)Local sustainability initiatives are studied from two scholarly perspectives: the perspective of sociotechnical innovation, which relates to the capacity of bottom-up initiatives to contribute to the development of sociotechnical alternatives; and the perspective of civic engagement which relates to the capacity of citizens to organize...journal article 2018
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Pesch, U. (author), Vernay, A.L. (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author), Pandis Iveroth, S (author)In many sustainable urban innovation projects, the efforts, endurance and enthusiasm of individuals at key positions are considered a crucial factor for success. This article studies the role of individual agency in sociotechnical niches by using Kingdon’s agenda-setting model. Although strategic niche management is commonly used to study...journal article 2017
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Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Pesch, U. (author), Remmerswaal, S (author), Taanman, Mattijs (author)Few people disagree on the need for sustainable development, but ideas about what it exactly means and how to pursue it diverge considerably. Although such normative conflicts are key to sustainability transitions, attention to such conflicts is lacking in transition studies. In this paper we understand societal conflict as an informal...journal article 2016
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Pesch, U. (author), Correljé, A. (author), Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Taebi, B. (author)In this paper we develop a framework for understanding how justice-related claims play a role in the dynamics of controversy in energy projects. We do so by distinguishing two interacting trajectories of assessment: a formal trajectory that is embedded in the legal system and an informal trajectory that is mainly embedded in public discourse....journal article 2016
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Ligtvoet, A. (author), Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Di Ruggero, O. (author), Hemmes, Kas (author), Pesch, U. (author), Quist, J.N. (author), Mehos, D.C. (author)This paper reports on the refinement of constructive conflict methodology (CCM) combining Q methodology and stakeholder dialogue workshops for gas futures for the Netherlands. Since the end of the 1950s, natural gas exploration and exploitation has been a major focus of the Dutch energy policy. Discussions about the future of energy in the...journal article 2016
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Roeser, S. (author), Pesch, U. (author)Emotions are often met with suspicion in political debates about risky technologies, because they are seen as contrary to rational decision making. However, recent emotion research rejects such a dichotomous view of reason and emotion, by seeing emotions as an important source of moral insight. Moral emotions such as compassion and feelings of...journal article 2016
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Convection in an inclined layer generates various types of spatio-temporal patterns due to interaction of buoyancy and shear. At small angles of incline, the secondary instability of the uniform base state occurs in the form of buoyancy dominated longitudinal rolls. Above a critical angle of incline marking a co-dimension 2 point, shear driven...conference paper 2015
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Dignum, M. (author), Correlje, A.F. (author), Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Pesch, U. (author), Taebi, B. (author)The introduction of new energy technologies may lead to public resistance and contestation. It is often argued that this phenomenon is caused by an inadequate inclusion of relevant public values in the design of technology. In this paper we examine the applicability of the value sensitive design (VSD) approach. While VSD was primarily introduced...journal article 2015