Henny van der Windt

Hendrik Johannes (Henny) van der Windt (born 22 August 1955, in Vlaardingen) is a Dutch associate professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, specialized in the relationship between sustainability and science, in particular the relationship between nature conservation and ecology and between energy technologies, locale energy-initiatives and the energy transition.

Van der Windt studied biology at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the 1970s and received his doctorate in 1995 with his PhD dissertation "En dan: wat is natuur nog in dit land?: natuurbescherming in Nederland 1880-1990", (After all, what is nature in this country, nature conservation in the Netherlands 1980-1990, with chapters on the rise of nature conservation, tensions between agriculture and nature conservation, forestry, ecological restoration and the management of the Wadden Sea.

After his study he worked as a junior scientist and lecturer at the faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Biology Department, Science & Society section at the University of Groningen. After his doctorate, he worked several years as a researcher (post-doc) in Groningen within the Ethics and Policy research programme.[1] Around 2000 he became assistant professor and soon associate professor at the Science & Society Group of the University of Groningen, researching science-society interactions concerning genomics, food, ecological restoration, energy and sustainability.[2]

Publications

Van der Windt has published scientific and journalistic articles as well as reports. In addition, he was author or editor of several books.[3][4][5] A selection:

  • 1995. En dan: wat is natuur nog in dit land? : natuurbescherming in Nederland 1880-1990
  • 1997. Environmental chronology of the Netherlands: a short historical overview of important incidents, institutions, legislation, persons, protest actions and publications. with Nigel Harle
  • 2001. Een Spiegel der Wetenschap: 200 Jaar Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap te Groningen. With A. Blaauw, G.J. Boekschoten, P.U. Kooystra, D. Leijenaar, F. Smit, K. Wiese & M. van Wijhe,
  • 2008. Tussen dierenliefde en milieubeleid
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References
  1. Adriaan Blaauw ea. red. (2001). Een spiegel der wetenschap : 200 jaar Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap te Groningen. Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap, Groningen.
  2. Opinie 29: ‘De aanleg van een zweeftrein naar het Westen wordt nog rampzaliger dan de Betuwelijn’ RUG 2004. Bezien 21 december 2009.
  3. KB resultaten publicaties Windt, Henny J. van der. Visited 28 May 2020.
  4. https://pure.rug.nl/admin/workspace.xhtml%5B%5D
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