Prof Dr Ir Joop de Kraker (J.)
Research profile
The focus of my research at Maastricht Sustainability Institute is on multi-actor experimenting and learning for healthy and sustainable urban development, specifically in Urban Living Labs. Other research interests concern: (urban) ecosystem services, urban sustainability transitions, sustainable agriculture, natural resources management, and biodiversity & nature conservation.
Research projects
- Check&GROW - Een gezonde wijk met de Check&GROW (2024-2025, ZonMw)
- GGroen - Gezond Groen in kwetsbare wijken (2024-2025, ZonMw)
- RuimteGIDS Living Lab (2023, ZonMw)
- Degrowth Daily (2020-2021, NWO)
- TEK4Labs - The Experiment Kit for Urban Labs (2019-2020, NWO)
- RuimteGIDS - Ruimte voor Gezondheid In De Stad (2018-2022, ZonMw, NWO)
- SUMMALab - Smart Urban Mobility Meta-lab (2018-2022, NWO)
- GLOCULL - Globally and Locally Sustainable Food-Water-Energy Innovation in Urban Living Labs (2018-2022, NWO)
- SMULLN - Smart Urban Lab-kit for Learning in a Network (2017 – 2018, NWO)
- SmarterLabs - Improving Living Labs for Smart City Governance (2016 – 2019, NWO)
- Urb@exp - Learning from Urban Experiments with Living Labs & City Labs (2014 – 2017, NWO)
Key publications
Scholl, C., de Kraker, J., & Dijk, M. (2022). Enhancing the contribution of urban living labs to sustainability transformations: towards a meta-lab approach. Urban Transformations, 4, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-022-00038-4
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