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  1. Transforming the Electricity Grid: From Centralized Monocultures to a Polycentric Ecosystem

    Article • Energies, March 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  2. Transformation to a polycentric grid with distributed energy systems

    Article • August 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  3. Land Use as a Crucial Resource for Smart Grids—The ‘Common Good’ of Renewables in Distributed Energy Systems

    Article • Land, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  4. Conceptualizations of smart grids –anomalous and contradictory expert paradigms in transitions of the electricity system

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, March 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  5. Shifts in the smart research agenda? 100 priority questions to accelerate sustainable energy futures

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  6. Distributed energy systems as common goods: Socio-political acceptance of renewables in intelligent microgrids

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  7. Framing in Renewable Energy Policies: A Glossary

    Article • Energies, June 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  8. Social acceptance, lost objects, and obsession with the ‘public’—The pressing need for enhanced conceptual and methodological rigor

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  9. Social acceptance revisited: gaps, questionable trends, and an auspicious perspective

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  10. Co-operation for production of Renewable energy for peer-to-peer and self-supply

    Article • Landscape Research, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  11. ‘Sustainable City’ requires ‘recognition’—The example of environmental education under pressure from the compact city

    Article • Land Use Policy, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  12. Environmental education excursions and proximity to urban green space – densification in a ‘compact city’

    Article • Environmental Education Research, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  13. Renewable Energy and the Public

    Article • October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  14. Soc & It's Envir

    Article • October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  15. Wind Power wind power : Basic Challenge Concerning Social Acceptance wind power social acceptance

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  16. Fair distribution of power-generating capacity: justice, microgrids and utilizing the common pool of renewable energy

    Article • January 2013, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  17. Undesired reinforcement of harmful ‘self-evident truths’ concerning the implementation of wind power

    Article • Energy Policy, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  18. Full conceptualization of Social Acceptance, in this case on wind power and wind power projects.

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  19. The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart grids: Renewable as common pool resources

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  20. Contested environmental policy infrastructure: Socio-political acceptance of renewable energy, water, and waste facilities

    Article • Environmental Impact Assessment Review, September 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  21. Contrasting the core beliefs regarding the effective implementation of wind power. An international study of stakeholder perspectives

    Article • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, May 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  22. Near-shore wind power—Protected seascapes, environmentalists’ attitudes, and the technocratic planning perspective

    Article • Land Use Policy, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  23. Wind Power: Is There A “Planning Problem”? Expanding Wind Power: A Problem of Planning, or of Perception? The Problems Of Planning—A Developer's Perspective Wind Farms: More Respectful and Open Debate Needed, Not Less Planning: Problem “Carrier” or Pro...

    Article • Planning Theory & Practice, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Geraint Ellis, Dr Maarten Wolsink

  24. Planning for Climate Change

    Article • August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Jason Byrne, Professor Thanasis Kizos, Abid Mehmood, Dr Maarten Wolsink

  25. The motives for accepting or rejecting waste infrastructure facilities. Shifting the focus from the planners' perspective to fairness and community commitment

    Article • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, February 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  26. Wind power deployment outcomes: How can we account for the differences?

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, May 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  27. Wind power implementation: The nature of public attitudes: Equity and fairness instead of ‘backyard motives’

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, August 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  28. Institutional conditions are determining the succes or failure of wind power policies.

    Article • Energy Policy, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  29. Planning of renewables schemes: Deliberative and fair decision-making on landscape issues instead of reproachful accusations of non-cooperation

    Article • Energy Policy, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  30. Social acceptance of renewable energy innovation: An introduction to the concept

    Article • Energy Policy, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  31. Wind energy policies in the Netherlands: Institutional capacity-building for ecological modernisation

    Article • Environmental Politics, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  32. River basin approach and integrated water management: Governance pitfalls for the Dutch Space-Water-Adjustment Management Principle

    Article • Geoforum, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  33. NIMBY by another name? A reply to Wolsink

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, March 2006, Wiley

    Professor Phil J Hubbard, Dr Maarten Wolsink

  34. Invalid theory impedes our understanding: a critique on the persistence of the language of NIMBY

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, March 2006, Wiley

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  35. Policy Beliefs in Spatial Decisions: Contrasting Core Beliefs Concerning Space-making for Waste Infrastructure

    Article • Urban Studies, December 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  36. Reshaping the Dutch Planning System: A Learning Process?

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, April 2003, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  37. Amsterdam Human Capital

    Article • January 2003, Amsterdam University Press

    Sako Musterd, Dr Maarten Wolsink

  38. Waste Sector Structure: Institutional Capacity for Planning Waste Reduction

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, May 2001, Wiley

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  39. Wind power and the NIMBY-myth: institutional capacity and the limited significance of public support

    Article • Renewable Energy, September 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  40. The Structure of the Dutch Waste Sector and Impediments for Waste Reduction

    Article • Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, December 1997, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  41. THE STRUCTURE OF THE DUTCH WASTE SECTOR AND IMPEDIMENTS FOR WASTE REDUCTION

    Article • Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, December 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  42. Analysis of the failure of Dutch wind power policy since the early 1980-ies.

    Article • Energy Policy, December 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  43. Waste reduction and the structure of the Dutch waste sector.

    Article • January 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  44. Entanglement of Interests and Motives: Assumptions behind the NIMBY-theory on Facility Siting

    Article • Urban Studies, June 1994, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  45. The social impact of a large wind turbine

    Article • Environmental Impact Assessment Review, December 1988, Elsevier

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  46. Wind power for the electricity supply of houses

    Article • Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, September 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maarten Wolsink

  47. Wind Power: Basic Challenge Concerning Social Acceptance

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maarten Wolsink