Katja Barendse

Katja Barendse works as a water governance researcher in the Resilience Management & Governance team. In 2020 she obtained her master’s degree in Environment and Resource Management at VU Amsterdam, with the specializations Ecosystem Services & Biodiversity and Water & Society. In her thesis she focused on lock-in mechanisms and path dependencies and she applied these concepts to the case of (in)actions in drought adaptive groundwater management in the Netherlands. At an environmental consultancy, she worked on projects related to the environmental legal and institutional framework. At KWR she is active on research projects concerning future visions and the social environment.