Ernst Frederik ten Heuvelhof (born 1954 in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

) is a Dutch organizational theorist, and professor of public administration at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of

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, and professor of public administration at

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. He is known for his work on process management,

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and complex

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Biography

Ten Heuvelhof obtained his MA in

urban planning Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...

and in law at the

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public university, public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in ...

in 1977. In 1982 he received his PhD with a thesis, entitled "Naar een empirische beleidstheorie", on the urban planning of shopping malls."Meesterwerk" in ''Delft Integraal'' 2006 nr. 4. After graduation worked at the

chamber of commerce A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to a ...

until 1980. From 1980 to 1992 he work at an urban design consulting firm. In 1986 became part-time assistant professor at the

, where he eventually was appointed professor of public administration for one day a week. In 1991 he was appointed professor of public administration at the

. In the 1990s his research was focused on governance issues in the field of environmental and physical problems. Walter Julius Michael Kickert, Frans van Vught (1995). ''Public policy and administration sciences in The Netherlands.'' 1996, p. 340. In 2006 Ten Heuvelhof was awarded the Leermeesterprijs 2006.

Selected publications

* Bruijn, Johan Adam, and Ernst Frederik Heuvelhof. ''Networks and decision making.'' Lemma, 2000. * De Bruijn, Hans, ten Heuvelhof, Ernst, Roel in 't Veld. ''Process management why project management fails in complex decision making processes.'' Boston, MA: Kluwer, 2002. Articles, a selection: * Heuvelhof, Ernst ten, and Charlotte Nauta.
The effects of environmental impact assessment in the Netherlands
" ''Project appraisal'' 12.1 (1997): 25–30. * De Bruijn, Hans, and Ernst ten Heuvelhof.
Policy analysis and decision making in a network: how to improve the quality of analysis and the impact on decision making
" ''Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal'' 20.4 (2002): 232–242. * van Bueren, Ellen, and Ernst ten Heuvelhof.
Improving governance arrangements in support of sustainable cities
" ''Environment and planning B: Planning and Design'' 32.1 (2005): 47–66.

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