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2026

  • Valkenburg, G., 2026. Epistemic Work and Epistemic Justice in Just Green Transitions, in: Berisha, E., Moodie, J., Allkja, L., Jeftić, M. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Just Green Transitions in the Western Balkans and Beyond. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, pp. 107–119. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95075-9_6
  • Valkenburg, G., 2026. An enquiry into modes of non-existence. Science, Technology & Human Values 51. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439241300744

2025

  • Unc, A., Najm, M.R.A., Aspholm, P.E., Bolisetti, T., Charles, C., Datta, R., Eggen, T., Flem, B., Hailu, G., Heimstad, E.S., Hurlbert, M., Karlsson, M., Korsnes, M., Nash, A., Parsons, D., Sajeevan, R.S., Shurpali, N., Valkenburg, G., Wilde, D., Wu, B., Yanni, S.F., Misra, D., 2025. Arctic food and energy security at the crossroads. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 121+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02122-6
  • Valkenburg, G., 2025. Energy justice as epistemic justice. Ethics, Policy & Environment 28, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2024.2418789
  • Hailu, G., Najm, M., Aspholm, P.E., Bolisetti, T., Charles, C., Datta, R., Eggen, T., Flem, B., Hurlbert, M., Karlsson, M., Nash, A., Shurpali, N., Sajeevan, R.S., Parsons, D., Unc, A., Valkenburg, G., Wilde, D., Wu, B., Yanni, S.F., Misra, D., 2025. Renewable energy sources for arctic food sufficiency and sustainability. npj Sustainable Agriculture 3, 43+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44264-025-00079-9
  • Zerjav, V., Valkenburg, G., Gjerde, M.T., 2025. Participation in Urban Regeneration Programmes. The case of Trondheim, Norway, in: (Ed.), Citizen Participation in Sustainable Urban Development. Routledge, New York, pp. 49–63. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003463443-5
  • Valkenburg, G., Throndsen, W., 2025. Innovating at NTNU. An evaluative enquiry into NTNU’s innovation ecosystem. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

2024

  • Tijdink, J.K., Valkenburg, G., De Rijcke, S., Dix, G., 2024. Relational responsibilities: Researchers perspective on current and progressive assessment criteria: A focus group study. PLoS One 19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307814
  • Silvast, A., Virtanen, M.J., Valkenburg, G., Kongsager, R., 2024. How does science and technology studies contribute to climate mitigation research? Advanced review of infrastructure as a concept and method. WIREs Climate Change 15, e888+. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.888

2023

  • Silvast, A., Valkenburg, G., 2023. Energy citizenship: A critical perspective. Energy Research & Social Science 98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102995
  • Foulds, C., Valkenburg, G., Ryghaug, M., Suboticki, I., Skjølsvold, T.M., Korsnes, M., Heidenreich, S., 2023. Implementing Mission-oriented Experiments: Recommendations on Epistemic Inclusion for City Stakeholders Working in Climate Change Initiatives. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy. https://doi.org/10.3138/jccpe-2022-0014
  • Palme, P.M., Valkenburg, G., 2023. Time(s) on Earch (live performance). Too Early, Too Late. Conference of the Society for Artisic Research.

2022

  • Valkenburg, G., 2022. Temporality in epistemic justice. Time & Society 31, 437–454,. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X221094699

2021

  • Valkenburg, G., 2021. Engineering as a socio-political practice, in: Michelfelder, D.P., Doorn, N. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering. Routledge, London.
  • Pandey, P., Valkenburg, G., Mamidipudi, A., Bijker, W.E., 2021. ‘All we want, is to get rid of the straw’: How biofuel policies need to be multiple. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal 15, 4–23,. https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2020.1868697

2020

  • Valkenburg, G., Dix, G., Tijdink, J., De Rijcke, S., 2020. Making researchers responsible: attributions of responsibility and ambiguous notions of culture in research codes of conduct. BMC Medical Ethics 21, 1–13,. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-020-00496-0
  • Pandey, P., Valkenburg, G., Mamidipudi, A., Bijker, W.E., 2020. RRI in the Global South: Agriculture, Renewable Energy and the Pursuit of Symmetry. Science, Technology and Society 25, 215–222,.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2020. Consensus or contestation: reflections on governance of innovation in a context of heterogeneous knowledges. Science, Technology and Society 25, 341–356,. https://doi.org/10.1177/0971721820903005
  • Dix, G., Kaltenbrunner, W., Tijdink, J., Valkenburg, G., De Rijcke, S., 2020. Algorithmic Allocation: Untangling Rival Considerations of Fairness in Research Management. Politics and Governance 8, 15–25.
  • Valkenburg, G., Mamidipudi, A., Pandey, P., Bijker, W.E., 2020. Responsible innovation as empowering ways of knowing. Journal of Responsible Innovation 7, 6–25,. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2019.1647087

2019

  • Valkenburg, G., 2019. Engineers and the Multiplicity of Knowledge, in: Sośnicka, J. (Ed.), An Engineer With a Humanist’s Soul: Humanistic Issues of Technological World. Lodz University of Technology Press, Lodz, Poland, pp. 284–297,.
  • De Rijcke, S., Holtrop, T., Kaltenbrunner, W., Zuijderwijk, J., Beaulieu, A., Franssen, T., Van Leeuwen, T., Mongeon, P., Tatum, C., Valkenburg, G., Wouters, P., 2019. Evaluative inquiry: engaging research evaluation analytically and strategically. fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation 48, 176–182.

2018

  • Valkenburg, G., Van Lente, H., 2018. Technology and Social Problems, in: Trevino, J. (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 489–502,.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2018. Epistemic Justice (blog post). https://www.govertvalkenburg.net/EpistemicJusticeChirala2018.

2017

  • Pandey, P., Valkenburg, G., Mamidipudi, A., Bijker, W.E., 2017. The key to resolving straw burning: farmers’ expertise. Policy brief on missing cultural perspectives. Maastricht University, Maastricht.
  • Pandey, P., Valkenburg, G., Mamidipudi, A., Bijker, W.E., 2017. Stubble burning and pollution: It’s a question of dignity and identity of farmers. The Hindustan Times.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2017. Security Technologies Versus Citizen Roles?. Science as Culture 26, 307–329,. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2016.1255723

2016

  • Gracceva, F., Valkenburg, G., Zeniewski, P., 2016. Reducing uncertainty through a systemic risk-management approach, in: Lombardi, P., Grünig, M. (Eds.), Low-Carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective. Academic Press, London, pp. 231–256.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2016. Policy-oriented technology assessment across Europe. Expanding capacities. Journal of Responsible Innovation 3, 182–184,. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2016.1210721
  • Valkenburg, G., Gracceva, F., 2016. Towards governance of energy security, in: Lombardi, P., Grünig, M. (Eds.), Low-Carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective. Academic Press, London, pp. 207–229.
  • Owczynik, K., Valkenburg, G., 2016. Risk identities: constructing actionable problems in Dutch youth, in: Van der Ploeg, I., Pridmore, J. (Eds.), Digitizing Identities. Routledge, pp. 103–124.
  • Valkenburg, G., Cotella, G., 2016. Governance of energy transitions: about inclusion and closure in complex sociotechnical problems. Energy, Sustainability and Society 6, 1–11,. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-016-0086-8

2015

  • Valkenburg, G., Cotella, G. (Eds.), 2015. Unpacking the governance of energy transition. A conceptual framework. Definite Space - Fuzzy Responsibility. AESOP Annual Congress.
  • Valkenburg, G., Bijker, W.E., Swierstra, T.E., 2015. Secure and Low-Carbon Energy is Citizens’ Energy. A manifesto for human-based governance of secure and low-carbon energy transitions. The MILESECURE2050 project, Maastricht / Torino.
  • Braun, S., Friedewald, M., Valkenburg, G., 2015. Civilizing Drones: Military Discourses Going Civil?. Science & Technology Studies 28, 73–87. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.55351
  • Valkenburg, G., van der Ploeg, I., 2015. Materialities between security and privacy: A constructivist account of airport security scanners. Security Dialogue 46, 326–344,. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010615577855
  • Valkenburg, G., 2015. Privacy versus security: problems and possibilities for the trade-off model, in: Gutwirth, S., Leenes, R., De Hert, P. (Eds.), Reforming Data Protection: The Global Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 253–269,.

2014

  • Valkenburg, G., 2014. Crisis, Innovation and Sustainable Development: The Ecological Opportunity edited by Blandine Laperche, Nadine Levratto and Dimitri Uzunidis. Science and Public Policy 41, 548–549. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scu031

2013

  • Valkenburg, G., 2013. Technoethics and Public Reason. International Journal of Technoethics 4, 72–84,. https://doi.org/10.4018/jte.2013070106
  • Valkenburg, G., Van der Ploeg, I., Roosendaal, A., Huijboom, N., Van Veenstra, A.F., 2013. Report on mutual shaping processes between technologies and conceptions of privacy and security. The PRISMS Project.

2012

  • Aarden, E., Penders, B., Deibel, E., Valkenburg, G., 2012. L’Aquila: governance flaws exposed. Nature 491. https://doi.org/10.1038/491192a
  • Valkenburg, G., 2012. The Netherlands, in: Pierce, M.A. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Energy. Salem Press / Golson Media.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2012. Ook impliciete woorden van de paus doen ertoe. Trouw.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2012. Technological change and the destabilization of liberal politics, in: Brey, P.A.E., Briggle, A., Spence, E.H. (Eds.), The Good Life in a Technological Age. Routledge, pp. 339–348,.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2012. Sustainable technological citizenship. European Journal of Social Theory 15, 471–487. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431011423605
  • Valkenburg, G., 2012. Bruno Latour: On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods. Science Studies 25, 71–73,.

2011

  • Valkenburg, G., Aarden, E., 2011. Constructing embryos, constructing politics: Connecting politics and technology in the Netherlands and Germany. BioSocieties 6, 447–465,. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2011.19
  • Valkenburg, G., 2011. Technologie is niet eng; we blijven divers en worden geen eenheidsworsten. Trouw.

2010

  • Valkenburg, G., 2010. Dood of monddood? Onwelkome geluiden in het debat over embryoselectie, in: Huijer, M., Smits, M. (Eds.), Moralicide. Nieuwe Morele Vocabulaires Voor Technologie. Klement, Kampen, pp. 160–174.

2009

  • Valkenburg, G., 2009. Breinpil zal heel gewoon worden. Trouw.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2009. Politics by All Means - An Enquiry into Technological Liberalism, Simon Stevin Series in the Ethics of Technology. University of Twente / 3TU.Center for Ethics and Technology, Enschede. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036528481

2008

  • Valkenburg, G., 2008. Technologie als betekenis, in: Van Well, M. (Ed.), Deus et Machina. De Verwevenheid Van Technologie en Religie. STT, Den Haag, pp. 210–215.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2008. De transistor, een schakelaar voor de moderne tijd, in: Dijkgraaf, R., Fresco, L., van Weezel, T.G., van Calmthout, M. (Eds.), De Bètacanon. Wat Iedereen Moet Weten Van de Natuurwetenschappen. De Volkskrant/Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, pp. 33–35.

2007

  • Valkenburg, G., 2007. Klimaatneutraal vliegen is niet meer dan uitstel van executie. De Volkskrant.
  • Valkenburg, G., 2007. Schakelaar voor modern bestaan: De Transistor. De Volkskrant.
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