I coordinate the transdisciplinary Horizon Europe project Butterfly on pollinator stewardship in view of the cascading impacts of pollinator decline.

For a topical list of publications see my Google Scholar profile

 

• Public lecture: Urgent decisions in uncertain times, the case of global insect decline. Collaboration with the Bergen Society for the Advancement of Science (Selskapet til Vitenskapenes Fremme). See PowerPoint slides here. 10.05.23
• Op-ed in Norwegian daily Stavanger Aftenblad with Anne Jorunn Frøyen, PhD and authorized conservator at Jærmuseet: Heller føre var enn etter snar - bruk ikkje gift mot løvetann! (Better safe than sorry - don't use poison against the daffodil!) 12.04.23
• Interviewed about bee decline in the film The Bee Battle by Norwegian film production company Tempo Film (Norwegian audio with English subs) 20.03.2023
• Interview in Forskningspolitikk ("Research Policy" - an open and independent Norwegian magazine for analysis and debate on research and innovation): Å kuratere kunnskap for ei ny tid (Curating knowledge for a new age) - 13.06.22
• Op-ed in forskning.no (website for Norwegian and international research news): Forskere må ta ansvar for å stanse den globale biedøden (Researchers must assume responsibility for halting the global bee decline - based on the following article) - 27.10.21.
• -> Response to the op-ed: Må forskere ta ansvar for å stanse biedøden? (Must researchers assume responsibility to halt the bee decline?) Anders Nielsen, 09.11.21
• Online open course in Knowledge Quality Assessment (hint: click the blue [+] in front of each main lesson to see sub-lessons)
• How can we make good decisions when experts lack the answers? (uib.no, 17.04.2020)
• EU Ban on Neonics: Too Little, Too Late (invited opinion article in Green European Journal, 19.12.2018)
• Interview in Morgenbladet on Post Normal Science: Fakta, faen (in Norwegian) (23.09.2016)
• Putting scientific facts under the magnifying glass (uib.no, 21.06.2016)
• Pollinators and Global Food Security: the Need for Holistic Global Stewardship (Food Ethics, 09.05.2016)
• Professor van der Sluijs number 25 on top 100 list (article in Dutch) (13.10.2015)
• We live in times of science on demand: an interview with Jeroen van der Sluijs (originally published in the Dutch Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth) magazine, June 2014)
• Uncertainty and Dissent in Climate Risk Assessment: A Post-Normal Perspective (Nature and Culture, 2012)
• Room for climate debate: Perspectives on the interaction between climate politics, science and the media (Rathenau Institutt, 2010)

Coordinator of the PhD course “Theory of Science and Ethics” for all PhDs in the Fac. of Mathematics & Natural Science, University of Bergen:

MNF990 Theory of Science and Ethics (formerly known as MNF490!)

Supervisor and assessor of MSc Thesis projects of UiB's Master's program Sustainability

2017

• Lennard W. Pisa; Dave Goulson; En-Cheng Yang et al. (2017). An update of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) on systemic insecticides. Part 2: impacts on organisms and ecosystems. (external link)
• Laura Maxim; Sandrine Blanchemanche; Natalia Grabar et al. (2017). Analyser la qualite de l'evaluation des risques: L'exemple des perturbateurs endocriniens. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2017). The NUSAP approach to uncertainty appraisal and communication. (external link)
• Dorothy Jane Dankel; Nora Sørensen Vaage; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2017). Post-normal science in practice. (external link)
• Mohammad Mahfujul Haque; Scott Bremer; Saifullah Bin Aziz et al. (2017). A critical assessment of knowledge quality for climate adaptation in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. (external link)

2014

• Jeroen P van der Sluijs; Diana Wildschut; Laura Maxim (2014). Bijen en insecticiden: late lessen uit vroege waarschuwingen. (external link)
• F Woudenberg; Martin van den Berg; Jan Willem Erisman et al. (2014). Advisory letter The health risks of Bisphenol A analogues. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). The risks of neonicotinoids to aquatic ecosystems. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Tools for Knowledge Quality Assessment. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Adaptation to uncertain future climate change. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Post Normal Science - theory and practice. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Knowledge Quality Assessment - an introduction. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Tools for Post Normal Science. (external link)
• Axel Hochkirch; Philip J. K. McGowan; Jeroen Pieter van der Sluijs (2014). Biodiversity reports need author rules. (external link)
• Laura Maxim; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Qualichem in vivo: A tool for assessing the quality of in vivo studies and its application for Bisphenol A. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Ingredients for a socially robust smart electricity grid. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Bijensterfte Oorzaken, gevolgen oplossingen. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Social robustness of smart electricity networks in Europe. (external link)
• Leendert Van Bree; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Dealing with uncertainty in climate adaptation decision-making. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs; J A Wardekker (2014). Strategies on dealing with uncertainties in urban climate change adaptation. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs; Zora Kovacic; Diana Wildschut et al. (2014). The future social robustness of smart electricity networks in Europe. (external link)
• F Woudenberg; Martin van der Berg; Jan Willem Erisman et al. (2014). Briefadvies Risicocommunicatie op een nieuwe leest schoeien. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Neonicotinoids: risks to pollinators, ecosystems and humans. (external link)
• J A Wardekker; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Climate change and health in the Netherlands. (external link)
• Jeroen Pieter van der Sluijs; Vanessa Amaral-Rogers; Luc P. Belzunces et al. (2014). Conclusions of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment on the risks of neonicotinoids and fipronil to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). SCRUTINISE DISCORD. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Post Normal Science and Knowledge Quality Assessment. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Critical reflection on assumptions: the NUSAP approach. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Post Normal Science: A reflective approach to Knowledge Quality Assessment. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Decades of climate research: Lessons for science. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2014). Wrapping up: The future of Post Normal Science. (external link)
• M Bouwknegt; A B Knol; Jeroen P van der Sluijs et al. (2014). Uncertainty of population risk estimates for pathogens based on QMRA or epidemiology: a case study of Campylobacter in the Netherlands. (external link)

2016

• Jeroen P van der Sluijs; Nora Sørensen Vaage (2016). Pollinators and Global Food Security: the Need for Holistic Global Stewardship. (external link)
• Andrea Saltelli; Silvio Oscar Funtowicz; Mario Giampietro et al. (2016). Modelling: Climate costing is politics not science. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2016). Numbers running wild. (external link)
• J. Arjan Wardekker; Diana Wildschut; Sara Stemberger et al. (2016). Screening regional management options for their impact on climate resilience: an approach and case study in the Venen-Vechtstreek wetlands in the Netherlands. (external link)
• Alice Benessia; Silvio Oscar Funtowicz; Mario Giampietro et al. (2016). Science on the verge. (external link)

2018

• Dave Goulson; Jeroen P van der Sluijs; s and 231 signatories (2018). Call to restrict neonicotinoids. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). We beschermen onze gewassen tegen insecten. Maar wie beschermt de insecten tegen ons?. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). ‘Bayer zette wetenschap jarenlang op dwaalspoor’. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Unraveling Controversy on Vexed Environmental Risks. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Higher Education Institutions & responsible research and Innovation (HEIRRI). (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Integrated Assessment Modeling and the Participatory Challenge: The Case of Climate Change. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Responsible Evidence Appraisal. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Knowledge Quality Assessment in model based scientific assessment. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Maintaining Scientific Integrity in Present Day Academic Reality. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Dealing with scientific uncertainty at the science-policy interface. (external link)
• Laura Maxim; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Quality of epidemiological studies: Procedural rules for uncertain science for policy, a case study on bisphenol-A. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). NEONICS - Hoe lobby en framing gemakslandbouwgif buiten beeld hielden. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Liaisons troubles entre recherche publique et agrochimie. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Doet Europa bijengif in de ban?. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Uncertainties and Quality Assurance in Research. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Dealing with uncertainty in model-based assessment: the NUSAP approach. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Knowledge Quality Assessment. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Co-development of place-based climate services for action (CoCliServ). (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs; Matthias Kaiser; Laura Elisabet Drivdal (2018). Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Post-Normal Science & Controversy Studies. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). The role of convenience pesticides in the collapse of the entomofauna. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). EU Ban on Neonics: Too Little, Too Late. (external link)
• F Woudenberg; J.W. Erisman; P.J. van den Hazel et al. (2018). Gevaarlijke stoffen in een circulaire economie. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Stop de mallemolen van pesticiden. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). From bee health to insectageddon: the battle over problem frames seen through a post-normal science lens. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2018). Ze zijn net als de tabaksindustrie. (external link)

2025

• Roxana Roos; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2025). Bridging different ways of knowing in climate change adaptation requires solution-oriented cross-cultural dialogue. (external link)

2020

• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2020). Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk. (external link)
• Andrea Saltelli; Jeroen P van der Sluijs; Silvio Oscar Funtowicz et al. (2020). Post-normal pandemics: Why COVID-19 requires a new approach to science. (external link)
• Andrea Saltelli; Jeroen P van der Sluijs; Samuele Lo Piano et al. (2020). Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto,. (external link)
• Andrea Saltelli; Lorenzo Benini; Silvio Oscar Funtowicz et al. (2020). The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability. (external link)
• David Waltner-Toews; Annibale Biggeri; Bruna De Marchi et al. (2020). Pandemie post-normali. Perché CoViD-19 richiede un nuovo approccio alla scienza. (external link)

2019

• Samuele Lo Piano; Andrea Saltelli; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2019). Silver as a Constraint for a Large-Scale Development of Solar Photovoltaics? Scenario-Making to the Year 2050 Supported by Expert Engagement and Global Sensitivity Analysis. (external link)
• Scott Bremer; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2019). Initial Guidance Framework for Knowledge Quality Assessment in CoCliServ (CoCliServ D5.1). (external link)
• Scott Bremer; Johannes Adrianus Wardekker; Suraje Dessai et al. (2019). Toward a multi-faceted conception of co-production of climate services. (external link)

2015

• Lennard W. Pisa; Vanessa Amaral-Rogers; Luc P. Belzunces et al. (2015). Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates. (external link)
• Noa Simon-Delso; Vanessa Amaral-Rogers; Luc P. Belzunces et al. (2015). Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites. (external link)
• Madeleine Chagnon; David Kreutzweiser; Edward A.D. Mitchell et al. (2015). Risks of large-scale use of systemic insecticides to ecosystem functioning and services. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs; J. Arjan Wardekker (2015). Critical appraisal of assumptions in chains of model calculations used to project local climate impacts for adaptation decision support-the case of Baakse Beek. (external link)
• Wil Thissen; Jan Kwakkel; Marjolein Mens et al. (2015). Dealing with uncertainties in fresh water supply: experiences in the Netherlands. (external link)

2013

• Andrea Saltelli; Ângela Guimarães Pereira; Jeroen P van der Sluijs et al. (2013). What do i make of your latinorum? Sensitivity auditing of mathematical modelling. (external link)

2021

• Laura Drivdal; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2021). Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle. (external link)
• Laura Elisabet Drivdal; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2021). WP2 Case study: Neonicotinoid insecticides. (external link)
• Jeroen P van der Sluijs; Stéphane Foucart; Jérôme Casas (2021). Halting the pollinator crisis requires entomologists to step up and assume their societal responsibilities. (external link)
• Scott Bremer; Arjan Wardekker; Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen et al. (2021). Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands. (external link)

2022

• Scott Bremer; Marta Bruno Soares; Marina Baldissera Pacchetti et al. (2022). High-Quality Knowledge for Climate Adaptation: Revisiting Criteria of Credibility, Legitimacy, Salience, and Usability. (external link)
• Scott Bremer; Arjan Wardekker; Marina Baldissera Pacchetti et al. (2022). Editorial: High-Quality Knowledge for Climate Adaptation: Revisiting Criteria of Credibility, Legitimacy, Salience, and Usability. (external link)
• Scott Bremer; Anne Bremer; Lisbeth Iversen et al. (2022). Recognising the social functions of climate services in Bergen, Norway. (external link)

2023

• Andrea Saltelli; Marta Kuc-Czarnecka; Samuele Lo Piano et al. (2023). Impact assessment culture in the European Union. Time for something new?. (external link)
• Samuele Lo Piano; Máté János Lőrincz; Arnald Puy et al. (2023). Unpacking the modeling process for energy policy making. (external link)
• Ingjald Pilskog; Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2023). Urgent decisions in uncertain times with Jeroen van der Sluijs. (external link)

2024

• Jeroen P van der Sluijs (2024). Science advice. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

For a topical list of publications see my Google Scholar profile

Selected publications:

I guest-edited a special issue of Current Opinion in Insect Science on 'Pollinator decline:  human and policy dimensions', and a special issue of Frontiers of Climate on 'What is high quality knowledge for climate adaptation?'.

• Lo Piano, S., Lőrincz, M. J., Puy, A., Pye, S., Saltelli, A., Smith, S. T., & van der Sluijs, J. (2024). Unpacking the modeling process for energy policy making. Risk Analysis, 44(6), 1273-1284.
• Saltelli, A., Kuc-Czarnecka, M., Piano, S. L., Lőrincz, M. J., Olczyk, M., Puy, A., ... & van der Sluijs, J. P. (2023). Impact assessment culture in the European Union. Time for something new?. Environmental Science & Policy, 142, 99-111.
• RECIPES consortium (2022) Guidance for future application of the precautionary principle
• Bremer, S., Bremer, A., Iversen, L., Soares, M. B., & van der Sluijs, J. (2022). Recognising the social functions of climate services in Bergen, Norway. Climate Services, 27, 100305.
• Drivdal L & Van der Sluijs, JP (2021) Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle. Current opinion in insect science.
• Van der Sluijs, JP (2020) Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Altmetric: 360. Highest-scoring output from this source (#1 of 962)
• Saltelli A, Benini L, Funtowicz S, Giampietro M, Kaiser M, Reinert E, van der Sluijs JP (2020) The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability. Environmental Science & Policy, 106, 87-98 [112x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:45
• Bremer S, Wardekker A, Dessai S, Sobolowski S, Slaattelid R, van der Sluijs JP (2019) Toward a multi-faceted conception of co-production of climate services. Climate Services doi: 10.1016/j.cliser.2019.01.003. [179x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:23
• Maxim L & van der Sluijs JP (2018) Quality of epidemiological studies: Procedural rules for uncertain science for policy. Environmental Science & Policy 84: 80–87.
• van der Sluijs JP et al. (30 authors) (2015) Conclusions of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment on the risks of neonicotinoids and fipronil to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 22 (1) 148-154. [368x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric: 74
• Chagnon M, Kreutzweiser D, Mitchell EAD, Morrissey CA, Noome DA, van der Sluijs JP (2015) Risks of large scale use of systemic insecticides to ecosystem functioning and services, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 22 (1) 119-134. [ ISI Highly Cited Paper; 565x Google Scholar] Altmetric:110
• van der Sluijs JP, Delso NS, Goulson D, Maxim L, Bonmatin JM, Belzunces LP (2013) Neonicotinoids, bee disorders and the sustainability of pollinator services, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5: 293-305. [ISI Highly Cited Paper; 621x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:140
• van Dijk TC, van Staalduinen MA, van der Sluijs JP (2013) Macro-invertebrate decline in surface water polluted with imidacloprid. PLOS ONE, 8(5): e62374. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062374 [482x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:213; Covered in international media, the Guardian, Le Monde
• Petersen AC, Cath A, Hage M, Kunseler E, & van der Sluijs JP (2011) Post-Normal Science in Practice at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Science Technology & Human Values, 36 (3) 362-388 [153x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:3
• Maxim L & van der Sluijs JP (2011) Quality in environmental science for policy: Assessing uncertainty as a component of policy analysis. Environmental Science & Policy 14:482-492. [168x Google Scholar]

Overview of publications in Cristin:

I have long-standing experience in various leading roles in transdisciplinary international research projects, including 13 different EU projects funded under FP5, FP6, FP7 and H2020.

Current projects:

Pesti-Sci Controversy in carcinogenicity expertise: capturing agrochemical modes of action in publicresearch, industrial testing and regulatory science (Institut National du Cancer, France)

PI of Utrecht University team in SeMPER-Arctic: SeMPER-Arctic - Sense Making, Place attachment, and Extended networks as sources of Resilience in the Arctic (The Belmont Forum) [2020-2024]

Finalized projects:

PI of BeeCaution Bees pesticides and precaution: building an epistemic network in Norway (The Research Council of Norway) [2020-2022]

PI of Bergen team in RECIPES REconciling sCience, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders (H2020 Swafs) [2019-2022]

PI of Bergen team in CoCliServ Co-development of place-based climate services for action (JPI Climate ERA 4CS) [2017-2020] (Spin-off of UC4A!)

Go Figure: Visualizing Climate Change (FIGO) (SAMKUL Researcher Network)

Partner in PARENT, Participatory platform for sustainable energy management (EU JPI Urban Europe) [March 2016 - February 2019]

Mainstreaming Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Auditing (Peder Sather Grant) [July 2017 - June 2018] (with Philip Stark, UC Berkeley; Andrea Saltelli UiB and Leif Hellevik, NTNU)

HEIRRI Higher Education Institutions & Responsible Research and Innovation (H2020) [2015-2018]

PI of UC4A [Understanding Cultural Conditions for Climate Change Adaptation] (SAMKUL Researcher Network, Norwegian Research Council) [2015-2016]

ELSA of SALMOSTERILE (The Research Council of Norway) [2013-2018]

EPINET (FP7) [2012-2015]

Scientific coordinator on the IUCN international Task Force on Systemic Pesticides (Triodos Foundation) [2011-2013]