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Elen-Maarja Trell
Department of Planning and Environment, University of Groningen, Postbus 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands

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Elen-Maarja Trell is assistant professor in Spatial Planning and Environment at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the role of collective action in creating more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive places. Specific themes include agro-food movements, community resilience to flooding, community resilience in rural areas, and climate change adaptation.

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Journal article
Published: 21 July 2021 in Sustainability
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Ecovillages are collective projects that attempt to integrate sustainability principles into daily community life, while also striving to be demonstration projects for mainstream society. As spaces of experimentation, they can provide valuable insights into sustainability transformations. Through shared values and interpersonal connections, ecovillages possess collective identities, which provide a platform for enacting their ideals. However, many ecovillage residents question how to best enhance their role as models, resource centers, and pieces of a greater movement toward sustainability transformations, while simultaneously preserving their unique community and identity. In relation to the above, this paper addresses the questions: What can collective identity in ecovillage communities teach us about the objective and subjective dimensions of sustainability transformations? Furthermore, how can the perspective of collective identity highlight challenges for ecovillages for initiating sustainability transformations? Sustainability transformations encompass objective (behaviors) and subjective (values) dimensions; however, the interactions between these spheres deserve more scholarly attention. Using ethnographic data and in-depth interviews from three ecovillages in the United States, this paper reveals the value in collective identity for underscoring belonging and interpersonal relationships in sustainability transformations. Furthermore, the collective identity perspective exposes paradoxes and frictions between ecovillages and the societal structures and systems they are embedded within.

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Ciska Ulug; Lummina Horlings; Elen-Maarja Trell. Collective Identity Supporting Sustainability Transformations in Ecovillage Communities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8148 .

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Ciska Ulug, Lummina Horlings, Elen-Maarja Trell. Collective Identity Supporting Sustainability Transformations in Ecovillage Communities. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8148.

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Ciska Ulug; Lummina Horlings; Elen-Maarja Trell. 2021. "Collective Identity Supporting Sustainability Transformations in Ecovillage Communities." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8148.

Article
Published: 29 April 2021 in Agriculture and Human Values
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This article uses foodscapes as a lens to explore the potential of ecovillages’ food practices towards enhancing sustainable food systems. Ecovillages are collective projects where members attempt to integrate sustainability principles into daily community life. In these communities, food acts, not only as an element of social life, but also as a venue through which to interact with mainstream food systems and society. Yet, how food practices at ecovillages contribute to sustainable food systems remains vague. This article proposes foodscapes, as a lens, for exploring the sustainability potential of place-based food practices in ecovillages, while also directing attention to how these practices intersect with networks at broader social and spatial scales. It asks, how can we better understand and draw from sustainable food practices, when considering these as both, place-based and relational? And what is the potential and the role of ecovillage communities to contribute to broader sustainable food system change? Drawing on ethnographic and food mapping methods, the article explores selected food practices at three ecovillage communities in the United States. Using social practice theory for “zooming in” on place-based practices and “zooming out” to examine relational networks, we investigate how these communities create internally sustainable food systems, while externally bridging themselves with broader urban and rural communities. Through viewing ecovillage food practices as place-based and relational, we develop a broader and spatially-focused understanding of food system sustainability.

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Ciska Ulug; Elen-Maarja Trell; Lummina Horlings. Ecovillage foodscapes: zooming in and out of sustainable food practices. Agriculture and Human Values 2021, 1 -19.

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Ciska Ulug, Elen-Maarja Trell, Lummina Horlings. Ecovillage foodscapes: zooming in and out of sustainable food practices. Agriculture and Human Values. 2021; ():1-19.

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Ciska Ulug; Elen-Maarja Trell; Lummina Horlings. 2021. "Ecovillage foodscapes: zooming in and out of sustainable food practices." Agriculture and Human Values , no. : 1-19.

Articles
Published: 13 July 2020 in Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
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In response to the rising climatic impacts on worldwide urbanized deltas, the Netherlands has strategically and politically framed Dutch water management as a global water solution for improving water safety and flood protection in other countries such as Vietnam. Being renowned for its water management approach, the Netherlands is particularly active in sharing water knowledge, insights, and policies internationally. This paper connects a framing perspective to policy translation studies to understand the role of language and meaning-making in the cross-border travel of policies. Adopting a framing perspective, it presents four dimensions of water policy translation concerning how policy frames are being created and interpreted – during the cross-border travel. The paper follows the process of the Dutch water management approach being ‘packaged’ as global water solutions and ‘translated’ to inform the development of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta Plan of 2013. The results show that although similar concepts, metaphors and narratives could be witnessed in this translation process, the local use and interpretation of these concepts remain challenging. Inclusive engagement, shared and comprehensive understanding, and continuous exchange and learning processes could help to improve cross-border policy-making for sustainable delta management.

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N. Laeni; M. A. Van Den Brink; E. M. Trell; E. J. M. M. Arts. Going Dutch in the Mekong Delta: a framing perspective on water policy translation. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 2020, 23, 16 -33.

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N. Laeni, M. A. Van Den Brink, E. M. Trell, E. J. M. M. Arts. Going Dutch in the Mekong Delta: a framing perspective on water policy translation. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 2020; 23 (1):16-33.

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N. Laeni; M. A. Van Den Brink; E. M. Trell; E. J. M. M. Arts. 2020. "Going Dutch in the Mekong Delta: a framing perspective on water policy translation." Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 23, no. 1: 16-33.

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Published: 11 March 2020 in International Journal of Water Resources Development
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This article focuses on the emerging role of citizens and their increasing contributions to local pluvial flood risk management in the Netherlands. A qualitative research approach is followed with semi-structured interviews, and analysis of policy documents and media reports. A typology of physical resources and actions, knowledge and advocacy activities shows evidence of locally focused citizen contributions to pluvial flood risk management in the Dutch city of Arnhem. We find that this emerging citizen role is being shaped by traditional authority-led interactions, creative and dialogical approaches to citizen engagement, and citizen-initiated contributions that then interact with authorities.

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Steven Ashley Forrest; Elen-Maarja Trell; Johan Woltjer. Emerging citizen contributions, roles and interactions with public authorities in Dutch pluvial flood risk management. International Journal of Water Resources Development 2020, 37, 1 -23.

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Steven Ashley Forrest, Elen-Maarja Trell, Johan Woltjer. Emerging citizen contributions, roles and interactions with public authorities in Dutch pluvial flood risk management. International Journal of Water Resources Development. 2020; 37 (1):1-23.

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Steven Ashley Forrest; Elen-Maarja Trell; Johan Woltjer. 2020. "Emerging citizen contributions, roles and interactions with public authorities in Dutch pluvial flood risk management." International Journal of Water Resources Development 37, no. 1: 1-23.

Articles
Published: 02 December 2019 in International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
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The Free Café is a citizen-driven collective in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands that serves a free meal biweekly, using food that would otherwise be thrown away. While principally attempting to create a space where financial pressures and social status are lifted, the group also works to raise awareness about the environmental and societal impacts of food. Using Gibson-Graham’s community economies (CE) lens to analyse the Free Café, this paper aims to understand how urban citizen collectives are organised and governed, to better facilitate local action in food initiatives. Through participant observation and in-depth interviews, this research focuses on the daily practices, interactions, organisation and challenges surrounding the Free Café, to draw lessons about urban collective action and CE. Though findings indicate internal conflicts and contradictions, through sharing its vision and opportunities, the café is found to be valuable to food-waste awareness-raising and experimentation towards sustainable post-capitalist societies.

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Ciska Ulug; Elen-Maarja Trell. ‘It’s not really about the food, it’s also about food’: urban collective action, the community economy and autonomous food systems at the Groningen Free Café. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 2019, 12, 127 -142.

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Ciska Ulug, Elen-Maarja Trell. ‘It’s not really about the food, it’s also about food’: urban collective action, the community economy and autonomous food systems at the Groningen Free Café. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 2019; 12 (2):127-142.

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Ciska Ulug; Elen-Maarja Trell. 2019. "‘It’s not really about the food, it’s also about food’: urban collective action, the community economy and autonomous food systems at the Groningen Free Café." International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 12, no. 2: 127-142.

Articles
Published: 27 May 2019 in Planning Theory & Practice
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This paper focuses on understanding the institutional determinants of adaptive capacity to illustrate emerging challenges and opportunities for climate adaptation in the context of urban pluvial flood risk management. The paper explores and compares the formal-legal as well as the perceived roles and responsibilities of key actor groups in the context of adaptation to urban pluvial flooding in the Dutch city Arnhem. The concluding section questions the assumed power of formal-legal rules and institutions in motivating key stakeholders to take action. It poses that, in order to stimulate participation and collaboration in local climate adaptation, more attention should be paid to the informal institutional context, in particular to the perception of responsibilities.

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E-M. Trell; Marijn van Geet. The Governance of Local Urban Climate Adaptation: Towards Participation, Collaboration and Shared Responsibilities. Planning Theory & Practice 2019, 20, 376 -394.

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E-M. Trell, Marijn van Geet. The Governance of Local Urban Climate Adaptation: Towards Participation, Collaboration and Shared Responsibilities. Planning Theory & Practice. 2019; 20 (3):376-394.

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E-M. Trell; Marijn van Geet. 2019. "The Governance of Local Urban Climate Adaptation: Towards Participation, Collaboration and Shared Responsibilities." Planning Theory & Practice 20, no. 3: 376-394.

Book chapter
Published: 12 April 2018 in Re-exploring Canadian Space. Redécouvrir L’Espace canadien
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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina Van Hoven. Place attachment in rural areas:. Re-exploring Canadian Space. Redécouvrir L’Espace canadien 2018, 27 -44.

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Elen-Maarja Trell, Bettina Van Hoven. Place attachment in rural areas:. Re-exploring Canadian Space. Redécouvrir L’Espace canadien. 2018; ():27-44.

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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina Van Hoven. 2018. "Place attachment in rural areas:." Re-exploring Canadian Space. Redécouvrir L’Espace canadien , no. : 27-44.

Book chapter
Published: 08 August 2015 in Politics, Citizenship and Rights
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This chapter discusses young people’s citizenship experiences and learning in rural Estonia. The focus is on the key everyday relations and contexts – home, school, and leisure places – where citizenship is situated. The authors argue that such different contexts provide different opportunities for acting and being and thus different opportunities for participation and citizenship learning. The age group in focus is young people between 15 and 19. This age group is of particular interest in political studies as a group close to accessing most formal (adult) political processes (18 years for many countries) and therefore a target of enhanced political awareness campaigns (such as civics education). The chapter concludes with a discussion on the relevance of recognizing young people’s everyday engagement.

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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina van Hoven. Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective. Politics, Citizenship and Rights 2015, 423 -443.

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Elen-Maarja Trell, Bettina van Hoven. Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective. Politics, Citizenship and Rights. 2015; ():423-443.

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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina van Hoven. 2015. "Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective." Politics, Citizenship and Rights , no. : 423-443.

Book chapter
Published: 29 May 2015 in Politics, Citizenship and Rights
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This chapter discusses young people’s citizenship experiences and learning in rural Estonia. The focus is on the key everyday relations and contexts – home, school, and leisure places – where citizenship is situated. The authors argue that such different contexts provide different opportunities for acting and being and thus different opportunities for participation and citizenship learning. The age group in focus is young people between 15 and 19. This age group is of particular interest in political studies as a group close to accessing most formal (adult) political processes (18 years for many countries) and therefore a target of enhanced political awareness campaigns (such as civics education). The chapter concludes with a discussion on the relevance of recognizing young people’s everyday engagement.

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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina van Hoven. Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective. Politics, Citizenship and Rights 2015, 1 -16.

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Elen-Maarja Trell, Bettina van Hoven. Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective. Politics, Citizenship and Rights. 2015; ():1-16.

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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina van Hoven. 2015. "Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective." Politics, Citizenship and Rights , no. : 1-16.

Workshop report
Published: 15 January 2015 in Resilience
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Gwenda van der Vaart; Elen-Maarja Trell; Britta Restemeyer; Melanie Martijntje Bakema. Resilience: Just do it?! Governing for resilience in vulnerable places, University of Groningen, 9–10 October 2014. Resilience 2015, 3, 160 -171.

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Gwenda van der Vaart, Elen-Maarja Trell, Britta Restemeyer, Melanie Martijntje Bakema. Resilience: Just do it?! Governing for resilience in vulnerable places, University of Groningen, 9–10 October 2014. Resilience. 2015; 3 (2):160-171.

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Gwenda van der Vaart; Elen-Maarja Trell; Britta Restemeyer; Melanie Martijntje Bakema. 2015. "Resilience: Just do it?! Governing for resilience in vulnerable places, University of Groningen, 9–10 October 2014." Resilience 3, no. 2: 160-171.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2014 in Journal of Rural Studies
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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina van Hoven; Paulus P.P. Huigen. Youth negotiation and performance of masculine identities in rural Estonia. Journal of Rural Studies 2014, 34, 15 -25.

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Elen-Maarja Trell, Bettina van Hoven, Paulus P.P. Huigen. Youth negotiation and performance of masculine identities in rural Estonia. Journal of Rural Studies. 2014; 34 ():15-25.

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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina van Hoven; Paulus P.P. Huigen. 2014. "Youth negotiation and performance of masculine identities in rural Estonia." Journal of Rural Studies 34, no. : 15-25.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2012 in Journal of Rural Studies
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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina van Hoven; Paulus Huigen. ‘It's good to live in Järva-Jaani but we can't stay here’: Youth and belonging in rural Estonia. Journal of Rural Studies 2012, 28, 139 -148.

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Elen-Maarja Trell, Bettina van Hoven, Paulus Huigen. ‘It's good to live in Järva-Jaani but we can't stay here’: Youth and belonging in rural Estonia. Journal of Rural Studies. 2012; 28 (2):139-148.

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Elen-Maarja Trell; Bettina van Hoven; Paulus Huigen. 2012. "‘It's good to live in Järva-Jaani but we can't stay here’: Youth and belonging in rural Estonia." Journal of Rural Studies 28, no. 2: 139-148.