The article argues that environmental politics can easily destabilize and overburden law, economy and science, in an attempt to unify, grasp, predict and control an environment that is not amenable to these operations. Yet, shifting the burden of collective decision- making on environmental matters to law, poses its own risks, for democratic politics, for the […]
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Category: Nature conservation
Competing claims in National Parks: Desi...
Governing protected areas, like national parks, often entails dealing with competing claims. A wide variety of stakeholders, including park managers, governments, NGO’s, land owners and entrepreneurs is involved. Each of them with different and and often conflicting interest and ambitions. Drawing upon studies made in the past years on the Veluwe (The Netherlands) and the […]
Participatie in Dorp en Natuur
De stichting Dorp en Natuur is 45 jaar geleden opgericht om te voorkomen dat plannen voor grootschalige nieuwbouw de kernwaarden van Amerongen en Leersum (dorpskarakter, rust, ruimte en groen) zouden aantasten. Deze kernwaarden worden tegenwoordig niet meer zo zichtbaar bedreigd. Echter de sluipende aantasting van het uiterlijk van de dorpen en ommelanden wordt door de […]
Performing failure in conservation polic...
Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld In this article we present the results of a study towards the reality effects of discourses affecting the implementation of Natura 2000 in the Netherlands. The Dutch case shows how fast deinstitutionalization of conservation policies can take place. Traditions of conservation are disrupted as an unintended consequence […]
Natural Resource Governance in Georgie
In the past two weeks we visited three national parks in Georgia (Vashlovani, Lagodekhi and Tusheti). The aim of our visit was to study transition and innovation in natural resource governance. We combined field observations with interviews with a wide range of stakeholders involved in the planning and management of these areas. Georgia is an interesting […]
De performatieve macht van mislukking. M...
De implementatie van Natura 2000 heeft in Nederland tot veel discussie en commotie geleid. Tijdens honderden inspraak- en informatie avonden en via allerlei artikelen in dagbladen, tijdschriften en op het internet, is het Natura 2000 beleid door velen bekritiseerd. Ook in politieke arena’s is regelmatig in negatieve zin gesproken over Natura 2000, met als spraakmakende […]
Crossing trails in the marshes: rigidity...
In this paper, we revisit the utility of the concepts of path dependence and interdependence for the analysis of participatory environmental governance. We investigate the evolution of environmental governance in the Romanian Danube Delta, and, starting from an observation of problematic citizen participation, demonstrate how specific patterns of path and interdependence shaped both the […]
The governance of Natura 2000 sites
The management of Natura 2000 sites faces several challenges. Responsible authorities need to achieve specific conservation objectives and they need to balance these objectives with social and economic interests. A study of two cases, one in England and one in the Netherlands, shows that the initial choices about the organisation of a deliberative planning process […]
Delineating Locals: Transformations of K...
Citizens participation is gaining a lot of attention, both in research and practice. In an article publish in the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning we argue that the careful analysis of the pathways of emergence, enactment and implmentation of policies affecting an area helps to get a better understanding of the potential for citizen […]