Op 26 september organiseert de WUR een studiemiddag over de implementatie van het EU natuurbeschermingsbeleid (Vogel- en Habitatrichtlijnen/Natura 2000) in Nederland. Speciale aandacht gaat daarbij uit naar vergunningverlening en handhaving, de rol van beheerplannen en de programmatische aanpak stikstof (PAS). Aanmelden kan via deze website. Iedereen die zich van te voren nog eens wil verdiepen […]
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Category: Nature conservation
Hoe natuurinclusief zijn rijksprojecten?
In de Rijksnatuurvisie ‘Natuurlijk Verder’ zijn de concepten natuurcombinaties en natuurinclusief geïntroduceerd. In deze studie is nagegaan of rijksoverheden in rijksprojecten zelf met natuurcombinaties en natuurinclusief werken en welke mogelijkheden er zijn om deze manier van werken te versterken. Om het onderzoek uit te voeren, is gebruik gemaakt van inzichten uit Evolutionary Governance Theory. Dit […]
EU Nature Legislation: facilitate innova...
The set-up of the Fitness Check of the Birds and Habitats Directive strongly indicates a political wish to reform legislation. Drawing on numerous studies towards the implementation of EU Nature Legislation I advice against such reform as its costs are likely to exceed the benefits it will bring. It would be more sensible to facilitate […]
The construction of legitimacy in Europe...
Turnhout, E. Behagel, J., Ferranti, F. & Beunen, R. 2015. The construction of legitimacy in European nature policy: expertise and participation in the service of cost-effectiveness. Environmental Politics. Online first. In environmental governance, the European Union draws on norms of effectiveness, decentralisation, and participation to ensure that its policies and regulations are considered legitimate. This article analyses how the […]
Understanding the interrelation between ...
Land acquisition is the beginning of many land use changes. Both governments and private investors use land acquisition to gain power over land use. Knowledge on land acquisition is thus important for understanding and influencing the way land is used. Land acquisition can be complex and opaque, due to the involvement of a variety of […]
Shifting nature conservation approaches ...
This paper analyses Natura 2000 as a shifting configuration of different approaches to nature conservation and discusses the consequences of these shifts for the roles of the stakeholders affected by this policy. Natura 2000 started with a technocratic approach that privileged conservation experts and marginalised socio-economic stakeholders. Over time, this approach has been complemented with […]
Contested delineations. Planning, law an...
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 […]
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 […]