This paper reflects on the performance and endurance of long-term perspectives and their impact on strategies, institutional change and material effects. In the past decades, the long-term perspective of a national ecological network has been a key element of Dutch nature conservation policy. By focusing on the temporal, procedural and discursive dimensions of Dutch nature […]
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Comparative Planning Research
In this article, the authors develop a perspective on the value of, and methodologies for, comparative planning research. Through comparative research, similarities and differences between planning cases and experiences can be disentangled. This opens up possibilities for learning across planning systems, and possibly even the transfer of best planning and policy practices across systems, places, […]
Research methods as bridging devices
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential, both analytically and practically, of understanding research methods as bridging devices. Methods can bridge theory and empirics, but it is argued that they can perform several bridging functions: between theory and praxis, between analysis and strategy and between past and future. The focus is on […]
Trusting the People and the System
Agri-environmental schemes have been introduced in numerous countries to combat biodiversity loss in agrarian landscapes that are important for both food production and biodiversity. The successful operation of such schemes depends strongly upon trust between actors involved, as well as trust in institutions that govern these schemes. However, the interplay between interpersonal and institutional trust […]
Spatial planning and place branding: ret...
Spatial planning and place branding are allies in the discovery and creation of place narratives and assets as well as in contributing to spatial transformation or the improvement of the socio-spatial and spatial-economic conditions of a place. However, the existing and potential linkages between spatial planning and place branding are yet to be explored by […]
‘Niet alles kan’, en zelfs dat niet
Op woensdagavond 25 september 2019 kwam het adviescollege Remkes met het langverwachte advies over het aanpakken van de veel te hoge stikstofdepositie in Nederland. De belangstelling voor het advies en de maatregelen die daar in zouden staan was zo groot dat de website waarop de presentatie live werd uitgezonden slecht bereikbaar was. Net als de […]
Natuurbeleid, implementatie ervaringen e...
De Vogel- en Habitatrichtlijnen vormen de basis voor het natuurbeleid van de Europese Unie. Via dit beleid hebben de lidstaten afgesproken om soorten en hun leefgebied te beschermen. De richtlijnen zijn lang geleden aangenomen, de Vogelrichtlijn in 1979 en de Habitatrichtlijn in 1992. In 2016 zijn de resultaten van een uitgebreide evaluatie van dit beleid […]
Beheerplannen voor Natura 2000 gebieden
De Vogelrichtlijn (1979) en de Habitatrichtlijn (1992) vormen de basis van het natuurbeleid van de Europese Unie. Het doel van deze richtlijnen is te zorgen voor een goede bescherming van soorten en hun leefgebieden. Als onderdeel van het beleid hebben alle landen gebieden met bijzondere natuurwaarden geïdentificeerd en aangewezen als beschermd natuurgebied. Deze gebieden vormen […]
Citizens increasingly want to become active participants in urban planning and governments increasingly put in effort to ensure inclusive planning processes. This paper analyzes the institutional work that underlies the attempt to institutionalize a more active role of citizens in urban planning. It draws on a case in which a group of citizens aims to […]
Handbook of Planning Theory
Spatial planning is increasingly gaining renewed attention as an invaluable tool for addressing all kinds of socio-environmental issues. However what planning is and could be in contemporary society often differs from those forms of planning that classic readings on planning elaborate on. The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory therefore presents a timely and very welcome […]