Stakeholderoverzicht Droge Voeten 2050 : opbrengst van workshop stakeholderanalyse 4 juli 2011

In 2011 zijn de provincies Groningen, Drenthe en Friesland en de waterschappen Noorderzijlvest, Hunze & Aa’s en Wetterskip Fryslân gestart met een verkenning naar maatregelen tegen wateroverlast vanuit de boezemsystemen. De verwachte klimaatverandering, bodemdaling door gaswinning en de mogelijke verhoging van de veiligheidsnormen vormen de aanleiding voor de verkenning. De studie Droge Voeten 2050, initieel HOWA (Hoog-Water) 3 genoemd, volgt op de eerdere studies HOWA 1, HOWA 2 en de quickscan HOWA 3. In de projectperiode tot 2014 dienen de gevolgen van de drie genoemde ontwikkelingen op de boezemsystemen in kaart gebracht te zijn

The interplay of meaning and power in the science-policy-society triangle: powering, puzzling and co-producing climate change adaptation

Decision-making in relation to climate change is knowledge-intensive. Without systematic observations and advanced mathematical models, even awareness of climate change would be very limited. At the same time, important uncertainties about the nature and scale of risks and the effectiveness of solutions will persist. In addition, climate change is also a high-stake issue, affecting a range of sectors and policy domains. Taking climate change mitigation seriously requires drastically reconsidering current practice in domains like energy, transport, agriculture, housing etc. Depending on the severity and timing of climate impacts, more or less drastic adjustments will be needed in domains like water management, spatial planning, agriculture, tourism, nature etc

Enhancing volunteer engagement to achieve desirable outcomes: what can non-profit employers do?

Abstract Engagement is a positive psychological state that is linked with a range of beneficial individual and organizational outcomes. However, the factors associated with volunteer engagement have rarely been examined. Data from 1064 volunteers of a wildlife charity in the United Kingdom revealed that both task- and emotion-oriented organizational support were positively related to volunteer engagement, and volunteer engagement was positively related to volunteer happiness and perceived social worth and negatively related to intent to leave the voluntary organization. Consistent with theory, engagement acted as a mediator between these factors. The implications for future research and the relevance of the findings for voluntary organizations are discussed

The undebated issue of justice: silent discourses in Dutch flood risk management

Flood risk for all types of flooding is projected to increase based on climate change projections and increases in damage potential. These challenges are likely to aggravate issues of justice in flood risk management (henceforth FRM). Based on a discursive-institutionalist perspective, this paper explores justice in Dutch FRM: how do institutions allocate the responsibilities and costs for FRM for different types of flooding? What are the underlying conceptions of justice? What are the future challenges with regard to climate change? The research revealed that a dichotomy is visible in the Dutch approach to FRM: despite an abundance of rules, regulations and resources spent, flood risk or its management, are only marginally discussed in terms of justice. Despite that the current institutional arrangement has material outcomes that treat particular groups of citizens differently, depending on the type of flooding they are prone to, area they live in (unembanked/embanked) or category of user (e.g. household, industry, farmer). The paper argues that the debate on justice will (re)emerge, since the differences in distributional outcomes are likely to become increasingly uneven as a result of increasing flood risk. The Netherlands should be prepared for this debate by generating the relevant facts and figures. An inclusive debate on the distribution of burdens of FRM could contribute to more effective and legitimate FRM

Erratum to: 36th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

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Motivation and satisfaction of volunteers for community-based urban agriculture programmes

Urban agriculture means cultivating plants and raising livestock within cities for food and other uses. A Community‐based Urban Agriculture Programme is where people from residential areas get together as volunteers to practise urban agriculture in an empty space within residential areas. However, the programme encounters problems when it is incapable of attracting enough volunteers and retaining them in order to establish a sustainable programme. This study aims to determine the relationship between the dimensions of motivation and satisfaction of volunteers on the Community‐based Urban Agriculture Programme. Data collected from 375 volunteers on the Community‐based Urban Agriculture Programme in Klang Valley, Malaysia were analysed using descriptive analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. It was found that the most significant predictor of Community‐based Urban Agriculture Programme volunteers’ satisfaction was favoured by external factors such as campaigns, support groups, Department of Extension, and community as well as government policy, followed by love of farming, social referents, and values. Therefore, there should be a focus on the above‐mentioned dimensions of motivation in order to enhance the satisfaction of volunteers towards the Community‐based Urban Agriculture Programme

Do state traditions matter? Comparing deliberative governance initiatives for climate change adaptation in Dutch corporatism and British pluralism

Contains fulltext : 139985_1.pdf (preprint version ) (Open Access) Contains fulltext : 139985.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)In the emerging field of climate adaptation, deliberative governance initiatives are proposed to yield better adaptation strategies. However, introducing these network-centred deliberations between public and private players may contrast with institutionalized traditions of interest intermediation between state and society. This paper shows how these so-called state traditions affect the processes and outcomes of newly set up deliberative governance initiatives. Because of the similarities in geographical characteristics and the differences in state tradition we conducted a qualitative case study comparison of Dutch and British water management. Our comparison is two-fold. First, we compare deliberative governance initiatives in the different state traditions of the Netherlands and UK. Second, we compare the newly set up deliberative governance initiative to an existing policy regime mainstreaming climate adaptation in a similar state tradition, in our case the Netherlands. We find that: (1) deliberative governance initiatives in the corporatist state tradition of the Netherlands yields learning but shows apathy among politically elected decision-makers compared to deliberative governance initiatives in the pluralist state tradition of the UK where clearly defined rules and responsibilities yields negotiation and action; and (2) a typical corporatist policy regime mainstreaming climate adaption in a corporatist state tradition yields effective and legitimate policy formation but lacks learning.12 januari 201518 p

Understanding institutionalized ways of knowing climate risks: reflections on action research for participatory knowledge production

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Participation under a spell of instrumentalization? Reflections on action research in an entrenched climate adaptation policy process

The article discusses action research in a Dutch intergovernmental project group DV2050. That group was to assess the effects of climate change and soil subsidence on the regional water system and to propose adaptive policies to increase regional water safety. In this study, we draw a parallel between the stakeholder participation trajectory of DV2050 and our collaborative learning trajectory within the DV2050 project. In the academic literature, both participatory policy-making and action research are advocated for instrumental, normative and quality reasons. In our case, both trajectories took place in an entrenched context, i.e. a strongly institutionalized environment in which the involved governments compete for competencies. Despite broader ambitions stated at the beginning of these trajectories, we explain that both became instrumentalized by actors involved, narrowing their scope. Instrumentalization was influenced by powerful interests, a strongly institutionalized science–policy interface and the pressure of imminent decision-making. Keywords: participation; instrumentalization; science–policy interface; action research; climate adaptation; water managemen