Participatieve monitoring in Lumbricus : Een brug tussen innovatie en implementatie

Nederland staat voor een aantal grote uitdagingen op het gebied van het waterbeheer, dat heeft de zomer van 2018 nog maar eens extra duidelijk gemaakt. Omdat het klimaat verandert krijgen we vaker te maken met extreme neerslag en langdurige perioden van droogte. Dit heeft direct consequenties voor onder andere de waterkwaliteit en de waterkwantiteit. Op de hoger gelegen zandgronden in Nederland zijn deze consequenties zo mogelijk nog groter omdat hier de mogelijkheden om water tijdelijk te bergen of van elders aan te voeren vaak veel beperkter zijn

The global subject of precarity

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Beyond the merchant and the clergyman: assessing moral claims about development cooperation

This article proposes to move beyond the categories of altruism and self-interest in the analyses of the motives for development cooperation. This opposition ignores the inherently moral nature of development policy. The article illustrates the shortcomings of such a perspective by tracing the metaphor of the merchant and the clergyman as archetypical figures shaping Dutch development policy. Through these images the suggestion of an opposition between moral and amoral motives in the history of development has gained a strong foothold within the interplay of scholars, policy makers and public opinion. We go on to assess claims about economy, security, solidarity, prestige and guilt, and ecology, which have been brought forward to legitimise Dutch foreign aid. This analysis calls for research on the dynamics of the transnational exchanges of ideas, interests and expectations, especially during episodes when the moral validity of policy has been explicitly contested

The Pilot Paradox : Exploring Tensions between Internal and External Success Factors in Dutch Climate Adaptation Projects

Local sustainability experimentation is a topical issue, as cities and rural municipalities are increasingly taking the initiative in leading on climate action, whereas national governments and technology proponents are more and more conceiving of such initiatives as experiments. There is limited understanding of exactly what such experiments aim to achieve: what they are testing and how success or failure in such experiments is evaluated. We examine two emblematic Finnish local experiments: Kalasatama in Helsinki, a national pilot project in renewable energy and smart grid technology, and the Carbon-Neutral Municipalities programme engaging small and medium-sized municipalities in experimentation with solutions for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Through these examples, we reflect on the problem of evaluating local sustainability experiments and the lessons that can be drawn from them for climate governance