Incentives to contribute to flood adaptation in cities : Stakeholder analyses in Belgium, the UK and the Netherlands

Increasingly, urban stakeholders are becoming more engaged in contributing to reducing the intensified flooding risks due to climate change in Belgium, the UK and the Netherlands. The aim of this study is to motivate stakeholder engagement for urban flood management. A template is provided including a total of four steps defining stakeholder positions, task roles and barriers, and showing how to deal with the barriers by suggesting communication levels, strategies and approaches. Overall, green solutions to drainage are thought to be favourable to quality of life, recreation, playground, air quality, health, heat stress, and depending on levels of inclusiveness, green can also contribute to social cohesion

Triple helix networks matching knowledge demand and supply in seven Dutch horticulture Greenport regions

This paper investigates the triple helix (industry, knowledge workers and governments) cooperation on knowledge co-production and valorisation for innovation, which took place in seven horticultural regions in the Netherlands. It thus provides more empirical insight into the functioning of this form of cooperation. Based on a secondary multiple case study analysis, this paper sets out to ascertain what enabled triple helix cooperation in the seven regions with respect to the organisation, the formulation and support for goals and action on knowledge co-production and valorisation. The results indicate that in order to stimulate innovation through triple helix cooperation, the different partners fi rst need to build a proper working relationship and a common language. In order to accomplish this, primary aims for innovation should not be formulated too ambitiously (i.e. too far beyond the entrepreneurs’ daily practice, in particular SMEs). Knowledge workers and policy makers often want to stimulate knowledge co-production and valorisation more radically and quickly. Hence, they have to temper their ambitions. Procedures regarding the cooperation should be rather simple and fl exible. Once a steady working relationship and a common language are developed, then the triple helix collaboration can focus on taking the innovation ambition to a higher level in order to realise more valuable change. At first, entrepreneurs have to experience how they can profit from the cooperation and learn to incorporate knowledge co-production and valorisation step-by-step in their business strategy, including fi nancial investments

Transition support system approach for urban food security in the future : The case of Ghana

The population of the world is becoming increasingly urbanised due to a combination of natural population growth and rural–urban migration. This will pose major challenges to feed the future population and meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Meeting these complex challenges requires an integrated approach. The transition support system (TSS) approach integrates decision support tools and stakeholder analyses for these complex issues. This study has focused attention on the application of decision support tools of the TSS approach that visualises the urgency of future food security as a proof of concept. To this end, the future food security of the city of Accra, the capital of Ghana, has been taken as a case study. The use of Global-Detector and its maps illustrated a quick way to downscale data and projections from MAGNET (Modular Applied GeNeral Equilibrium Tool) and perform spatial analyses without the burden of acquiring additional data. Downscaling of macroeconomic results of future projections provides insights into future urban food security. Giventhese insights, stakeholders might urge policy or interventions. The results of the exercise are largely determined by the availability of data and maps; in particular, the more detailed information is available, the more accurate the results of our exercise will be

De bijdrage van de vastgoedsector aan een natuurinclusieve leefomgeving : Achtergrondrapport

The real estate industry can play a key role in a wider transition to a nature-inclusive living environment that offers social, economic and ecological resilience. In this research, we look explicitly for a pro-active green contribution from the industry to the liveability and resilience of urban areas. To set such practices in motion, we are looking for points of departure in the considerations being made by different actors in the real estate industry. We do this by developing a transition approach for nature-inclusive enterprise. This approach looks at the real estate industry more widely, including landowners, investors, architects, property owners and project developers

Een breder bereik van kennis en innovatie : Kennisdeling en leren rond biodiversiteit binnen de kringlooplandbouw

This research studied how the interaction between science and practice (vertical) and practice (horizontal) is experienced and can be accelerated. The aim is to share knowledge more efficiently, to learn from each other and to create new networks. The focus is on networks and area-oriented approaches within dairy farming and arable farming. The main focus is on reaching and stimulating entrepreneurs, crucial points to accelerate knowledge sharing and learning, what knowledge is needed and how networks can be connected and new ones can be set up

Een breder bereik van kennis en innovatie : kennisdeling en leren rond biodiversiteit binnen de kringlooplandbouw, deel 2

This research studied how the interaction between science and practice (vertical) and practice (horizontal) is experienced and can be accelerated. The aim is to share knowledge more efficiently, to learn from each other and to create new networks. The focus is on networks and area-oriented approaches within dairy farming and arable farming. The main focus is on reaching and stimulating entrepreneurs, crucial points to accelerate knowledge sharing and learning, what knowledge is needed and how networks can be connected and new ones can be set up

Tools for transition

At the moment, many toolboxes for stakeholder engagement exist. This document describes approaches, methods and techniques that can be applied when involving stakeholders in the process of developing transition pathways to a sustainable food system