Economische gevolgen van de PKB Waddenzee in de Kop van Noord-Holland. Een beoordeling van het ECORYS-NEI rapport, 2003.

In deze notitie van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is het fundament van de conclusies van het ECORYS-NEI rapport “Sociaal-economisch perspectief voor Waddenzeegemeenten in Kop van Noord-Holland - Den Helder, Texel, Wieringen, Anna Palowna” beoordeeld. De Waddenvereniging heeft de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen hierom gevraagd. Het nauwkeurig lezen van het rapport is door de RUG als belangrijkste onderzoeksinstrument gebruikt; nauwkeurig lezen tegen de achtergrond van bestaande algemene en wetenschappelijke kennis over enerzijds de Nederlandse economie en anderzijds economische evaluatie methoden. De belangrijkste conclusie van het ECORYS-NEI rapport, namelijk dat er door de beperkingen van PKB 1993 en de PKB 2001 in het jaar 2015 binnen de vier gemeenten in de Kop van Noord-Holland een totaal van 4234 arbeidsplaatsen minder zullen zijn dan in de situatie zonder PKB’s, blijkt vrijwel zonder fundament. Slechts voor 111 arbeidsplaatsen is sprake van een verantwoorde, zij het maximale, schatting. Het gaat hierbij dan om drie projecten c.q. sectoren: windmolens aan het wad, visserij en recreatie. Verreweg het best geslaagde deel van het rapport is het zes pagina’s tellende Hoofdstuk 5. Dit hoofdstuk identificeert specifieke kansrijke economische ontwikkelingen in de Kop van Noord-Holland in het licht van enerzijds de ontwikkelingen rond de Waddenzee, en anderzijds de duurzame ambities van de regio. De lijst met kansen en mogelijkheden kan een goede inspiratiebron zijn voor verschillende partijen die op zoek zijn naar vruchtbare of niet strijdige combinaties van ecologie en economie

A portfolio of natural places:Using a participatory GIS tool to compare the appreciation and use of green spaces inside and outside urban areas by urban residents

Green space at different distances is important for the wellbeing of urban dwellers. However, since these different types of green space are, for the most part, investigated in separate studies, it is difficult to disentangle how the use and appreciation of nearby and more distant nature by urban dwellers is related. To address this issue, we conduct an analysis in which we directly compare the appreciation and use of green spaces at four different spatial levels: neighbourhood, region, national, and world level, for urban residents in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. For this we use a quantitative, internet-based, participatory GIS method. The relationship between the use of local and more distant green spaces by urban dwellers has generally been addressed in terms of compensation. Our results indicate that this relationship can also be viewed in a complementary way. Urban residents appear to have a 'portfolio of natural places'. This portfolio consists of favourite places nearby that are rated lower but visited quite often, and natural places that they find highly attractive but are located farther away and visited less often. Local favourite places offer basic access to green and nature while other more distant natural places offer a larger variety of qualities and recreational possibilities. Results also indicate that, in order to meet the needs of urban residents, more than the immediate urban context needs to be considered in urban planning. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Sustainable Tourism in the Wadden Sea Region:key mechanisms to overcome barriers to sustainability

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Identifying Citizens' Place Values for Integrated Planning of Road Infrastructure Projects

Projects for road infrastructure and spatial development easily meet public resistance because of a lack of local knowledge of place values by (often non-local) planners. The aim of this study is to explore how insights in place values might improve the local knowledge base for planners of integrated road infrastructure projects and spatial development. We developed, tested and analysed the results from a novel online value-mapping tool called the ‘Place Value Identifier’. The developed method allows us to (i) relate to ‘soft’ valuable places identified by Public Participation GIS as a complement to ‘hard’ land use data, (ii) define Valued yet Unprotected places based on combining ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ values and (iii) illustrate how these insights can be used for integrated planning of road infrastructure projects. The findings of this study show the increased potential of value mapping techniques and illustrate possible resistance areas around road infrastructure planning projects. This knowledge may assist planners in creating and selecting acceptable project alternatives that may invoke high public acceptance

Depopulation and ecological degradation, two dimensions of marginalization, and peripheralization. Ecosystem integrity as an assessment factor in local revitalization

Addressing the pressure that population growth puts on the environment has become a high-level policy priority. Less discussed is the role of population decline in either enhancing or degrading the natural environment, and how the its reshaping can help new forms of de-peripheralization and de-marginalization. A long-term trajectory of marginalization and peripheralization of depopulating places can be reversed in certain situations by adopting a more holistic and sustainable analytical and policy framing. To do this, here we integrate different types of diagnosis frameworks. The first, based on factors that the literature indicates as factors leading to negative effects of depopulation, for which the revitalization of such places is suggested, and the second, proposed in this paper, which adds the integrity of the ecosystems involved in places undergoing depopulation processes. Our findings suggest that as we add ecosystem integrity factor to observations, in some cases, revitalization is possible even in the localities displaying the potentially negative effects of depopulation decrease. This suggests that whereas in some places a policy-managed abandonment may be appropriate to release human pressures over such degraded ecosystems, in other cases, revitalization may be a viable alternative for such settlements.</p