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Carella, Fabio (author), De Martino, P. (author), Soffietti, Folco (author), Negretto, Vittore (author), Musco, Francesco (author)The Italian coast has about 700 ports, which are different in typology, dimension, role, and ownership. Historically, this has led to the significant fragmentation of governance and space and a lack of cooperation that ports and cities still experience today. Among all ports, small and medium-sized ports (SMPs), such as marinas, small...journal article 2024
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Røsok, O.P. (author), de Bruijne, M.L.C. (author), Veeneman, Wijnand (author)The interdependencies between infrastructures are growing. Engineering decision making that earlier was largely confined to a specific sector now requires more and more understanding of how systems interact: a system-of-systems perspective. The article analyzes the effect of that added complexity in a single case study in de Zuid-As, Amsterdam,...journal article 2023
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Ninan, Dr Johan (author), Clegg, Stewart (author), Mahalingam, Ashwin (author), Sankaran, Shankar (author)City rebuilding precincts are embedded in, surrounded by, and sometimes resisted or celebrated by stakeholders they impact. These projects require long-lasting relationships and loyalty from the community they serve, making trust a crucial factor. This article employs a case study approach and draws from both social exchange and circuit of power...journal article 2023
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Wever, Mark (author), Romera, Alvaro (author), Shah, Munir (author), Wognum, Nel (author)Researchers are increasingly working in large, integrated science programmes. This is supposed to lead to several benefits, including creating and enhancing synergies amongst projects, improving collaboration and knowledge exchanges amongst researchers from different disciplines, and generating a higher return on investments in R&D. In...journal article 2023
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Anthopoulos, Leonidas (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Weerakkody, Vishanth (author)City digital transformation is being performed across the globe and it is being supported by several initiatives and policy groups. Nevertheless, this transformation is mainly technology oriented. Although there have been several interesting and impactful outcomes, like solutions for enhancing municipal efficiency and local living, the results...journal article 2023
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Ofe, H.A. (author), Sandberg, Johan (author)Digital ecosystem governance entails the management of complex, dynamic power relationships. As entrant platform providers seek to cultivate an ecosystem, they must carefully navigate these power relationships when dealing with governance tensions. Providers generally seek to leverage the ecosystem's generative potential by facilitating a...journal article 2023
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Cunha Ferreira, Teresa (author), Rey-Pérez, Julia (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author), Tarrafa Silva, A. (author), Coimbra, Isabel (author), Breda Vazquez, Isabel (author)Governance, and specifically local management and institutional systems, is among the key factors affecting the management of World Heritage (WH) properties in urban contexts. The adoption of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL approach) promotes a governance reform towards more inclusive and integrated...journal article 2023
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Nefs, Merten (author), Daamen, T.A. (author)In Europe, very large distribution centres (XXL DCs) are increasingly appearing on planning agendas due to their growing spatial footprint and environmental impacts. Although the emergence of XXL DCs has gained traction in academic research, empirical knowledge about the process that leads to their oft-debated location choice, geometry and...journal article 2022
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Benchaya Gans, R (author), Ubacht, J. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Traditionally, governments and companies store data to identify persons for services provision and interactions. The rise of self-sovereign identities (SSIs) based on blockchain technologies provides individuals with ownership and control over their personal data and allows them to share their data with others using a sort of “digital safe.”...journal article 2022
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Simonofski, Anthony (author), Tombal, Thomas (author), De Terwangne, Cécile (author), Willem, Pauline (author), Frenay, Benoît (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Fraud analytics refers to the use of advanced analytics (data mining, big data analysis, or artificial intelligence) to detect fraud. While fraud analytics offers the promise of more efficiency in fighting fraud, it also raises legal challenges related to data protection and administrative law. These legal requirements are well documented but...journal article 2022
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Leclercq, E.M. (author), Rijshouwer, Emiel A. (author)In response to increasingly deterministic and all-encompassing implementation of smart city technologies, scholars and activists plea for policies and initiatives to support citizens’ democratic ‘Right to the Smart City.’ Although it is common for government officials and technology companies to make an effort to support citizen participation in...journal article 2022
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Slingerland, G. (author), Edua-Mensah, M.E.J. (author), van Gils, M.M.S. (author), Kleinhans, R.J. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)This paper studies how residents in the neighbourhood Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) have dealt with the COVID-19 restrictions. Prior to the pandemic, significant investments in community-building were made to increase resilience of individuals and communities in BoTu. This paper identifies the key assets BoTu residents had developed and actually...journal article 2022
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Masso, Anu (author), Chukwu, Martha (author), Calzati, S. (author)This study explores relocated algorithmic governance through a qualitative study of the Ubenwa health app. The Ubenwa, which was developed in Canada based on a dataset of babies from Mexico, is currently being implemented in Nigeria to detect birth asphyxia. The app serves as an ideal case for examining the socio-cultural negotiations...journal article 2022
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Juhola, Sirkku (author), Filatova, T. (author), Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan (author), Mechler, Reinhard (author), Scheffran, Jürgen (author), Schweizer, Pia Johanna (author)Physical tipping points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the biosphere. Social tipping points have been framed as mechanisms in socio-environmental systems, where a small change in the underlying elements or behavior of...journal article 2022
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Stead, D. (author)While many policy tools can be used to develop spatial plans and implement their goals, there have been very few academic attempts to classify and illustrate the whole range of tools available. This article reviews the different ways in which planning tools have been conceptualized to date and highlights a wide variation in their...journal article 2021
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Purkarthofer, E. (author), Granqvist, Kaisa (author)This article analyses the academic concept of “soft spaces” from the perspective of traveling planning ideas. The concept has its origin in the United Kingdom but has also been used in other contexts. Within European Union policy-making, the term soft planning has emerged to describe the processes of cooperation and learning with an unclear...journal article 2021
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Rikken, O.K. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Roosenboom-Kwee, Z. (author), Büttgen, Marion (author), Dicenta, Julia (author), Spohrer, Kai (author), Venkatesh, Viswanath (author), Raman, Rajalakshmi (author), Hoehle, Hartmut (author), De Keyser, Arne (author)As blockchain technology is maturing to be confidently used in practice, its applications are becoming evident and, correspondingly, more blockchain research is being published, also extending to more domains than before. To date, scientific research in the field has predominantly focused on subject areas such as finance, computer science, and...journal article 2021
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Purkarthofer, E. (author), Sielker, Franziska (author), Stead, D. (author)Both planning practice and research increasingly acknowledge the existence of new scales and governance arrangements alongside and between statutory planning systems. Examples of new scales of non-statutory planning are large-scale megaregions and macro-regions. Drawing on examples from North America and Europe (Southern California and the...journal article 2021
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den Hartog, Harry (author)Recent ecological civilization policies make clear that China is willing to play a leading role in a sustainable green transition. But there are still discrepancies in definitions, appreciation and evaluation of ecological assets. This paper examines how Shanghai works on a sustainability transition, with a focus on its main urban waterfronts...journal article 2021
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Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author), He, J. (author), Yu, Feng (author)Although the cities in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China are amongst the world’s cities most exposed to flooding due to climate change, surprisingly little is done to address this problem. This article explores the barriers to the emergence of policies adapting to the growing flood risk in two PRD cities, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, underlining...journal article 2021