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Li, X. (author), Kleinhans, R.J. (author), van Ham, M. (author)Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and society in urban restructuring. Since 2008, the central state has initiated the Shantytown Redevelopment Projects (SRPs) to improve the living conditions of low-income residents. Between 2008 and 2012, about 12.6 million...working paper 2016
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Rukanova, B.D. (author), Henningsson, S. (author), Henkriksen, H.Z. (author), Tan, Y. (author)In global supply chains information about transactions resides in fragmented pockets within business and government systems. The lack of reliable, accurate and complete information makes it hard to detect risks (such as safety, security, compliance, commercial) and at the same time makes international trade inefficient. The introduction of...working paper 2016
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Van Loenen, B. (author), Welle Donker, F. (author)Teneinde een kansrijke opendatastrategie te ontwikkelen is het van belang om de bepalende factoren van open data integraal in onderling verband te bezien. Een opendata-beoordelings-raamwerk kan de basis vormen voor zo’n integrale benadering. Op basis van zo’n beoordelingsraamwerk kan een onderbouwde keuze worden gemaakt voor acties die ervoor...report 2014
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Klievink, A.J. (author), Aldewereld, H.M. (author), Knol, A. (author), Tan, Y.H. (author)The Extended Single Window (ESW) project aims to support goods flows by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Specifically, the project takes the concept of Single Windows (often used in the sense that governments offer a single portal or interface to which businesses can submit information, supporting re-ruse by multiple agencies and...report 2014
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The Confronting Informality Symposium is a student-led event sponsored by the Chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy at the Department of Urbanism, TU Delft University of Technology. The symposium happens once a year and gathers experts, policy-makers, practitioners and others to discuss informal urbanisation, its political, economic and...report 2018
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Geise, Jonas (author), Jonkman, Arend (author)Fietsen is in transitie van een voornamelijk lokale naar een ook regionale modaliteit. De grote populariteit van de elektrische fiets vormt de drijfveer om snelfietsroutes en campagnes te ontwikkelen, maar wie is verantwoordelijk voor de regionale fietser?report 2020
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Van Overmeeren, A.J. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author)This article analyzes the function, design, and effects of a method to assess the performance of housing associations in the Netherlands. First, the roles of performance assessment are discussed from three perspectives: the association as an agent for the central government; the association as a facilitator of local stakeholders’ needs; and the...journal article 2009
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Slinger, J.H. (author), Hilders, M. (author), Juizo, D. (author)The Incomati River Basin is shared by Mozambique, South Africa, and Swaziland. In August 2002, the groundbreaking “Tripartite Interim Agreement on Water Sharing of the Maputo and Incomati Rivers” (the IncoMaputo agreement) was signed. Following reports that the use, availability, and adequacy of information posed problems for future decision...journal article 2010
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Blank, J.L.T. (author), Van Hulst, B.L. (author)This paper describes the efficiency of Dutch hospitals using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method with bootstrapping. In particular, the analysis focuses on accounting for cost inefficiency measures on the part of hospital corporate governance. We use bootstrap techniques, as introduced by Simar and Wilson (J. Econom. 136(1):31–64, 2007),...journal article 2010
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Mostert, E. (author)One of the central tenets of adaptive management is polycentric governance. Yet, despite the popularity of the concept, few detailed case studies of polycentric governance systems exist. In this paper, we aim to partly fill this gap. We describe water management between the years 1000 and 1953 on the Dutch island of IJsselmonde in the...journal article 2012
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Van Veenstra, A.F. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Klievink, B. (author)Joining-up is high on the e-government agenda as this is expected to improve service delivery to citizens and businesses. It requires public and private organizations to cooperate with each other within networks that are formed around public services that cross the boundaries of organizations. Cross-organizational processes in such a network are...journal article 2009
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Hoppe, T. (author), Van Bueren, E.M. (author)Cities form the key context within which social, economic and environmental challenges for sustainable development will manifest in the years to come. As they face the grand societal challenges of climate change and the greening of energy systems, city governments are confronted with the challenge of designing and implementing workable policy...journal article 2015
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Klievink, A.J. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Information infrastructures of businesses and government are increasingly interwoven and highly dependent on each other. Though often referred to as sociotechnical innovations, the development of these information infrastructures often has a technological focus. The related and even concurrent development of new social practices is understudied....journal article 2014
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De Bruijn, J.A. (author), De Bruijne, M.L.C. (author), Ten Heuvelhof, E.F. (author)An increased focus on the concept of resilience in flood protection has led to the development of a comprehensive flood protection strategy in the Netherlands which stresses the need to provide ‘Room for the River’ rather than building dykes. But how can a resilient solution in flood protection be successfully implemented? Using insights from...journal article 2015
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Frantzeskaki, N. (author), Tillie, N.M.J.D. (author)We explore whether Rotterdam city has the governance capacity in terms of processes at place, and the attention in terms of vision and strategy to take up an integrated approach toward urban resilience. We adopt an interpretative policy analysis approach to assess the dynamics of urban ecosystem governance considering interviews, gray literature...journal article 2014
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Groenleer, M.L.P. (author), Mijs, A. (author), Ten Heuvelhof, E.F. (author), Meeuwen, B. (author), Van der Puil, J. (author)A key challenge that European decision-makers struggle with today is regulating and governing the European financial and economic system in a way that is both effective and legitimate. To help address this challenge, this paper asks why regulatory gaps occurred and European governance has been weak, and how these gaps and weaknesses allowed...journal article 2014
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Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Charalabidis, Y. (author), Zuiderwijk, A.M.G. (author)Although a significant number of public organizations have embraced the idea of open data, many are still reluctant to do this. One root cause is that the publicizing of data represents a shift from a closed to an open system of governance, which has a significant impact upon the relationships between public agencies and the users of open data....journal article 2012
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Van der Pennen, A.W. (author), Van Bortel, G.A. (author)Often institutional solutions such as structures and organisations are seen as best practices in neighbourhood renewal. Using empirical case study data from the Netherlands and the UK, this paper demonstrates that there should be more attention for the role of individual urban practitioners. The relevance of this conclusion goes beyond the...journal article 2015
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Hauser, S.J. (author)Port authorities who once considered the inclusion of local actors in the decision-making process a threat to efficiency have begun to see their inclusion as an opportunity. The notion of inclusion can bring together the sometimes diverging objectives of port and city actors. In the Northern Range – the most important European ports between Le...journal article 2019
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van Bortel, G.A. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author)Affordable housing is increasingly developed, financed and managed by a mix of state, third-sector, market and community actors. This has led to the emergence of various hybrid governance and finance arrangements. This development can be seen as part of a general long-term neoliberal trend in government policies, and social, cultural and...journal article 2019