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van Bueren, Ellen (author)Cities, as economic and cultural centres in our society, are major consumers of resources. They not only contribute to problems such as climate change, but also experience the risks and consequences thereof. Technological solutions to these problems are difficult to implement. They require larger-scale system changes, or encounter resistance....journal article 2019
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van de Velde, Didier (author)Splitsing van het spoorbedrijf in een vervoers- en infrastructuurbedrijf wordt vaak als noodzakelijk voor eerlijke concurrentie op het spoor gezien. Aan zo’n splitsing kleven echter ook nadelen en er zijn andere concurrentiegerichte hervormingen. Een verkenning van de alternatieven.journal article 2019
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van de Velde, Didier (author)De huidige NS-concessie geldt tot 2025. Vanuit de EU wordt er aangestuurd op meer concurrentie. Welke ruimte hebben de lidstaten voor marktordening op het spoor? Aan de hand van ervaringen in het buitenland wordt er geschetst welke keuzes en uitdagingen na 2025 voor Nederland verstandig zijn.<br/>IN HET KORT<br/>● Europees spoorbeleid heeft...journal article 2019
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Hermans, M.H. (author), Veldhuis, J.H. (author), Huizing, D.S. (author), Rots, S.J. (author)Municipalities account for a considerable share in the total production of construction work in the Netherlands. Through their commissioning role, public entities can act as a ‘launching customer’ for innovation. New procurement schemes have been and are being installed to improve quality and productivity, reduce risks and enhance sustainability...conference paper 2019
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Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Klievink, A.J. (author), Doorn, N. (author)The crowd increasingly plays a key role in facilitating innovations in a variety of sectors, spurred on by IT-developments and the concomitant increase in connectivity. Initiatives in this direction, captured under the umbrella-term ‘crowd-based innovations’ (CBI), offer novel opportunities in all domains of society by increasing the access,...journal article 2019
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Joss, Simon (author), Sengers, Frans (author), Schraven, D.F.J. (author), Caprotti, Federico (author), Dayot, Youri (author)Despite its growing ubiquitous presence, the smart city continues to struggle for definitional clarity and practical import. In response, this study interrogates the smart city as global discourse network by examining a collection of key texts associated with cities worldwide. Using a list of 5,553 cities, a systematic webometric exercise was...journal article 2019
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Obersteg, Andreas (author), Arlati, Alessandro (author), Acke, Arianne (author), Berruti, Gilda (author), Czapiewski, Konrad (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author), Mezei, Cecília (author), Palestino, Maria Federica (author), Varju, Viktor (author), Wójcik, Marcin (author), Knieling, Jörg (author)Urban areas account for around 50% of global solid waste generation. In the last decade, the European Union has supported numerous initiatives aiming at reducing waste generation by promoting shifts towards Circular Economy (CE) approaches. Governing this process has become imperative. This article focuses on the results of a governance analysis...journal article 2019
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Spruit, S. (author), de Bruijne, M.L.C. (author), Pieters, W. (author)Individuals are regularly made responsible for risks they wish to take: one can consent to processing of personal data, and decide what to buy based on risk information on product labels. However, both large-scale processing of personal data and aggregated product choices may carry collective risks for society. In such situations, governance...journal article 2020
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De Martino, P. (author)Historical paths matter in port-city regions. Here, spatial patterns and governance arrangements are path dependent to the point that once certain paths have been established, these become hard to change. This defines a condition of institutional inertia that plays a significant role in preventing any form of spatial change. Naples is an...journal article 2020
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Yan, J. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)In recent decades, government intervention in welfare states has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from hierarchical government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors. Such terminology has also entered Chinese policy language on public rental housing (PRH) provision. To...journal article 2020
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Veeneman, Wijnand (author), van Kuijk, J.I. (author), Hiemstra-van Mastrigt, S. (author)The boundaries between collective and individual transport are fading. Current solutions for payment and planning of trips are suboptimal for journeys that span across individual, collective and shared transport modalities. The discussion around these innovations often tends towards public authorities needing to strengthen their integrating role...book chapter 2020
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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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Rukanova, B.D. (author), Tan, Y. (author), Hamerlinck, Robin (author), Heijmann, Frank (author), Ubacht, J. (author)Circular economy and sustainability are high on the political agendas of governments. Governments, but also other actors like banks, insurance companies, and auditing firms play a key role in setting (regulatory) requirements, instruments and incentives, as well as monitoring mechanisms to stimulate and monitor CE activities. Governance of CE...conference paper 2021
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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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Purkarthofer, E. (author), Humer, Alois (author), Mäntysalo, Raine (author)This special issue approaches regional planning as a contested arena of strategic planning. With this view, we transcend the idea that regional planning is purely a matter of scale and approach the complexity of regional planning from three perspectives: interests, institutions and relations. The perspective of ‘interests’ reveals the various...contribution to periodical 2021
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Ikiz Kaya, Deniz (author), Lu, Lu (author), Pintossi, Nadia (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author)Adaptive reuse of historic buildings plays a significant role in the transition towards circular economy. The existing literature still regards heritage conservation, urban management, circular economy and sustainable development as different spheres of knowledge. The Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) provides a holistic...conference paper 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