Place Branding in Megacity Regions in China: coping with ambiguous national environmental policies

In the past four decades, China has experienced unprecedented rates of urban growth. This remarkable urbanization has also created challenges for China’s environment. To protect the environment, the Chinese national government has issued several policies while still maintaining high economic growth, such as Scientific Approach to Development in...

Multidisciplinary emergency management: A comparative study of coordination and performance of on-scene command teams in virtual reality exercises

Effective strategy making, co-designing as a tool for effective strategic planning

The study explores the factors for success of long-term spatial development policies. The theoretic frame assumed that co-ownership of the content of a development policy is not enough for sustained support. Co-creation of a development vision with all relevant parties in a region or city would entail co-authorship, which enhances the chances...

Transit-Oriented Development in China: How can it be planned in complex urban systems?

In recent years most of the Chinese cities have shown a rapid decline in modal split of public transport as a consequence of rapid urbanization and motorization in the “socialist market economy”. It has been witnessed that cars flood into streets; road congestion, air pollution and traffic safety have become major problems in urban China. To...

Managing Deadlocks in the Netherlands aviation sector

Experiencing Complexity: A gaming approach for understanding infrastructure systems

Greening Governance: An Evolutionary Approach to Policy Making for a Sustainable Built Environment

After twenty years of sustainable building policies, the issue of environmental impact of buildings and urban environments remains. Policy makers still have difficulties addressing the ambiguous, contested and dynamic goals encapsulated in the term ‘sustainable development’. How to decide between using zinc or PVC gutters, when knowledge and...

Competing Public Values: Coping strategies in heavily regulated utility industries

Networked reliability: Institutional fragmentation and the reliability of service provision in critical infrastructures

Critical Infrastructures are the arteries and veins of Western, urbanized societies. The services and products provided by these large-scale, complex systems are considered essential. However, in recent years, more and more new problems seem to crop op after these infrastructures were opened up to market forces. What has happened in these...

Strategic Behavior and Regulatory Styles in the Netherlands Energy Industry

Ambiguïteit in het spel: De casus PolyVinylChloride

Proces in vorm: Procesbegeleiding van interactieve beleidsvorming over lokale ruimtelijke projecten

Milieutechnologie in het midden- en kleinbedrijf. Een handleiding voor professionals.

Institutional Transplantation - How to adopt good transport infrastructure decision-making ideas from other countries?

Dialogues of the Deaf: Defining New Agendas for Environmental Deadlocks