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Meijer, H.M. (author)
Infrastructures, generally designed to have a long service life, are particularly vulnerable to long term changes that can influence their functioning. Therefore it is important that uncertainties are taken into account as much as possible from the beginning of the planning process of infrastructures. This thesis focuses on drinking water...
doctoral thesis 2007
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Frantzeskaki, N. (author)
doctoral thesis 2011
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Monnikhof, R.A.H. (author)
The thesis develops a set of guidelines for improving policy analysis supporting policy making on spatial issues. For this first the main problems in the field of policy processes on spatial issues and the way analysis contributed to them or helped alleviate them were analysed. Analytical practice is shown to be generally related to these...
doctoral thesis 2006
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Vreugdenhil, H.S.I. (author)
Pilot projects are widely applied in water management. They can be used to test risky innovations at confined scale, but can also be used to delay policy decisions or to advocate a particular innovation. In this book the phenomenon ‘pilot project’ is explored both theoretically and empirically. A framework to analyse pilot projects is developed...
doctoral thesis 2010
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Agusdinata, B. (author)
Faced with policy problems with high stakes, decisionmakers have increasingly recognized the importance of appropriately handling uncertainties. The nature of policy problems, however, is changing. Of particular concern are policy problems involving deep uncertainty when analysts do not know or the parties to a decision cannot agree upon (1) the...
doctoral thesis 2008
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Van de Riet, O.A.W.T. (author)
doctoral thesis 2003
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Carton, L.J. (author)
In this thesis, the practice of map-making and map use is studied among actors involved in spatial planning and water management. The socio-technical mechanisms between knowlegde production and policymaking in Dutch regional planning make up the central object of study, with map images as observable artefacts. In many instances, maps seem to be...
doctoral thesis 2007
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Twaalfhoven, P.G.J. (author)
doctoral thesis 1999
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Grünfeld, H. (author)
doctoral thesis 1999
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Tijink, D. (author)
doctoral thesis 1999
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Quist, J.N. (author)
"Backcasting for a sustainable future: the impact after 10 years" is the first book that systematically investigates the follow-up and spin-off of various participatory backcasting experiments seven to ten years after completion. Backcasting literally means looking back from a desirable future that is constructed first. Since the 1990s...
doctoral thesis 2007
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Oruç, S. (author)
The electricity infrastructure, like many other networked infrastructures, is an indispensable and integral part of developed economies. The economic growth, quality of life and general well-being of modern societies all depend on the smooth, reliable and efficient operation of electricity system. On the other hand, adverse strategic behavior by...
doctoral thesis 2014
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Hoekstra, A.IJ. (author)
doctoral thesis 1998
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Hermans, L.M. (author)
Water related problems such as floods, droughts, declining groundwater tables or polluted rivers have a major impact on numerous societies throughout the world. Despite these serious problems, policy makers seem to make scant use of the knowledge that is available with water experts. Conversely, water experts face the task of finding out how...
doctoral thesis 2005
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Oomens, A.J. (author)
doctoral thesis 1992
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Karstens, S.A.M. (author)
This thesis synthesizes different perspectives on scale choices (spatial boundary setting, temporal boundary setting and the selection of the level of aggregation) in policy analysis. Scale choices influence the content of a study: the problems on the agenda, the options found and the impacts addressed. This also affects the process, because...
doctoral thesis 2009
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Yücel, G. (author)
Transition can be characterized as long-term structural changes in the societal systems, through which the way these systems function change significantly. Both the scope and extent of change, and the nature of the societal systems make transition processes a complex dynamic phenomena to understand. This study explores both methodological and...
doctoral thesis 2010
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Marchand, M. (author)
This resarch thesis focuses on vulnerability of societies in low lying coastal and deltaic environments to tropical cyclonic storms and floods. Models that explore vulnerability under various planned and unplanned conditions hardly exist. Within the Andhra Pradesh Cyclone Hazard Mitigation Project an Expert Decision Support System was designed...
doctoral thesis 2009
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Bras-Klapwijk, R.M. (author)
doctoral thesis 1999
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Timmermans, J.S. (author)
Purposive Interaction in Multi-Actor Decision Making; Operationalizing Coleman's Linear System of Action for Policy Decision Support, started out with a ball and a web, a policy domain moved by a network of actors. How can the ball maintain its pace? Who are the actors that make the difference? How can policy annalists support them in moving the...
doctoral thesis 2004
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