Catalyzing ambition of Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change: a qualitative comparative study of 32 countries and the European Union

On December 12, 2015, at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties, 195 countries adopted the Paris Agreement (PA) to address climate change and its negative impacts, with the goal of limiting human-caused climate change to slightly less than 2°C, preferably 1.5°C, from pre-industrial levels (United Nations, 2015). From that point on,...

Studying participant decision-making processes in Participatory Value Evaluation: By application to a case study of Delft public infrastructure projects

Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is an innovative methodology that supports public policy-making by estimating the societal value of public policies or projects through citizen participation. This thesis studies the decision-making processes applied by participants using a case study of infrastructure projects within the municipality of...