Towards Socially Sustainable Citizen Participation: Exploring the potential of private-led citizen participation processes to contribute to neighbourhood social sustainability

Citizen participation is a practice in the built environment practised frequently in construction projects to voice the opinions of residents. However, the participation process is not a standard practice in the industry yet. With the new Environmental and Planning Act of 2024, participation will be the responsibility of the private sector...

Development of a generic assessment framework to evaluate decentralized water-energy nexus systems in neighborhoods: Case study City Nieuwegein

The pressure on water and energy resources, along with the transition towards new infrastructure, requires an integrated approach to achieve future-proof concepts. A nexus approach can contribute to this by including the interaction between water and energy. This is also known as a water-energy nexus (WEN). Furthermore, when considering...

Stakeholder perspective on the context of use and application of a new diagnostic device for the diagnosis of schistosomiasis haematobium in Ibadan- Nigeria: Q-Methodoogy

Schistosomiasis is a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) that is caused by water-base parasite, putting more than 800 million people at risk. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for approximately 93% of the world’s schistosomiasis cases with the highest prevalence is found in countries like Nigeria. Current diagnostic devices for schistosomiasis...

Fighting Child Sexual Abuse Material better together: A stakeholder central review of the government policies

This study aims to make recommendations about how the Internet can be more thoroughly cleaned of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), focusing on the Dutch government policies. In the past years, several organizations, including the European Commission, called out the Netherlands for the role Dutch companies have in the hosting of CSAM. According...

Key stakeholders’ perspectives on the ideal partnering culture in construction projects

This paper examines the current state of project cultures in the German turnkey construction industry and the ideal project cultures in terms of partnering from the perspective of various key stakeholders (i.e., Investors, General Contractors, (Sub-)Contractors and Designers). To investigate the current and ideal cultures, data were gathered...

Incorporating stakeholder perspectives into model-based scenarios: Exploring the futures of the Dutch gas sector

Several model-based, analytical approaches have been developed recently to deal with the deep uncertainty present in situations for which futures studies are conducted. These approaches focus on covering a wide variety of scenarios and searching for robust strategies. However, they generally do not take the multiplicity of stakeholder...

Towards an analytical model for collaboration to secure cyber space

In recent years, information technology (IT) has grown from an enabling technology to an important technology we depend on in our everyday lives. For example, IT is required for the proper functioning of personal devices that store our personal information, but is also present in the on-board computers in pacemakers and systems controlling...

Towards a Metropolitan Governance in the Schiphol Airport Region? The issues and opportunities from a stakeholder perspective

Stakeholders' Perspectives on Sustainability in Project Management: Case studies of 4 different projects in the Netherlands

The link between project management and sustainability is relatively new. More projects today are driven by sustainability goals than ever before. The need for sustainability as a critical factor for project success is clear. However, the question is what the stakeholders involved in the project think of it. The main objective of this research...