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Energy justice and controversies
Formal and informal assessment in energy projects
In this paper we develop a framework for understanding how justice-related claims play a role in the dynamics of controversy in energy projects. We do so by distinguishing two interacting trajectories of assessment: a formal trajectory that is embedded in the legal system and an
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Participatory multi-modelling as the creation of a boundary object ecology
The case of future energy infrastructures in the Rotterdam Port Industrial Cluster
Finding leverage points for sustainability transformation of industrial and infrastructure systems is challenging, given that transformation is emergent from the complex interactions among socio-technical system elements over time within a specific social, technical and geographi
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Governing crowd-based innovations
An interdisciplinary research agenda
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 op
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Transition Initiatives as Light Intentional Communities
Uncovering Liminality and Friction
The Transition Network is a global grassroots network that supports community-led resilience in the face of global change. This paper reports on an ethnographic study of one of its longest-running projects, Transition Town Lewes (TTL) in the United Kingdom. The aim of the study i
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Science communication and Responsible Research and Innovation
How can they complement each other?
In today's society a variety of challenges need attention because they are considered to affect our well-being. Many of these challenges can be addressed with new innovations, yet they may also introduce new challenges. Communication of these new innovations is vital. This import
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Exploring incumbents’ agency
Institutional work by grid operators in decentralized energy innovations
The agency of incumbents has gained increasing attention in the study of transitions. Recent studies show that besides being inert and resistant to change, incumbents can also support transitions. We focus on the agency of a particular type of incumbent, grid operators. In severa
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Industrial Symbiosis
Towards a design process for eco-industrial clusters by integrating Circular Economy and Industrial Ecology perspectives
Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a collective approach to competitive advantage in which separate industries create a cooperative network to exchange materials, energy, water and/or by-products. By addressing issues related to resource depletion, waste management and pollution, IS pl
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De toekomst van het stedelijk watersysteem
Opereren in een stad vol transities
Gedreven door ontwikkelingen zoals klimaatverandering, verstedelijking en digitalisering zien we in het stedelijk watersysteem steeds vaker oplossingen ‘buiten de buis’. Oplossingen zoals publieke pleinen met een waterbergende functie, polderdaken met een dynamische waterberging,
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Eindrapportage Project Windmaster
De weg naar een adaptief investeringsbeleid
Nederland is op weg naar een CO2-neutrale samenleving in 2050. Zo ook het haven industrieel cluster van Rotterdam (HIC). Om dat te bereiken zal de energievoorziening de komende jaren moeten veranderen. Deze verandering heeft een grote impact op de energieinfrastructuur. In het Wi
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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’, offer novel opportun
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Peer-to-Peer Parcel Delivery
Exploring governance arrangements to protect sustainability as a public value
This research answers the question “What kind of governance arrangements can be used to safeguard sustainability when dealing with peer-to-peer parcel delivery?” by looking at the actors that are currently active in the field, how these initiatives incorporate sustainability, wha
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Institutional dimension of flood risk
Understanding institutional complexity in Flood Risk Management for the case of St Maarten
As extreme weather events increase both in frequency and magnitude (IPCC, 2012, 2014), and considering that over 60% of the world population lives in coastal areas (UNEP, 2016) flood risk is increasing. Hereby, the need to address Flood Risk Management (FRM) becomes evident. Espe
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Designing a Just Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading System
An exploration of actions to be performed by the Municipality of Rotterdam to approach a just peer-to-peer energy trading system for the community of Bospolder-Tussendijken
The rapid development of renewable technologies has opened the opportunity for households to produce their own energy, and to either self-consume or sell it. In the Netherlands, it is projected that not less than 7 GW of solar PV capacity will be installed in 2020. Therefore, the
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Imagination as a driving force for inter-organizational innovation
The development of a research framework
With the help of a qualitative case study and existing literature from scientific fields like social sciences, psychology, policy studies, and innovation studies a research framework was compiled for studying imagination as a driving force for innovation fueled by its social cont
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Design for Values in Smart Electricity Grid Components
An explorative analysis into stakeholder interpretations of the values at stake within The Netherlands
Long before the existence of today’s computer, information and communication technologies, the design of current energy grids has been set. Nowadays, ‘conventional’ energy grids – including electricity, gas and thermal grids – are being transformed into smart grids, which consist
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Towards Decentralised Energy Systems
An Analysis of the Distribution of Tasks to Safeguard Essential Energy Sector's Public Values
How the Environmental Impact Assessment and the Public Debate interact
An Event Sequence Analysis on Offshore Wind Farm Gemini
Reframing deadlocked airport policy discourse
New perspectives on sustainable aviation in the Netherlands
A practice theory approach for studying clothing consumption in the Netherlands consisting of a practice analysis, and two case studies of alternative forms of practice. Aim of the research was to assess the potential of these alternative forms of practice to change the organizat
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