Living labs in land and water management
Learning to innovate and innovating to learn
A. Bhatta (TU Delft - Technology, Policy and Management)
J.H. Slinger – Promotor (TU Delft - Technology, Policy and Management)
H.S.I. Vreugdenhil – Copromotor (TU Delft - Technology, Policy and Management)
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Abstract
Sustainable land and water management requires integrated strategies that combine technical, ecological, and socioeconomic dimensions, through cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration among diverse stakeholders, including farmers, ecologists, hydrologists, planners, policymakers, and business owners. Within this context, the dissertation explores the role of “living labs” as innovative, co-creative approaches, using the metaphor of plant cultivation. This research advances understanding of living labs by exploring their seeds in the past to their roots in learning, their harvest as learning outcomes, and their influence on the policy landscape through Dutch case studies, particularly in climate-adaptive land and water management.