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Strategies for Transforming Coastal Governance: Addressing Interdependent Dimen...
Nijamdeen, Mafaziya; Löhr, Ansje; Van Assche, Kristof; Beunen, RaoulCoastal areas are places where land and sea meet. These places offer many socio‐economic opportunities but also face profound social and environmental challenges that are often exacerbated by limitations in current governance systems. These limitations include a lack of coordination, unclear mandates and roles, fragmented knowledge, power dynamics, and insufficient stakeholder involvement. Transforming coastal ...
Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and ...
Van Assche, Kristof; Duineveld, Martijn; Gruezmacher, Monica; Beunen, RaoulWe develop a perspective on steering in governance which understands steering as intended path creation. Inspired by evolutionary governance theory, critical management studies and social systems theory, we argue that steering is shaped and limited by co-evolutions, disallowing for any formulaic approach. In order to illuminate the space for steering in governance, we analyze the interplay between different dep...
Strategy and Steering in Governance: The Changing Fates of the Argentine Planni...
Alves Rolo, Rodrigo; Van Assche, Kristof; Duineveld, MartijnBased on a detailed study of the return of national-level planning in Argentina as embodied by COFEPLAN, the national planning council, we develop a conceptual framework to analyse the possibilities and limits of steering in governance. We lean on the theoretical apparatus of evolutionary governance theory and use the concepts of goal dependency, interdependency, path dependency and material dependency (effects...
Steering in Governance: Evolutionary Perspectives
Beunen, Raoul; Van Assche, KristofSteering has negative connotations nowadays in many discussions on governance, policy, politics and planning. The associations with the modernist state project linger on. At the same time, a rethinking of what is possible by means of policy and planning, what is possible through governance, which forms of change and which pursuits of common goods still make sense, in an era of cynicism about steering yet also h...
Learning from Other Places and Their Plans: Comparative Learning in and for Pla...
Van Assche, Kristof; Beunen, Raoul; Verweij, StefanIn this thematic issue we pursue the idea that comparative studies of planning systems are utterly useful for gaining a deeper understanding of learning processes and learning capacity in spatial planning systems. In contemporary planning systems the pressures towards learning and continuous self-transformation are high. On the one hand more and more planning is needed in terms of integration of expertise, poli...