Re-creation and participation : A research towards participation issues of recreatieschap Voorne-PuttenRozenburg in the area of Brielse Meer

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2012-09
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In the Netherlands for already several years a transition is going in the division of responsibility between the government, the market and citizens. Nowadays this movement is speeding up because of the financial crisis. Lack of financial resources forces governments to give more room to initiatives from the private sector. For recreational areas in the Netherlands, this new hands-off mentality of the government led to problems. Less state money is available for development and maintenance of the areas. An area which has to deal with decay because of these issues is Brielse Meer. No money is available for improvements in the area and solutions are expected to be found in enhanced participation with entrepreneurs and citizens. The problem is however that the recreatieschap of Brielse Meer does not know what possibilities there are for participation and how to support this. Further decrease of possibilities for recreation might lead to negative health consequences, degradation of natural landscapes and economic losses in the leisure industry in the area. Finding a solution for Brielse Meer is therefore necessary. Because the issue is quite new for the recreational sector, in literature not many has been written with respect to participation in the recreational sector in the Netherlands. This research offers a small contribution to the scientific debate about participation (in recreational areas) and may encourage others scientists to further study this phenomenon. In the end, the main goal of this research is to contribute to knowledge about participation in a concrete context to assist recreatieschap Voorne-Putten-Rozenburg in their strategy to enhance participation in Brielse Meer by examining what citizens and entrepreneurs would like to- or can dowith respect to public participation.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen