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Item Adaptation Governance in smaller municipalities. Analysing the adaptation governance arrangement in eight Dutch municiplaties(2020-03-12) Sittert van, TomThe scientific and political debate on climate change is increasingly focussing on climate adaptation. Adaptation-strategies and -actions have not been implemented that often yet because of different barriers and a lack of proper adaptation governance. Current literature offers a lot of suggestions on the design of seven elements of adaptation governance: framing, timing of policies, the level at which the act, alignment, a science-policy interface, leadership and policy-instruments. These elements should be helpful to overcome the barriers and are thus beneficial for proper adaptation governance. However, the practical application of adaptation governance has not been studied in practice very often yer. Moreover, the available information is predominantly based on large-scale perspectives. This research therefore analysed adaptation governance in eight smaller municipalities in the Netherlands whom are collaboratively working on climate adaptation. It shows that there are general differences between the suggested approach and the practical situation. The research concludes that smaller municipalities were more oriented on the short-term, had an unprepared organisation, and lacked awareness and momentum in general at that time. The research offers recommendations directed at the municipalities and regional organisations on how to deal with those differences.Item Conflict in modern day planning. Investigating the approach to conflict in nomocratic planning processes in the Netherlands(2018-07-05) Sittert van, TomDuring the past decade, the Dutch planning system had a significant transformation. The comprehensive integrated approach got replaced by a more open and bottom-up approach, facilitated by new policies and strengthened by the economic crisis. A lot is known about this new, nomocratic approach, but even though it is immanent to planning (Ploeger, 2004), conflict has not been reflected upon yet. Moreover, the different approaches used to deal with conflict, agonism and antagonism (Mouffe, 2000), have not been investigated yet. Therefore, this research bridges that gap between the theories about conflict and the approach to conflict in practice. To do this, three different cases of nomocratic planning processes in the Netherlands have been analysed: the Honigcomplex in Nijmegen, the Ebbingekwartier in Groningen and the Schieblock in Groningen. By analysing these cases, insight is created in their conflicts and the approach to it, to develop better understanding of the way in which the theories about conflict are integrated in nomocratic planning processes.