Legislating sustainability? Yes, if… An institutional analysis on what instruments can be used and how these instruments can be used to legislate a sustainability vision for an area development in the light of the Environmental planning Act.
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2019-10-04
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en
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With signing the Paris Agreement in 2016, the Netherlands agreed to achieve the global goal
to keep the global temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius to reduce the risks and effects of
climate change. To achieve this goal, a decrease of the emission of carbon dioxide by at least
80 percent in comparison to 1990 is necessary. To accomplish this, the Netherlands has to
take action. An important link to this sustainable transition is the new Environmental planning
Act that will be implemented in 2021 in the Netherlands. This is a huge reformation of the
spatial planning legislation in which all 26 current Acts and many regulations will be merged
into one new Act. As a result many municipalities created an additional sustaintability vision to
a structural vision for an area development or for their whole municipality about their goals on
sustainability. Legislation of sustainable measures is an important aspect to achieve these
goals. However, legislating a sustainability measures is something new and therefore there is
no jurisprudence on this subject. With this master’s thesis, research is done on which new and
existing instruments can be used to legislate a sustainability vision for a specific area
development in the light of the Environmental planning Act.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen