The Dynamics of Urban Ecosystem Governance in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Dynamics of Urban Ecosystem Governance in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Frantzeskaki, N.
Tillie, N.M.J.D.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

2014-04-17

We explore whether Rotterdam city has the governance capacity in terms of processes at place, and the attention in terms of vision and strategy to take up an integrated approach toward urban resilience. We adopt an interpretative policy analysis approach to assess the dynamics of urban ecosystem governance considering interviews, gray literature, and facilitated dialogues with policy practitioners. We show the inner workings of local government across strategic, operational, tactical, and reflective governance processes about the way urban ecosystems are regulated. Despite the existing capacity to steer such processes, a number of underlying challenges exist: need for coordination between planning departments; need to ease the integration of new policy objectives into established adaptive policy cycles; and need to assess the lessons learnt from pilots and emerging green initiatives. Regulating and provisioning ecosystem services receive heightened policy attention. Focus on regulating services is maintained by a policy renewal cycle that limits and delays consideration of other ecosystem services in policy and planning.

urban delta
governance
urban ecosystems
ecosystem services
densification

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:285fa8e3-6093-4b8c-b0e7-90b71407c4ae

Springer

0044-7447

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0512-0

Ambio, 43 (4), 2014

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