Udo Pesch
Biographic Data
| ID | 200434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Udo Pesch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Udo |
| FAMILY NAME | Pesch |
| SIGNATURE | PESCH U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8980-5205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Normative Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Research
Interdisciplinary collaboration is often seen as the approach to deal with wicked problems, which are problems that involve both scientific uncertainties and normative uncertainties, meaning that there is no consensus on the problem definition and the best course of action. One of the reasons for the difficulty in establishing effective interdisciplinary collaboration is that the normative assumptions of academic disciplines are usually left unar…
Institutions for Autonomy: Facilitating Moral Selfhood by Design
Modern institutions can be seen as ‘regimes of autonomy’, social contexts in which different criteria for autonomy are maintained. Some of these institutions provide individuals the opportunity to nurture their moral selfhood as they allow persons to learn the capacity for giving legitimate justifications for their decisions. Among these institutions are the court of law, the educational system, the public debate and the academic system. Contempo…
Solving the puzzle of justice: How to bridge the normative and descriptive logics in energy justice
In their uptake of the concept of energy justice, we observe a tension between social scientists on the one hand and ethicists and philosophers on the other hand. This tension seems to arise from the contrastive assumptions and expectations that are maintained within the disciplines of social science and philosophy. While philosophers often present theoretical constructions of non-empirical forms of justice that allow for systematic normative ref…
Shaping Shared Values: The Roles of Sociotechnical Agenda-setting in Technology Development
In dynamic sociotechnical contexts, values evolve over time and diverge across stakeholder groups, complicating the coordination of innovation processes through individual and collective commitments. This paper argues that sociotechnical agendas, which are structured sets of technology-related issues that shape attention and guide decision-making, can be a helpful framework for examining the interplay between personal and shared values. We demons…
Challenge accepted: Sub-national government authorities and the legitimacy of co-creative redevelopment projects in fossil-industrial regions
We investigate co-creative fossil asset redevelopment in and for transitions in fossil-industrial regions. • We identify six legitimacy challenges for sub-national governmental authorities in co-creative redevelopment. • We discuss the preconditions and caveats for fossil industrial pioneering in regional transitions. • We reflect on the role of socio-spatial imaginaries in legitimately claiming the right to a just transition. • We provide recomm…
A perspective on energy citizenship and transitions in Europe
The European Union (EU) is committed to achieving a just and inclusive energy transition. Positioning citizen participation is an integral practice of this goal. The expectation for increased citizen engagement in energy initiatives has been conceptualised as energy citizenship. However, despite publicly committing to encouraging active, bottom-up participation, top-down, state-led approaches to promoting energy citizenship have been criticised f…
A new carrier for old assumptions? Imagined publics and their justice implications for hydrogen development in the Netherlands
This paper presents an anticipatory approach to energy justice by focusing on nascent justice implications of imagined publics in transition visions. We test this approach in a case study, building on an interpretive qualitative content analysis of twenty-one vision documents followed by a select number of interviews on the hydrogen transition in the Netherlands. Combining theory and case insights, we develop the thesis that publics, in their var…
Public acceptance in direct potable water reuse: A call for incorporating responsible research and innovation
As global issues such as climate change and diminishing resources become increasingly pressing, water recycling has moved into the focus. However, the successful implementation of Direct Potable Water Reuse (DPR) projects hinges on securing public acceptance, which remains challenging. This paper aims to flesh out possible reasons for the lingering public rejection of DPR. We will do so by conducting a literature review on how public acceptance i…
Making sense of acceptance and acceptability: Mapping concept use in energy technologies research
With the increasing reliance on technological advancements, it becomes imperative to critically examine and evaluate their implications on society and the environment. The concepts of acceptance and acceptability have gained prominence among researchers shaping technology implementation strategies. However, the lack of precise definitions for these concepts leads to diverse interpretations, compromising their usefulness in technology development …
Adapting to changing values: A framework for responsible decision-making in smart city development
Smart cities are proposed as a solution for problems of urbanization. Technologies associated with smart cities involve the monitoring of human activities and resulting data streams. These technologies affect certain public values, which may be subject to change depending on their sociotechnical development. This paper presents a method that enables decision-makers to anticipate on this pattern of value change. This method uses two axes that allo…
Experts’ perspectives on the sustainability and risks of freely applicable MSWI bottom ash: A Q-methodology study in the Netherlands
Experts in the Netherlands have lately debated the novel policy idea to freely apply municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash (MSWIBA). In this paper, we map this ambivalent and unforeseeable, subjective, expert debate. This will help policymaking because more knowledge on subjective expert viewpoints and perceptions allows for clustering conflict and consent as well as gaps in common understanding in this complex debate. We applied Q-method…
Commoning practices’ for energy justice? Perspectives on the heat transition in the city of Amsterdam
Decarbonisation of the built environment is needed to abate the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. In the city of Amsterdam, multiple bottom-up initiatives have been initiated to reach these goals. In this paper, we explore how energy justice is reshaped by these initiatives on an urban scale. This is done by a case study on a platform that aims to connect, support and inform community energy initiatives. Based on ethnographic fiel…
Drawing the line: Opening up and closing down the siting of a high voltage transmission route in the Netherlands
This paper describes the decision-making process regarding the siting of a high voltage transmission line in the southern part of the Netherlands by TenneT, the Transmission System Operator responsible for the electricity infrastructure. TenneT started this siting process by deploying conventional decision-making procedures, which have the tendency centrally to pre-scope, and select the technical, spatial and societal characteristics of such proj…
People in PowerPoint Pixels: Competing justice claims and scalar politics in water development planning
Coastal megacities all over the world face challenges related to climate adaptation, ecosystem protection and inclusive development. In response, governments develop high-level and long-term climate adaptation plans to guide coastal development. In Metro Manila, a consortium of Dutch and Philippine consultants developed the Manila Bay Sustainable Development Master Plan (MBSDMP). The planning team stressed the importance of inclusive and particip…
Understanding Value Change in the Energy Transition: Exploring the Perspective of Original Institutional Economics
In this paper, we take inspiration from original institutional economics (OIE) as an approach to study value change within the highly complex assembly of sociotechnical transformations that make up the energy transition. OIE is examined here as a suitable perspective, as it combines Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy and a methodological interactionist perspective on value change, behavior and institutions, with technology figuring as a transformation…
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences
In 2018, the European Union laid the foundation for a large-scale energy transition: away from fossilbased energy and towards renewable, sustainable energy solutions. A transition of such a large scale comes with challenges. To cope with the ills that an energy transition brings the European Commission proposed the Just Transition Fund in 2021. It serves as a financial buffer and provides strategic support for the successful energy transition to …
Developing social life cycle assessment based on corporate social responsibility: A chemical process industry case regarding human rights
MSocial Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) uses a life cycle perspective to assess social impacts of products, and the S-LCA guidelines describe developing the system boundaries based on a factory-level perspective. However, such a perspective may exclude stakeholders with a negative social performance which are cooperating with a factory but are not directly involved with the product under study, and it can result in a step back on corporate social r…
Public agency and responsibility in energy governance: A Q study on diverse imagined publics in the Dutch heat transition
In Energy Social Science (ESS), the concept of imagined publics is used to describe how energy actors perceive societal groups around new energy technologies and projects. Findings indicate that imagined publics often build upon deficit assumptions; people are (unjustly) considered unknowledgeable, incapable, unwilling and irresponsible agents in governance. While insightful, deficit-based explanations insufficiently capture the broad diversity o…
Institutions of justice and intuitions of fairness: Contesting goods, rules and inequalities
This paper examines the intrinsic relation between institutions and social justice. Its starting point is that processes of institutionalization invoke societal groups to articulate justice demands which, in their turn, give rise to processes of institutional redesign. In liberal democracies, demands for justice are articulated as a pursuit for emancipation and empowerment of groups that feel excluded by dominant categorizations. The imminent pre…
Creating ‘Local Publics’: Responsibility and Involvement in Decision-Making on Technologies with Local Impacts
This paper makes a conceptual inquiry into the notion of ‘publics’, and forwards an understanding of this notion that allows more responsible forms of decision-making with regards to technologies that have localized impacts, such as wind parks, hydrogen stations or flood barriers. The outcome of this inquiry is that the acceptability of a decision is to be assessed by a plurality of ‘publics’, including that of a local community. The paper presen…
When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”
Energy controversies have been widely studied. Such studies are, however, generally based on either single case studies, providing rich and in-depth understanding of (local) dynamics of planning and implementation processes, or they focus on understanding responses to a specific technology (not bound to a location). Therefore these studies tend to overlook a key dynamic in controversy, namely that publics respond to projects by drawing on earlier…
A reply to ‘Green shame: The next moral revolution?’
The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas
Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicke…
Elusive publics in energy projects: The politics of localness and energy democracy
In order to have the assessment of the local impacts of energy projects, decision-makers need to separate a local public from the wider public. From the starting point that ‘publics’ are so-called imaginaries, this perspective paper argues that the operationalisation of publics tends to impose concerns, motivations and capacities upon the members of both publics, expecting local publics to consider specific concerns, while wider publics are expec…
Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies
New network technologies are framed as eliminating 'transaction costs', a notion first developed in economic theory that now drives the design of market systems. However, the actual promise of the elimination of transaction costs seems unfeasible, because of a cyclical pattern in which network technologies that make that promise create processes of institutionalization that create new forms transaction costs. Nonetheless, the promises legitimize …
The Publicness of Public Administration
Public administration theory has always struggled to find a clear-cut understanding of the publicness of public administration. There are at least five different approaches to distinguish public from private organizations. A closer examination shows that these five approaches are based on two conceptual versions of the publicness of public administration. The first conceptual version derives its understanding of publicness from “public goods,” wh…
New future perspectives through constructive conflict: Exploring the future of gas in the Netherlands
Public agency and responsibility in energy governance: A Q study on diverse imagined publics in the Dutch heat transition
In Energy Social Science (ESS), the concept of imagined publics is used to describe how energy actors perceive societal groups around new energy technologies and projects. Findings indicate that imagined publics often build upon deficit assumptions; people are (unjustly) considered unknowledgeable, incapable, unwilling and irresponsible agents in governance. While insightful, deficit-based explanations insufficiently capture the broad diversity o…
When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”
Energy controversies have been widely studied. Such studies are, however, generally based on either single case studies, providing rich and in-depth understanding of (local) dynamics of planning and implementation processes, or they focus on understanding responses to a specific technology (not bound to a location). Therefore these studies tend to overlook a key dynamic in controversy, namely that publics respond to projects by drawing on earlier…
The production and use of knowledge in regulatory impact assessment – An empirical analysis
The nature of the beast: Are citizens’ juries deliberative or pluralist
The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas
Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicke…
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences
In 2018, the European Union laid the foundation for a large-scale energy transition: away from fossilbased energy and towards renewable, sustainable energy solutions. A transition of such a large scale comes with challenges. To cope with the ills that an energy transition brings the European Commission proposed the Just Transition Fund in 2021. It serves as a financial buffer and provides strategic support for the successful energy transition to …
Niche entrepreneurs in urban systems integration: On the role of individuals in niche formation
In many sustainable urban innovation projects, the efforts, endurance and enthusiasm of individuals at key positions are considered a crucial factor for success. This article studies the role of individual agency in sociotechnical niches by using Kingdon's agenda-setting model. Although strategic niche management is commonly used to study processes of urban innovation, the process of niche formation and the role of individual agency has been unde…
Administrators and Accountability: The Plurality of Value Systems in the Public Domain
Procedural arrangements that safeguard accountable conduct of civil servants generally assume a univocal set of moral values. Yet public administration is characterized by a plurality of sets of values. The problems of the "many hands" and the "dirty-hands" make clear that activities of officials involve contrasting moral values. The absence of moral consistency is attributed to the fact that officials have to pursue the public interest, an intri…
Making sense of acceptance and acceptability: Mapping concept use in energy technologies research
With the increasing reliance on technological advancements, it becomes imperative to critically examine and evaluate their implications on society and the environment. The concepts of acceptance and acceptability have gained prominence among researchers shaping technology implementation strategies. However, the lack of precise definitions for these concepts leads to diverse interpretations, compromising their usefulness in technology development …
Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies
New network technologies are framed as eliminating 'transaction costs', a notion first developed in economic theory that now drives the design of market systems. However, the actual promise of the elimination of transaction costs seems unfeasible, because of a cyclical pattern in which network technologies that make that promise create processes of institutionalization that create new forms transaction costs. Nonetheless, the promises legitimize …
Making sense of the self: An integrative framework for moral agency
The self is conceptualized in a multitude of ways in different scholarly fields; at the same time moral agency appears to presuppose a unitary conception of the self. This paper explores this tension by introducing ‘moral senses’ which inform the normative evaluations of a person. The moral senses are featured as innate dispositions, but they inevitably recruit discursive categorizations in order to function. These senses forward both an ‘individ…
An Emotional Deliberation Approach to Risk
Emotions are often met with suspicion in political debates about risky technologies, because they are seen as contrary to rational decision making. However, recent emotion research rejects such a dichotomous view of reason and emotion, by seeing emotions as an important source of moral insight. Moral emotions such as compassion and feelings of responsibility and justice can play an important role in judging ethical aspects of technological risks,…
How stakeholder interactions can reduce space for moral considerations in decision making: A contested CCS project in the Netherlands
We analyse the dynamics of a decision-making process on a contested carbon capture and storage project in The Netherlands by investigating the interactions between the involved stakeholders and how these reinforced, or were shaped by, a meta-frame. Our analysis suggests that from the start of the project, the interactions between stakeholders were shaped by, and reinforced, a goal-rational meta-frame. This frame, and the respective interactions, …
Commoning practices’ for energy justice? Perspectives on the heat transition in the city of Amsterdam
Decarbonisation of the built environment is needed to abate the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. In the city of Amsterdam, multiple bottom-up initiatives have been initiated to reach these goals. In this paper, we explore how energy justice is reshaped by these initiatives on an urban scale. This is done by a case study on a platform that aims to connect, support and inform community energy initiatives. Based on ethnographic fiel…
Elusive publics in energy projects: The politics of localness and energy democracy
In order to have the assessment of the local impacts of energy projects, decision-makers need to separate a local public from the wider public. From the starting point that ‘publics’ are so-called imaginaries, this perspective paper argues that the operationalisation of publics tends to impose concerns, motivations and capacities upon the members of both publics, expecting local publics to consider specific concerns, while wider publics are expec…
A perspective on energy citizenship and transitions in Europe
The European Union (EU) is committed to achieving a just and inclusive energy transition. Positioning citizen participation is an integral practice of this goal. The expectation for increased citizen engagement in energy initiatives has been conceptualised as energy citizenship. However, despite publicly committing to encouraging active, bottom-up participation, top-down, state-led approaches to promoting energy citizenship have been criticised f…
People in PowerPoint Pixels: Competing justice claims and scalar politics in water development planning
Coastal megacities all over the world face challenges related to climate adaptation, ecosystem protection and inclusive development. In response, governments develop high-level and long-term climate adaptation plans to guide coastal development. In Metro Manila, a consortium of Dutch and Philippine consultants developed the Manila Bay Sustainable Development Master Plan (MBSDMP). The planning team stressed the importance of inclusive and particip…
Institutions of justice and intuitions of fairness: Contesting goods, rules and inequalities
This paper examines the intrinsic relation between institutions and social justice. Its starting point is that processes of institutionalization invoke societal groups to articulate justice demands which, in their turn, give rise to processes of institutional redesign. In liberal democracies, demands for justice are articulated as a pursuit for emancipation and empowerment of groups that feel excluded by dominant categorizations. The imminent pre…
Paradigms and paradoxes: The futures of growth and degrowth
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce three storylines that address the relation between economic growth, technical innovation and environmental impact. The paper assesses if and how these storylines as guiding visions increase our range of future orientations. Design/methodology/approach The paper first explains its general outline and then explores different strands of literature to arrive at its analytical conclusions. Findings Pur…
The nature of the beast: Are citizens’ juries deliberative or pluralist
The Publicness of Public Administration
Public administration theory has always struggled to find a clear-cut understanding of the publicness of public administration. There are at least five different approaches to distinguish public from private organizations. A closer examination shows that these five approaches are based on two conceptual versions of the publicness of public administration. The first conceptual version derives its understanding of publicness from “public goods,” wh…
Administrators and Accountability: The Plurality of Value Systems in the Public Domain
Procedural arrangements that safeguard accountable conduct of civil servants generally assume a univocal set of moral values. Yet public administration is characterized by a plurality of sets of values. The problems of the "many hands" and the "dirty-hands" make clear that activities of officials involve contrasting moral values. The absence of moral consistency is attributed to the fact that officials have to pursue the public interest, an intri…
The production and use of knowledge in regulatory impact assessment – An empirical analysis
Responsible innovation as an endorsement of public values: The need for interdisciplinary research
This article has a theoretical and a practical objective. The theoretical objective is to conceptualize responsible innovation as the adequate and timely inclusion of public values relevant to technological development. Technological innovations always occur in a specific institutional context, closely connected to stakeholder dynamics. Hence, an ideal approach to responsible innovation requires interdisciplinary research that incorporates: (i) t…
Tracing discursive space: Agency and change in sustainability transitions
How stakeholder interactions can reduce space for moral considerations in decision making: A contested CCS project in the Netherlands
We analyse the dynamics of a decision-making process on a contested carbon capture and storage project in The Netherlands by investigating the interactions between the involved stakeholders and how these reinforced, or were shaped by, a meta-frame. Our analysis suggests that from the start of the project, the interactions between stakeholders were shaped by, and reinforced, a goal-rational meta-frame. This frame, and the respective interactions, …
New future perspectives through constructive conflict: Exploring the future of gas in the Netherlands
An Emotional Deliberation Approach to Risk
Emotions are often met with suspicion in political debates about risky technologies, because they are seen as contrary to rational decision making. However, recent emotion research rejects such a dichotomous view of reason and emotion, by seeing emotions as an important source of moral insight. Moral emotions such as compassion and feelings of responsibility and justice can play an important role in judging ethical aspects of technological risks,…
Niche entrepreneurs in urban systems integration: On the role of individuals in niche formation
In many sustainable urban innovation projects, the efforts, endurance and enthusiasm of individuals at key positions are considered a crucial factor for success. This article studies the role of individual agency in sociotechnical niches by using Kingdon's agenda-setting model. Although strategic niche management is commonly used to study processes of urban innovation, the process of niche formation and the role of individual agency has been unde…
Paradigms and paradoxes: The futures of growth and degrowth
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce three storylines that address the relation between economic growth, technical innovation and environmental impact. The paper assesses if and how these storylines as guiding visions increase our range of future orientations. Design/methodology/approach The paper first explains its general outline and then explores different strands of literature to arrive at its analytical conclusions. Findings Pur…
Elusive publics in energy projects: The politics of localness and energy democracy
In order to have the assessment of the local impacts of energy projects, decision-makers need to separate a local public from the wider public. From the starting point that ‘publics’ are so-called imaginaries, this perspective paper argues that the operationalisation of publics tends to impose concerns, motivations and capacities upon the members of both publics, expecting local publics to consider specific concerns, while wider publics are expec…
Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies
New network technologies are framed as eliminating 'transaction costs', a notion first developed in economic theory that now drives the design of market systems. However, the actual promise of the elimination of transaction costs seems unfeasible, because of a cyclical pattern in which network technologies that make that promise create processes of institutionalization that create new forms transaction costs. Nonetheless, the promises legitimize …
Making sense of the self: An integrative framework for moral agency
The self is conceptualized in a multitude of ways in different scholarly fields; at the same time moral agency appears to presuppose a unitary conception of the self. This paper explores this tension by introducing ‘moral senses’ which inform the normative evaluations of a person. The moral senses are featured as innate dispositions, but they inevitably recruit discursive categorizations in order to function. These senses forward both an ‘individ…
Creating ‘Local Publics’: Responsibility and Involvement in Decision-Making on Technologies with Local Impacts
This paper makes a conceptual inquiry into the notion of ‘publics’, and forwards an understanding of this notion that allows more responsible forms of decision-making with regards to technologies that have localized impacts, such as wind parks, hydrogen stations or flood barriers. The outcome of this inquiry is that the acceptability of a decision is to be assessed by a plurality of ‘publics’, including that of a local community. The paper presen…
When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”
Energy controversies have been widely studied. Such studies are, however, generally based on either single case studies, providing rich and in-depth understanding of (local) dynamics of planning and implementation processes, or they focus on understanding responses to a specific technology (not bound to a location). Therefore these studies tend to overlook a key dynamic in controversy, namely that publics respond to projects by drawing on earlier…
A reply to ‘Green shame: The next moral revolution?’
The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas
Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicke…
Developing social life cycle assessment based on corporate social responsibility: A chemical process industry case regarding human rights
MSocial Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) uses a life cycle perspective to assess social impacts of products, and the S-LCA guidelines describe developing the system boundaries based on a factory-level perspective. However, such a perspective may exclude stakeholders with a negative social performance which are cooperating with a factory but are not directly involved with the product under study, and it can result in a step back on corporate social r…
Public agency and responsibility in energy governance: A Q study on diverse imagined publics in the Dutch heat transition
In Energy Social Science (ESS), the concept of imagined publics is used to describe how energy actors perceive societal groups around new energy technologies and projects. Findings indicate that imagined publics often build upon deficit assumptions; people are (unjustly) considered unknowledgeable, incapable, unwilling and irresponsible agents in governance. While insightful, deficit-based explanations insufficiently capture the broad diversity o…
Institutions of justice and intuitions of fairness: Contesting goods, rules and inequalities
This paper examines the intrinsic relation between institutions and social justice. Its starting point is that processes of institutionalization invoke societal groups to articulate justice demands which, in their turn, give rise to processes of institutional redesign. In liberal democracies, demands for justice are articulated as a pursuit for emancipation and empowerment of groups that feel excluded by dominant categorizations. The imminent pre…
Understanding Value Change in the Energy Transition: Exploring the Perspective of Original Institutional Economics
In this paper, we take inspiration from original institutional economics (OIE) as an approach to study value change within the highly complex assembly of sociotechnical transformations that make up the energy transition. OIE is examined here as a suitable perspective, as it combines Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy and a methodological interactionist perspective on value change, behavior and institutions, with technology figuring as a transformation…
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences
In 2018, the European Union laid the foundation for a large-scale energy transition: away from fossilbased energy and towards renewable, sustainable energy solutions. A transition of such a large scale comes with challenges. To cope with the ills that an energy transition brings the European Commission proposed the Just Transition Fund in 2021. It serves as a financial buffer and provides strategic support for the successful energy transition to …
Adapting to changing values: A framework for responsible decision-making in smart city development
Smart cities are proposed as a solution for problems of urbanization. Technologies associated with smart cities involve the monitoring of human activities and resulting data streams. These technologies affect certain public values, which may be subject to change depending on their sociotechnical development. This paper presents a method that enables decision-makers to anticipate on this pattern of value change. This method uses two axes that allo…
Experts’ perspectives on the sustainability and risks of freely applicable MSWI bottom ash: A Q-methodology study in the Netherlands
Experts in the Netherlands have lately debated the novel policy idea to freely apply municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash (MSWIBA). In this paper, we map this ambivalent and unforeseeable, subjective, expert debate. This will help policymaking because more knowledge on subjective expert viewpoints and perceptions allows for clustering conflict and consent as well as gaps in common understanding in this complex debate. We applied Q-method…
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