David Evers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5774774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Evers |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Evers |
| SIGNATURE | EVERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6794-1062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Taking land seriously
Exploring the implications of no net land take policy for spatial planning
The European Union’s no net land take (NNLT) target, which seeks to halt greenfield development by 2050, is very pertinent for planners. The present article investigates its potential impact with special attention for the Netherlands. Given that no single definition or methodology had been established at the EU level, land take was calculated over the 2000–2018 period for alternative definitions. A result is that qualitative approaches oriented t…
A marriage of inconvenience
For decades, the European Union has affected spatial planning in the member states through its environmental policies. To investigate the mechanism by which EU policy becomes joined up to spatial planning, we invoke the concept of ‘coupling’ from systems and organizational science. We show that coupling is established not only at the EU policymaking level (e.g. within a directive’s text), but also during implementation and enforcement. Consequent…
Research in action
Planning researchers often engage in international comparative research oriented to improving domestic planning practices. However, policy transfer is seldom sucsessful because the identified ‘best practices’ are insufficiently applicable or transferable. To address this, we employed a reflexive action-oriented methodology valorise the results of an ESPON project on sustainable urbanisation in two specific contexts: Lithuania’s national strategic…
Covid-19 as a systemic shock
The COVID-19 pandemic, originating as a health crisis but quickly expanding to other social spheres, had significant and asymmetric impacts across Europe, which potentially undermine territorial cohesion. Much has been written about the overall impact of the pandemic on the underlying thematic and budgetary focus of European Union-level policies with respect to territorial cohesion. However, it remains unclear to what extent policies implemented …
Reurbanisation and suburbia in Northwest Europe
Following decades of urban decline in many European cities, there is now an abundant literature identifying a process of reurbanisation, which has now also reached many secondary cities, including those in post-industrialised regions. Reurbanisation is an umbrella concept involving several related but distinct processes, though has its roots in spatial cycle models that consider reurbanisation to be a specific stage in the development of urban re…
Illuminating the Black Box of the Government to Governance Transformation Thesis
The Dutch national government likes to present itself as modern, open and having embraced the transition from government to governance (transformation thesis). In 2015, it launched its ‘Urban Agenda’ to harness the creative potential of cities to solve complex problems by means of city deals: voluntary agreements between municipalities, national ministries and private parties. City deals were supposed to operate according to the precepts of netwo…
Scenarios on the spatial and economic development of Europe
Integrated Mercury Monitoring Program for Temperate Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems on the North American Atlantic Coast
Reflections on Territorial Cohesion and European Spatial Planning
From a strictly legal point of view, the European Union does not have authority to carry out spatial planning. The closest thing resembling a spatial policy is the outdated and unofficial European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). The inclusion of the term ‘territorial cohesion’ in the Reform Treaty has created new opportunities for proponents of European spatial planning. Despite wide political support for the concept, there is still littl…
Beyond Heuristics
Scenarios, unlike forecasts or prognoses, do not seek to predict future events. Instead, the intent is to understand how the future is produced by examining a number of possible developmental pathways. These pathways are created by adjusting a limited number of variables within a particular cause‐effect chain of events. The insights generated by the scenario method not only produce knowledge about driving forces but also regarding the capacity to…
The Rise (and fall?) of National Retail Planning
One of the most important factors driving urbanisation processes is the location of shops. The Netherlands has taken a particularly hard line against what it calls ‘peripheral’ developments by establishing rules at the national level to curb the growth of out‐of‐town hypermarkets and shopping malls. With the arrival of the Fifth Report on Spatial Planning draft, this resolve seems to have weakened, and deregulation and decentralisation have becom…
Covid-19 as a systemic shock
The COVID-19 pandemic, originating as a health crisis but quickly expanding to other social spheres, had significant and asymmetric impacts across Europe, which potentially undermine territorial cohesion. Much has been written about the overall impact of the pandemic on the underlying thematic and budgetary focus of European Union-level policies with respect to territorial cohesion. However, it remains unclear to what extent policies implemented …
The Rise (and fall?) of National Retail Planning
One of the most important factors driving urbanisation processes is the location of shops. The Netherlands has taken a particularly hard line against what it calls ‘peripheral’ developments by establishing rules at the national level to curb the growth of out‐of‐town hypermarkets and shopping malls. With the arrival of the Fifth Report on Spatial Planning draft, this resolve seems to have weakened, and deregulation and decentralisation have becom…
Reflections on Territorial Cohesion and European Spatial Planning
From a strictly legal point of view, the European Union does not have authority to carry out spatial planning. The closest thing resembling a spatial policy is the outdated and unofficial European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). The inclusion of the term ‘territorial cohesion’ in the Reform Treaty has created new opportunities for proponents of European spatial planning. Despite wide political support for the concept, there is still littl…
Beyond Heuristics
Scenarios, unlike forecasts or prognoses, do not seek to predict future events. Instead, the intent is to understand how the future is produced by examining a number of possible developmental pathways. These pathways are created by adjusting a limited number of variables within a particular cause‐effect chain of events. The insights generated by the scenario method not only produce knowledge about driving forces but also regarding the capacity to…
The Rise (and fall?) of National Retail Planning
One of the most important factors driving urbanisation processes is the location of shops. The Netherlands has taken a particularly hard line against what it calls ‘peripheral’ developments by establishing rules at the national level to curb the growth of out‐of‐town hypermarkets and shopping malls. With the arrival of the Fifth Report on Spatial Planning draft, this resolve seems to have weakened, and deregulation and decentralisation have becom…
Integrated Mercury Monitoring Program for Temperate Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems on the North American Atlantic Coast
Reflections on Territorial Cohesion and European Spatial Planning
From a strictly legal point of view, the European Union does not have authority to carry out spatial planning. The closest thing resembling a spatial policy is the outdated and unofficial European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). The inclusion of the term ‘territorial cohesion’ in the Reform Treaty has created new opportunities for proponents of European spatial planning. Despite wide political support for the concept, there is still littl…
Beyond Heuristics
Scenarios, unlike forecasts or prognoses, do not seek to predict future events. Instead, the intent is to understand how the future is produced by examining a number of possible developmental pathways. These pathways are created by adjusting a limited number of variables within a particular cause‐effect chain of events. The insights generated by the scenario method not only produce knowledge about driving forces but also regarding the capacity to…
Scenarios on the spatial and economic development of Europe
Reurbanisation and suburbia in Northwest Europe
Following decades of urban decline in many European cities, there is now an abundant literature identifying a process of reurbanisation, which has now also reached many secondary cities, including those in post-industrialised regions. Reurbanisation is an umbrella concept involving several related but distinct processes, though has its roots in spatial cycle models that consider reurbanisation to be a specific stage in the development of urban re…
Illuminating the Black Box of the Government to Governance Transformation Thesis
The Dutch national government likes to present itself as modern, open and having embraced the transition from government to governance (transformation thesis). In 2015, it launched its ‘Urban Agenda’ to harness the creative potential of cities to solve complex problems by means of city deals: voluntary agreements between municipalities, national ministries and private parties. City deals were supposed to operate according to the precepts of netwo…
Covid-19 as a systemic shock
The COVID-19 pandemic, originating as a health crisis but quickly expanding to other social spheres, had significant and asymmetric impacts across Europe, which potentially undermine territorial cohesion. Much has been written about the overall impact of the pandemic on the underlying thematic and budgetary focus of European Union-level policies with respect to territorial cohesion. However, it remains unclear to what extent policies implemented …
A marriage of inconvenience
For decades, the European Union has affected spatial planning in the member states through its environmental policies. To investigate the mechanism by which EU policy becomes joined up to spatial planning, we invoke the concept of ‘coupling’ from systems and organizational science. We show that coupling is established not only at the EU policymaking level (e.g. within a directive’s text), but also during implementation and enforcement. Consequent…
Research in action
Planning researchers often engage in international comparative research oriented to improving domestic planning practices. However, policy transfer is seldom sucsessful because the identified ‘best practices’ are insufficiently applicable or transferable. To address this, we employed a reflexive action-oriented methodology valorise the results of an ESPON project on sustainable urbanisation in two specific contexts: Lithuania’s national strategic…
Exploring the implications of no net land take policy for spatial planning
The European Union’s no net land take (NNLT) target, which seeks to halt greenfield development by 2050, is very pertinent for planners. The present article investigates its potential impact with special attention for the Netherlands. Given that no single definition or methodology had been established at the EU level, land take was calculated over the 2000–2018 period for alternative definitions. A result is that qualitative approaches oriented t…
Taking land seriously
Political science (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (5 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · European union (4 works) · Regional Development and Policy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)