Peter Groote
Biographic Data
| ID | 845624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Groote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Groote |
| SIGNATURE | GROOTE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9642-4013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Israel’s perpetual burial challenge – a qualitative analysis of stakeholder views
Perpetual burial results in incremental, irreversible land consumption. When combined with positive population growth and general land constraints, opportunity costs can be problematic. In Israel, perpetual burial is the default state policy, shaped primarily by religious dictums. Despite the significance of this issue, the challenges of burial policy in Israel have not yet been studied from this perspective. To address this gap, we interviewed 1…
Place agency and visitor hybridity in place-making processes at sacred heritage sites
This paper investigates the relational nature of place-making at sacred heritage sites, taking Kyoto, Japan, as a case study to analyse how domestic tourists construct meaning in interaction with the spatial environment. Based on 11 semi-structured online interviews with Japanese spiritual tourists, an in-depth exploration of participants’ interactions with and co-construction of sacred spaces was conducted. The analysis centres on two themes. Fi…
‘No way! I'll stay! Who will get me out of here?’ House attachment and staying intentions of homeowners with a damaged dwelling in a rural risk area
Few studies have investigated staying intentions and house attachment of residents who are confronted with physical damage to their dwelling in a risk area. This paper examines whether and how homeowners who are confronted with human-induced risks and the consequences of gas extraction in the Dutch Groningen rural earthquake region are attached to their damaged dwellings and why they stay. A content analysis was performed on 92 published intervie…
Tourism metagovernance and the role of the state
This paper examines the institutionalised interests and values that underpin tourism governance (i.e., tourism metagovernance), to explain why certain governance arrangements appear and how they function. We examined the redevelopment of Beirut's tourism-dependent Mar Mikhael and Gemmayze neighbourhoods in the aftermath of the 2020 port blast. The chaotic post-disaster setting reflected and amplified the ineffectiveness of the already existing, s…
Strategic coupling of administrative rationality and cultural imaginaries in municipal amalgamations
Municipal amalgamations are widely applied interventions for enhancing policy delivery in a political-economic context of devolution, austerity, and decentralization of welfare states. This paper studies how public stakeholders in the Netherlands walked the tightrope between ‘hard’ political-administrative logic and ‘soft’ cultural-historical discourse to justify, institutionalize, and legitimize municipal amalgamations. It uses a theoretical app…
Making use of sense of place in amalgamated municipalities
Political-administrative reorganizations are often underpinned by spatial and historical narratives to tap into people’s sense of place and, this way, justify the new territories. Using a mixed-methods study of the recently amalgamated municipality Het Hogeland (Netherlands), we studied how sense of place is politically mobilized and in what sense this corresponds with residents’ associations with their living environment. While inter-municipal c…
We have a shared history
This article explores senses of belonging of three Indo-European generations and examines how these are influenced by roots travel to contemporary Indonesia. We use the notion of roots tourism to refer to tourism to ancestral homelands to ‘experience heritage at the personal level’. While the notion of roots tourism has gained scholarly attention, multiple diasporic generations are often studied as a single phenomenon. By analysing life story int…
Does local planning culture influence the effectiveness of impact assessments
We explore whether local planning culture influences the effectiveness of heritage impact assessment (HIA) and we discuss the legitimacy of ICOMOS, the international advisory body to UNESCO on cultural heritage. We examined the HIA processes for two proposed infrastructure projects that potentially could affect the Defence Line of Amsterdam World Heritage site in the Netherlands. We interviewed key stakeholders involved in decision-making about t…
Industrial heritage in tourism marketing
Many post-industrial regions reinterpret their industrial past as a heritage resource for marketing purposes. This paper explores how two sites in the Ruhr area in Germany, Zollverein and Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, are narrated in marketing brochures with selective industrial heritage narratives. Industrial heritage is utilized for both immediate marketing purposes and as a tool for memory and identity politics. Through thematic analysis, we …
Negotiating claims of 'whiteness
This paper examines identity formations and negotiations among Indo-Europeans, and senses of 'race' in the postcolonial Netherlands. We do so by analysing daily practices of 'being', 'feeling' and 'doing' identities by second-and third-generation Indo-Europeans in the North-Eastern Netherlands. The paper contributes to 'mixed-race' literature by highlighting new, underexplored contexts in which 'mixed-race' identities are negotiated. We focus on …
The legacy of literacy
Italy was unified in 1861. As part of the process of nation-building, a mandatory free-of-charge primary school system was established. Whereas the new school system greatly contributed to the modernization of the country, its initial design did not considerably reduce regional disparities in human capital, with Southern regions lagging behind. The paper studies the effects of the heterogeneous territorial diffusion of literacy during the post-un…
The influence of framing on the legitimacy of impact assessment
The expertise of impact assessment practitioners and the legitimacy of their reports are increasingly being questioned. We analyze the subjectivity of impact assessment by exploring how the framing undertaken within Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) influences decision making about spatial development projects. Framing is the process by which actors order and make sense of social reality. We argue that framing influences the content, conclusions, …
Living standards in a dairy region, 1850–1900
This paper adds to our knowledge and understanding of the time and space dimensions of the shift from an urban penalty to an urban premium effect on the biological standard of living in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although in the literature there is general agreement that urban-rural relations are part of the explanation of declining stature in the period of early economic growth (the so-called Komlos paradox), little is known abou…
Improving heritage impact assessment
In 2011, ICOMOS published its Guidance on Heritage Impact Assessment for Cultural World Heritage Properties. By 2016, over 100 Heritage Impact Assessments (HIAs) had been requested by UNESCO. This paper provides an analytical critique of the HIA Guidelines focusing on their implicit assumptions. We argue that the assumptions in the HIA Guidelines derive from the ‘preservation’ discourse in heritage management, rather than from the ‘conservation’ …
Reframing place promotion, place marketing, and place branding - moving beyond conceptual confusion
Understanding the historical institutional context by using content analysis of local policy and planning documents
Using a social-ecological systems perspective to understand tourism and landscape interactions in coastal areas
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at the potential synergies between tourism and landscapes and examine the potential contribution of tourism to build social-ecological resilience in the Dutch Wadden. Design/methodology/approach The authors reveal how a social-ecological systems perspective can be used to conceptualize the Wadden as a coupled and dynamic system. This paper is a conceptual analysis that applies this approach to the Dutc…
Regional Capitals in the Netherlands
Population Growth of Cities in the Netherlands
How Future‐Proof are Dutch Cities
Housing Related Fees and Real Estate Tax Rates in Cities in the Netherlands
Economic Performance of Cities in the Netherlands
Postmodern crematoria in the Netherlands
Since 2002, cremation has been the dominant form of bodily disposal in the Netherlands. Consequently, people are increasingly using crematoria as places to say farewell to their loved ones. However, in contemporary society, with its growing demand for more personalised death rites, many crematoria have been criticised for being technical ‘non-places’ rather than symbolic ones permitting emotional fulfilment. We selected recently-built crematoria …
Expressions of Private Mourning in Public Space
A visual content analysis of photos of 2176 roadside memorials in The Netherlands was undertaken together with 24 interviews with the people who constructed them to understand how they deal with traumatic death. Friends urgently need to memorialize the deceased and establish spontaneous memorials. They place meaningful objects at the place of death, not necessarily indicating the deceased's identity. In contrast, permanent memorials identify who …
Deathscapes
Avril Maddrell and James D. Sidaway (eds) Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, xviii+305 pp., stg£45 hardback, (ISBN 978-0-7546-7975-2) We were there, in 2008, in Bath at the DDD8 conference (on ‘The Social Con
Reframing place promotion, place marketing, and place branding - moving beyond conceptual confusion
Measuring age differentials in representations of rurality in The Netherlands
Analysing Regional Identities in the Netherlands
Scale‐enlargement processes have made people more conscious of the identity of their region. Professionals, or those actors involved professionally in the development of a region, also recognise this impact on popular perception and they use characteristics of regions to fulfil their goals. They play an important role in employing the identity of a region. The extent to which this occurs varies between regions, which mean that some regions have s…
Improving heritage impact assessment
In 2011, ICOMOS published its Guidance on Heritage Impact Assessment for Cultural World Heritage Properties. By 2016, over 100 Heritage Impact Assessments (HIAs) had been requested by UNESCO. This paper provides an analytical critique of the HIA Guidelines focusing on their implicit assumptions. We argue that the assumptions in the HIA Guidelines derive from the ‘preservation’ discourse in heritage management, rather than from the ‘conservation’ …
Expressions of Private Mourning in Public Space
A visual content analysis of photos of 2176 roadside memorials in The Netherlands was undertaken together with 24 interviews with the people who constructed them to understand how they deal with traumatic death. Friends urgently need to memorialize the deceased and establish spontaneous memorials. They place meaningful objects at the place of death, not necessarily indicating the deceased's identity. In contrast, permanent memorials identify who …
Deathscapes
Avril Maddrell and James D. Sidaway (eds) Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, xviii+305 pp., stg£45 hardback, (ISBN 978-0-7546-7975-2) We were there, in 2008, in Bath at the DDD8 conference (on ‘The Social Con
Rural Areas in the Netherlands
According to the OECD standard, there are no rural areas in the Netherlands. Nonetheless, debate continues about the future of the Dutch countryside. In order to explore how Dutch inhabitants think about rural areas a survey was conducted by the authors, focusing on two topics: the kind of associations respondents to the survey have with respect to rural areas; and where they think rural areas are located in the Netherlands. The analysis shows th…
Living standards in a dairy region, 1850–1900
This paper adds to our knowledge and understanding of the time and space dimensions of the shift from an urban penalty to an urban premium effect on the biological standard of living in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although in the literature there is general agreement that urban-rural relations are part of the explanation of declining stature in the period of early economic growth (the so-called Komlos paradox), little is known abou…
Industrial heritage in tourism marketing
Many post-industrial regions reinterpret their industrial past as a heritage resource for marketing purposes. This paper explores how two sites in the Ruhr area in Germany, Zollverein and Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, are narrated in marketing brochures with selective industrial heritage narratives. Industrial heritage is utilized for both immediate marketing purposes and as a tool for memory and identity politics. Through thematic analysis, we …
Population Growth of Cities in the Netherlands
Nature in the Netherlands
Place agency and visitor hybridity in place-making processes at sacred heritage sites
This paper investigates the relational nature of place-making at sacred heritage sites, taking Kyoto, Japan, as a case study to analyse how domestic tourists construct meaning in interaction with the spatial environment. Based on 11 semi-structured online interviews with Japanese spiritual tourists, an in-depth exploration of participants’ interactions with and co-construction of sacred spaces was conducted. The analysis centres on two themes. Fi…
Strategic coupling of administrative rationality and cultural imaginaries in municipal amalgamations
Municipal amalgamations are widely applied interventions for enhancing policy delivery in a political-economic context of devolution, austerity, and decentralization of welfare states. This paper studies how public stakeholders in the Netherlands walked the tightrope between ‘hard’ political-administrative logic and ‘soft’ cultural-historical discourse to justify, institutionalize, and legitimize municipal amalgamations. It uses a theoretical app…
Making use of sense of place in amalgamated municipalities
Political-administrative reorganizations are often underpinned by spatial and historical narratives to tap into people’s sense of place and, this way, justify the new territories. Using a mixed-methods study of the recently amalgamated municipality Het Hogeland (Netherlands), we studied how sense of place is politically mobilized and in what sense this corresponds with residents’ associations with their living environment. While inter-municipal c…
We have a shared history
This article explores senses of belonging of three Indo-European generations and examines how these are influenced by roots travel to contemporary Indonesia. We use the notion of roots tourism to refer to tourism to ancestral homelands to ‘experience heritage at the personal level’. While the notion of roots tourism has gained scholarly attention, multiple diasporic generations are often studied as a single phenomenon. By analysing life story int…
The legacy of literacy
Italy was unified in 1861. As part of the process of nation-building, a mandatory free-of-charge primary school system was established. Whereas the new school system greatly contributed to the modernization of the country, its initial design did not considerably reduce regional disparities in human capital, with Southern regions lagging behind. The paper studies the effects of the heterogeneous territorial diffusion of literacy during the post-un…
Understanding the historical institutional context by using content analysis of local policy and planning documents
Negotiating claims of 'whiteness
This paper examines identity formations and negotiations among Indo-Europeans, and senses of 'race' in the postcolonial Netherlands. We do so by analysing daily practices of 'being', 'feeling' and 'doing' identities by second-and third-generation Indo-Europeans in the North-Eastern Netherlands. The paper contributes to 'mixed-race' literature by highlighting new, underexplored contexts in which 'mixed-race' identities are negotiated. We focus on …
Regional Capitals in the Netherlands
How Future‐Proof are Dutch Cities
Standard of Living Effects Due to Infrastructure Improvements in the 19th Century
We use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze the relationship between the biological standard of living and the development of the transport network in 90 municipalities located in the rural provinces of Groningen and Drenthe, the Netherlands, in the historical context of the 19th century. By running advanced spatiotemporal models, we find empirical evidence in favor of the so-called antebellum puzzle. This puzzle states that although t…
Hunger and migration in a rural-traditional area in the nineteenth century
Output Effects of Transport Infrastructure
In this paper we put to trial the alleged role of investment in transport and communications infrastructure in economic growth in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. To do so, we combine a new data set with data‐oriented econometric techniques. Testing of the main hypothesis by applying Granger's concept of causation in a vector auto‐regression model reveals that the development of infrastructure ‘caused’ Dutch economic …
Hunger and migration in a rural-traditional area in the nineteenth century
Measuring age differentials in representations of rurality in The Netherlands
Rural Areas in the Netherlands
According to the OECD standard, there are no rural areas in the Netherlands. Nonetheless, debate continues about the future of the Dutch countryside. In order to explore how Dutch inhabitants think about rural areas a survey was conducted by the authors, focusing on two topics: the kind of associations respondents to the survey have with respect to rural areas; and where they think rural areas are located in the Netherlands. The analysis shows th…
Nature in the Netherlands
Roadside memorials from a geographical perspective
Roadside memorials are frequently visible in the Netherlands. Such a memorial marks a previously anonymous roadside, which is transformed into a place with special, even sacred, meanings to the bereaved, as it is the place where their loved one has died. We look at these memorials from a geographical point of view, i.e. we discuss the memorials as meaningful places. How do these places look, how do they function and what do they mean? We created …
Standard of Living Effects Due to Infrastructure Improvements in the 19th Century
We use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze the relationship between the biological standard of living and the development of the transport network in 90 municipalities located in the rural provinces of Groningen and Drenthe, the Netherlands, in the historical context of the 19th century. By running advanced spatiotemporal models, we find empirical evidence in favor of the so-called antebellum puzzle. This puzzle states that although t…
Analysing Regional Identities in the Netherlands
Scale‐enlargement processes have made people more conscious of the identity of their region. Professionals, or those actors involved professionally in the development of a region, also recognise this impact on popular perception and they use characteristics of regions to fulfil their goals. They play an important role in employing the identity of a region. The extent to which this occurs varies between regions, which mean that some regions have s…
Expressions of Private Mourning in Public Space
A visual content analysis of photos of 2176 roadside memorials in The Netherlands was undertaken together with 24 interviews with the people who constructed them to understand how they deal with traumatic death. Friends urgently need to memorialize the deceased and establish spontaneous memorials. They place meaningful objects at the place of death, not necessarily indicating the deceased's identity. In contrast, permanent memorials identify who …
Deathscapes
Avril Maddrell and James D. Sidaway (eds) Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, xviii+305 pp., stg£45 hardback, (ISBN 978-0-7546-7975-2) We were there, in 2008, in Bath at the DDD8 conference (on ‘The Social Con
Postmodern crematoria in the Netherlands
Since 2002, cremation has been the dominant form of bodily disposal in the Netherlands. Consequently, people are increasingly using crematoria as places to say farewell to their loved ones. However, in contemporary society, with its growing demand for more personalised death rites, many crematoria have been criticised for being technical ‘non-places’ rather than symbolic ones permitting emotional fulfilment. We selected recently-built crematoria …
Regional Capitals in the Netherlands
Population Growth of Cities in the Netherlands
How Future‐Proof are Dutch Cities
Housing Related Fees and Real Estate Tax Rates in Cities in the Netherlands
Economic Performance of Cities in the Netherlands
Using a social-ecological systems perspective to understand tourism and landscape interactions in coastal areas
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at the potential synergies between tourism and landscapes and examine the potential contribution of tourism to build social-ecological resilience in the Dutch Wadden. Design/methodology/approach The authors reveal how a social-ecological systems perspective can be used to conceptualize the Wadden as a coupled and dynamic system. This paper is a conceptual analysis that applies this approach to the Dutc…
Reframing place promotion, place marketing, and place branding - moving beyond conceptual confusion
Understanding the historical institutional context by using content analysis of local policy and planning documents
Improving heritage impact assessment
In 2011, ICOMOS published its Guidance on Heritage Impact Assessment for Cultural World Heritage Properties. By 2016, over 100 Heritage Impact Assessments (HIAs) had been requested by UNESCO. This paper provides an analytical critique of the HIA Guidelines focusing on their implicit assumptions. We argue that the assumptions in the HIA Guidelines derive from the ‘preservation’ discourse in heritage management, rather than from the ‘conservation’ …
The influence of framing on the legitimacy of impact assessment
The expertise of impact assessment practitioners and the legitimacy of their reports are increasingly being questioned. We analyze the subjectivity of impact assessment by exploring how the framing undertaken within Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) influences decision making about spatial development projects. Framing is the process by which actors order and make sense of social reality. We argue that framing influences the content, conclusions, …
Living standards in a dairy region, 1850–1900
This paper adds to our knowledge and understanding of the time and space dimensions of the shift from an urban penalty to an urban premium effect on the biological standard of living in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although in the literature there is general agreement that urban-rural relations are part of the explanation of declining stature in the period of early economic growth (the so-called Komlos paradox), little is known abou…
The legacy of literacy
Italy was unified in 1861. As part of the process of nation-building, a mandatory free-of-charge primary school system was established. Whereas the new school system greatly contributed to the modernization of the country, its initial design did not considerably reduce regional disparities in human capital, with Southern regions lagging behind. The paper studies the effects of the heterogeneous territorial diffusion of literacy during the post-un…
Does local planning culture influence the effectiveness of impact assessments
We explore whether local planning culture influences the effectiveness of heritage impact assessment (HIA) and we discuss the legitimacy of ICOMOS, the international advisory body to UNESCO on cultural heritage. We examined the HIA processes for two proposed infrastructure projects that potentially could affect the Defence Line of Amsterdam World Heritage site in the Netherlands. We interviewed key stakeholders involved in decision-making about t…
Industrial heritage in tourism marketing
Many post-industrial regions reinterpret their industrial past as a heritage resource for marketing purposes. This paper explores how two sites in the Ruhr area in Germany, Zollverein and Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, are narrated in marketing brochures with selective industrial heritage narratives. Industrial heritage is utilized for both immediate marketing purposes and as a tool for memory and identity politics. Through thematic analysis, we …
Geography (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Tourism (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Business (7 works)