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Project | W*O*L*F* exposes how big industry obstructs transitions to a low-emission society and climate justice. | 2022-2054

The W*O*L*F blog  This blog offers essays, books, and articles that either demonstrate or that can help you uncover and expose big industry’s playbook.   Tactics and strategies: delayism | denialism | greenwashing | lobbying | propaganda |  Topics: research funding | sponsorship |  Industries: fossil | aviation | agro… Read more Project | W*O*L*F* exposes how big industry obstructs transitions to a low-emission society and climate justice. | 2022-2054 →

Special Issue | Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions | Van Assche, K., Duineveld, M., Beunen, R., Valentinov, V., & Gruezmacher, M.

Special Issue Journal Environmental Policy and Planning Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions Editors: Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld, Monica Gruezmacher, Raoul Beunen & Vladislav ValentinovNobody wants a return… Read more Special Issue | Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions | Van Assche, K., Duineveld, M., Beunen, R., Valentinov, V., & Gruezmacher, M. →

New paper | Transnational circuits of policy knowledge and discursive migration. The formation and transformation of planning policies in Argentina | Rodrigo Alves Rolo, et al.

We analyse the migration of academic and policy discourses that contributed to (de)legitimise the formation of planning policies in Argentina since the 1950s. We focus on the communicative/collaborative rationality discourses… Read more New paper | Transnational circuits of policy knowledge and discursive migration. The formation and transformation of planning policies in Argentina | Rodrigo Alves Rolo, et al. →

New paper | Material Pacification: How a Conflict Over Paving Uganda’s Tourism Road Got Accidentally Resolved | By Christine Ampumuza, et al.

Starting from an Actor-network Theory (ANT) inspired relational perspective on object formation and material agency, this article analyses the controversies about plans to pave the Ruhija road through Bwindi Impenetrable… Read more New paper | Material Pacification: How a Conflict Over Paving Uganda’s Tourism Road Got Accidentally Resolved | By Christine Ampumuza, et al. →

New Paper | Strategy and Steering in Governance: The Changing Fates of the Argentine Planning Council | By Rodrigo Alves Rolo, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld

Abstract | Based on a detailed study of the return of national-level planning in Argentina as embodied by COFEPLAN, the national planning council, we develop a conceptual framework to analyse the… Read more New Paper | Strategy and Steering in Governance: The Changing Fates of the Argentine Planning Council | By Rodrigo Alves Rolo, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld →

PhD defence | 26 05 2021 | Batwa, Gorillas and the Ruhija Road: a relational perspective on controversies at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda | By Christine Ampumuza

In this thesis I take a relational perspective as an alternative way of understanding the controversies around conservation, development and tourism at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park [Bwindi]. Drawing from my… Read more PhD defence | 26 05 2021 | Batwa, Gorillas and the Ruhija Road: a relational perspective on controversies at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda | By Christine Ampumuza →

Paper | The most marginalized people in Uganda? Alternative realities of Batwa at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. |

Ampumuza, C., Duineveld, M., René Van der Duim, R. (2020) The most marginalized people in Uganda? Alternative realities of Batwa at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. World Development Perspectives 20: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100267… Read more Paper | The most marginalized people in Uganda? Alternative realities of Batwa at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. | →

Blog | Resilience, reinvention and transition during and after quarantine | By Kristof Van Assche , Martijn Duineveld, S. Jeff Birchall, Leith Deacon, Raoul Beunen, Monica Gruezmacher, and Daan Boezeman

In the period of quarantine The Covid-10 crisis has isolated many people but it didn’t stop people from sharing stories about the situation and about what comes back after quarantine.… Read more Blog | Resilience, reinvention and transition during and after quarantine | By Kristof Van Assche , Martijn Duineveld, S. Jeff Birchall, Leith Deacon, Raoul Beunen, Monica Gruezmacher, and Daan Boezeman →

CANCELED | Lentecollege | De leefbaarheidsillusie | Door: Martijn Duineveld | Dinsdag 24 maart | 20.00 uur | Hotel De Nieuwe Wereld, Marijkeweg 5, Wageningen

Uitnodiging lentecollege: De leefbare stad Wat maakt een stad leefbaar? En hoe vertaal je een maatschappelijke opgave als ‘gezondheid’ naar de fysieke omgeving? Kom voor antwoorden op deze vragen dinsdag 24… Read more CANCELED | Lentecollege | De leefbaarheidsillusie | Door: Martijn Duineveld | Dinsdag 24 maart | 20.00 uur | Hotel De Nieuwe Wereld, Marijkeweg 5, Wageningen →

Long read | Rotsoord: mag het misschien wat groener en inclusiever? Een analyse en 6 aanbevelingen | Door: Martijn Duineveld en Roel During

Inleiding Burgers ontplooien steeds vaker zelf maatschappelijke initiatieven om hun leefomgeving te verbeteren, omdat ze vinden dat de overheid of de markt het laat afweten. Ze zijn in toenemende mate professioneel georganiseerd en ze proberen de belangen te behartigen van de bewoners van wijken en buurten. Overheden op hun beurt willen bewoners steeds beter bij de planning, vormgeving en onderhoud van de stad betrekken. Zo ook in Utrecht, de snelst groeiende stad van Nederland waar op 30 juni 2016 een brede vertegenwoordiging in de Utrechtse gemeenteraad motie 99 aannam. Deze… Read more Long read | Rotsoord: mag het misschien wat groener en inclusiever? Een analyse en 6 aanbevelingen | Door: Martijn Duineveld en Roel During →