In this policy evaluation report, the results of the first 2 years of the Interreg funded ABCitiEs project are presented. In total 16 entrepreneurship collectives have been studied in 5 partner regions, i.e. Athens, Vilnius, Varazdin-Cakovec, Manchester and Amsterdam. The report contains an analysis …

Reducing energy consumption in urban households is essential for reaching the necessary climate research and policy targets for CO2 reduction and sustainability. The dominant approach has been to invest in technological innovations that increase household energy efficiency. This article moves beyond …

In een tijd waarin de woningnood hoog is en verdichting dé manier waarop stadsontwikkeling plaats vindt, zoekt Amsterdam manieren om ‘vrije ruimte’ in de stad te beschermen. Waar komt deze ambitie vandaan? En welke vorm van beleid is passend voor vrije ruimte, terwijl overheidssturing hier juist zo veel …

Entrepreneurial participation from the neighbourhood is the final report of a two-year action research that investigated how cooperating formal and informal parties can support small-scale entrepreneurship in the Amsterdam neighbourhoods and stimulate participation by people who have unemployment benefits. …

De Nederlandse ruimtelijke planningstraditie van de 20ste eeuw is internationaal bekend vanwege haar grootschalige, projectmatige en integrale aanpak. Daarin spelen de overheid, grote marktpartijen en het maatschappelijk middenveld een belangrijke rol (Van der Cammen en de Klerk, 2012). In de afgelopen …

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have deployed various strategies in motivating businesses to source sustainably, such as the co-development and promotion of sustainability certification and direct collaboration in cross-sector partnerships (CSPs). This is an important current-day priority, given the ambitions …

This book presents the results of the international research project CODALoop: Community Data Loop for Energy Conscious Lifestyles. It dissects the energy practices that make urban households demanding energy in their daily life and reveals the pathway towards reducing this energy demand. To unpack energy …