Integrated river basin management increases technical as well as management and governance complexity. In this multidisciplinary setting, actors, from their different backgrounds, frame both issues and solutions differently. To resolve conflicts, it is important to recognize – and to not ignore – the …

Over de ‘niet-bezoeker’ van cultuur

In de tweede kamer zijn onlangs vragen gesteld over de ‘niet-bezoeker’. In deze notitie schetsen we, op basis van bestaand onderzoek, een beeld van wat er bekend is over de ‘niet-bezoeker’. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat het cultuurbereik in Nederland boven de 90% van de Nederlandse bevolking ligt; beperken …

What kinds of live music are available to the citizens of the cities of Groningen and Utrecht? That is the main question in two research projects, of which the databases have been made accessible in the Dataverse City Musicscapes (Lelieveldt & Bisschop Boele, 2018). At first sight databases of statistical …

Over de ‘niet-bezoeker’ van cultuur

Social scientists of conservation typically address sources of legitimacy of conservation policies in relation to local communities’ or indigenous land rights, highlighting social inequality and environmental injustice. This chapter reflects on the underlying ethics of environmental justice in order …

In response to the growing ethnic and cultural diversity in Dutch society and its labormarket, public organizations in the Netherlands are increasingly crafting diversity policies and conducting diversity interventions. Little is known,however, about the effectiveness of nterventions that are used to …

Community Music presents a contested field. Cultural policy has had a hard time dealing with community music because aesthetic intentions, social objectives and economic motivations may all play a role for actors and sometimes clash. This chapter provides a scheme of the basic tensions inherent to community …

City growth threatens sustainable development of cities. Over the past decades increased urbanization has created more pressure - not only on the suburban outskirts - but also in the inner core of the cities, putting important environmental issues such as water management and cultural heritage under …

Understanding heterogeneity in farm development strategies is important in order to design effective policies and support programs to increase the sustainability of agriculture in relation to its socio-material context. Using a unique case study of 102 dairy farmers in The Netherlands, all operating …