From clouds to hailstorms: a policy and administrative science perspective on safeguarding public values in networked infrastructures

Veeneman, Wijnand; Dicke, Willemijn; Bruijne, Mark de

doi:10.1504/ijpp.2009.025080

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“…Hence, the case of Dutch flood risk management supports empirically the argument that these processes are not necessarily ‘linear and successive translation of public values, from first inception to implementation’ (Veeneman et al ., , 229). The realisation of water safety and flood protection are continuous processes.…”

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“…Veeneman et al . () defined four crucial processes in decision making on public values. First, public values are articulated in an advocacy process , in interaction between the public and the government.…”

Section: Public Values and Managementmentioning

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“…Moreover, the processes may not be expected to be sequential from articulation to provision. ‘In practice, decisions on public values are made by going back and forward between the stages, sometimes skipping a stage and returning to another’ (Veeneman et al ., , 228).…”

Section: Public Values and Managementmentioning

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Flood risk management in the Netherlands after the 1953 flood: a competition between the public value(s) of water

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2013

J Flood Risk Management

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Deltas like the Netherlands always face flooding risk. After the flood of 1953, flood risk management was geared towards achieving full safety, controlling the probability of flooding with high dikes and a shorter coastline. Yet, this approach became increasingly contested, as flood risk control was (re) linked to other values of water, like nature and landscape preservation and economic activities. This paper reconstructs how the process of policy making and implementation has sought to balance these multiple values over time. It shows that public values did not develop linearly into concrete standards and practices. Processes of re-articulation and political renegotiation of the meaning and importance of water safety took different paths with regard to both the river systems and the coastline. Curves in these paths can be seen as feedback mechanisms that verify the robustness of flood risk management measures and/or respond to changes in the character of the public values involved.

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Section: Public Values and Managementmentioning

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Flood risk management in the Netherlands after the 1953 flood: a competition between the public value(s) of water

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Broekhans

2013

J Flood Risk Management

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“…The core research approach has been to trace public values from their articulation in political arenas up to their realization in operational practice inside network companies (cf. [10,9]). The three main data sources in these researches are semi-structured interviews, formal documents in the domains of politics, policy and management and participatory observation in infrastructure operations.…”

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“…Like the legal answer, the political answer claims that the choices and ways in which the network company chooses its role should be primarily decided outside of the network companies, in the public domain. A classic perspective on public policy argues that Parliament translates societal demands into policy and ensures that acceptable policies exist for network companies to base their choices on [10].…”

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Reflections on the role of energy network companies in the energy transition

Steenhuisen

Bruijne

2015

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: Energy network companies are commonly attributed the public task to help society in becoming greener in the domain of energy. This extra public task has high costs and comes with high uncertainties. It may also compete with existing public tasks of network companies. When network companies are involved in local green initiatives, they encounter dilemmas and need to arrange trade-offs among multiple public values. It may also compete with existing tasks of network companies. Therefore, these network companies can face dilemmas when involved in local green initiatives. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the role of energy network companies in the face of these dilemmas. What is the role of energy network companies in coping with conflicting public values when helping local initiatives that create a greener energy system? Methods: We answer this question via an essay that reflects on existing research in the Dutch energy sector. Our answer is derived from the fields of law, politics, policy, economics and engineering about the role of network companies. Results and discussion: We argue that these five perspectives leave the role of energy network companies in the energy transition under-articulated. Our additional answer is based on our own empirical research that focuses on how network companies currently deal with dilemmas between multiple public tasks. Conclusion: We provide an analytical framework that enables a way of understanding the role of network companies in the struggle with dilemmas and raise several points of discussion to that might refocus efforts of researchers and practitioners to elucidate the role of network companies.

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