‘On tomorrow's grounds’, Flemish agriculture in 2030: a case of participatory translation of sustainability principles into a vision for the future

Nevens, Frank; Dessein, Joost; Meul, Marijke; Rogge, Elke; Verbruggen, Ignace; Mulier, Annelies; Passel, Steven Van; Lepoutre, Jan; Hongenaert, M

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2007.06.007

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“…In this vein, urban sustainability assessment can be used as a visioning tool [95] to identify aspirational goals and objectives while also being implemented as a post-facto assessment tool as well. This proposal is supported by Reed et al [99], who propose that sustainability indicators should not just be applied as a measurement tool, but rather they can be utilized to identify problems, set goals, and establish management strategies as well. Indeed, an evaluation tool's utility may be maximized when it can be used as an input for planning interventions and setting sustainability visions [79].…”

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A Systematic Review of Urban Sustainability Assessment Literature

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Abstract:As the world rapidly urbanizes, there is much focus on achieving sustainability outcomes within cities. Accomplishing this goal requires not only envisioning sustainable cities and implementing strategies, but it also demands assessing progress towards sustainable urban development. Despite a growing literature on sustainability assessment, there is room to further understand the application of sustainability assessment in urban contexts. This paper presents a systematic review of urban sustainability assessment literature to (1) identify the most common methods used for urban sustainability assessment, (2) identify the most common framings for urban sustainability assessment, and (3) identify the most common categories for organizing indicators that measure urban sustainability. This research finds that urban sustainability assessment in general lacks a unifying framing and that it could be better aligned with common sustainability principles. The paper provides recommendations for future urban sustainability assessment research, including the employment of mixed-methods research among other strategies. In closing, this research offers a generic framework around which to structure urban sustainability assessment and within which to assign indicators for measuring progress towards sustainable urban development.

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A Systematic Review of Urban Sustainability Assessment Literature

2017

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“…Mulier et al (2004) describe the options for MOTIFS tool design and the (dis)advantages in the development of an instrument to monitor sustainability at the farm level. Nevens et al (2008) provide input for a tool in Flanders using a participatory visioning process. Meul et al (2008) describe the methodology and actual development of MOTIFS for Flemish dairy farms.…”

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Key characteristics for tool choice in indicator-based sustainability assessment at farm level

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ABSTRACT. Although the literature on sustainability assessment tools to support decision making in agriculture is rapidly growing, little attention has been paid to the actual tool choice. We focused on the choice of more complex integrated indicator-based tools at the farm level. The objective was to determine key characteristics as criteria for tool choice. This was done with an in-depth comparison of 2 cases: the Monitoring Tool for Integrated Farm Sustainability and the Public Goods Tool. They differ in characteristics that may influence tool choice: data, time, and budgetary requirements. With an enhanced framework, we derived 11 key characteristics to describe differences between the case tools. Based on the key characteristics, we defined 2 types of indicator-based tools: full sustainability assessment (FSA) and rapid sustainability assessment (RSA). RSA tools are more oriented toward communicating and learning. They are therefore more suitable for use by a larger group of farmers, can help to raise awareness, trigger farmers to become interested in sustainable farming, and highlight areas of good or bad performance. If and when farmers increase their commitment to on-farm sustainability, they can gain additional insight by using an FSA tool. Based on complementary and modular use of the tools, practical recommendations for the different end users, i.e., researchers, farmers, advisers, and so forth, have been suggested.

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“…This led to a series of initiatives, which involved a broad group of public, private and academic stakeholders and addressed issues such as the potential reduction of the Flemish livestock herd or the future of Flemish farming (DP 21, 2008; Nevens et al . ). These initiatives succeeded in opening up the perspectives within which sustainability was to be viewed.…”

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“…At the beginning of the 2000s multiple food crises led to political openings and increased reflection on the functioning of the agricultural sector (De Krom and Dessein 2013;De Cock et al 2016). This led to a series of initiatives, which involved a broad group of public, private and academic stakeholders and addressed issues such as the potential reduction of the Flemish livestock herd or the future of Flemish farming (DP 21, 2008;Nevens et al 2008). These initiatives succeeded in opening up the perspectives within which sustainability was to be viewed.…”

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Discursive Representation within the Institutional Void: The Rise and Fall of a Governance Network on Sustainable Food in Belgium

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Recently, democratic theorists have turned their attention to political representation. This renewed attention is inspired by a questioning of the formalist interpretation of representative government that presumes a strict division between elected political elites and deliberative participation in the public sphere. Several scholars argue that the standard account of representative democracy based on residence‐based and electoral representation does not suffice to explain contemporary political practice. Representation, then, becomes a ‘practice’ in which the object of representation and the grounds on which it is defended, co‐determine ‘who’ and ‘what’ is considered politically legitimate and how ‘interests’ are to be represented. In this paper we explore how discursive interaction on political representation takes place in an ‘institutional void’, i.e. a political setting in which there are no clear rules and norms to which politics is to be conducted. We base our analysis on an interpretative reconstruction of the rise and fall of a sustainability governance process in the Flemish agro‐food domain called the New Food Frontier (NFF). We claim to have found several interacting political conceptions, that operated on both explicit and more tacit levels, which particularly shaped the political interventions within the institutional void of the NFF. Analysis reveals that the dominant/initial conception of the studied political process has strong affinities with Dryzek's ideas on discursive representation. Competing claims on how political representation should work were linked to neo‐corporatism and transition management. We analyze how these competing conceptions play in the organization, articulation and disintegration of the governance network. Secondly, we relate this deliberative ‘outcome’ to the broader political setting in which the sustainability governance trajectory was embedded. In this context, a re‐negotiation of the rules of the game within a new governance setting and the relationship with institutionalized politics proved to be important factors in explaining the discontinuity of the process of discursive representation.

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‘On tomorrow's grounds’, Flemish agriculture in 2030: a case of participatory translation of sustainability principles into a vision for the future

Cited by 20 publications

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A Systematic Review of Urban Sustainability Assessment Literature

A Systematic Review of Urban Sustainability Assessment Literature

Key characteristics for tool choice in indicator-based sustainability assessment at farm level

Discursive Representation within the Institutional Void: The Rise and Fall of a Governance Network on Sustainable Food in Belgium

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