Stormwater management in transition: The influence of technical and governance attributes in the case of Brussels, Belgium

Dobre, Catalina; Kruijf, Joanne Vinke‐de; Moretto, Luisa; Ranzato, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.015

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“…A study by Dobre et al (2018) argued that verticality or the hierarchical attributes of governance can be analysed based on the centralised or decentralised features of the governance arrangement. The centralised process shows the hierarchical attributes of a governance structure, and the decentralised process shows the flattened attributes of a governance structure.…”

Section: Vertical and Horizontal Integrationmentioning

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Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration

Ganeshu,

Fernando,

Therrien

et al. 2024

Administrative Sciences

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Although inter-organisational collaborative structures play a vital role in determining the level of collaboration among organisations, the identification of required organisational structural types and their features to facilitate fruitful collaboration is not satisfactorily discussed in existing studies. In addition, the connection between inter-organisational structural types and features, and their influence on collaboration, is not well understood. This systematised literature review study explores the available inter-organisational collaborative structural types, features, and their suitability to facilitate collaboration among organisations. Our findings underscore the importance of adopting a hybrid form of hierarchy and network arrangements to facilitate effective collaboration among organisations. Furthermore, this study developed a framework that presents how collaboration depends on inter-organisational structures and their features in facilitating vertical and horizontal integration. This framework can be used to identify the inter-organisational collaboration structures that are required to move towards a desired inter-organisational collaboration level.

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Section: Vertical and Horizontal Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration

Ganeshu,

Fernando,

Therrien

et al. 2024

Administrative Sciences

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“…The Ilot d'eau design initiative is part of the CQD Abbaye, located in the lower elevation area of Forest-Vorst, a municipality within the region, which has a high risk of pluvial flooding. In this area, residents, together with non-profit organisations and neighbourhood committees, have long been involved in environmental issues due to their flood-related difficulties (Dobre et al 2018).…”

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Citizen involvement in co-producing decentralised stormwater systems in Brussels

2019

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Co-production initiatives rely on citizens' contributions to create better public services. Although the existing literature has frequently focused on citizens' motivations to join co-production activities, few studies have investigated how and why citizen involvement might change during the co-production process. The article offers new insights about engagement in co-production by analysing a design initiative in Brussels, Ilot d'eau. Throughout the initiative, the four citizen collectives elaborated a specific decentralised stormwater system project that would be shared among the respective households. Even though each collective followed the same methodology, only two of the four projects reached the coconstruction phase. The paper reveals how changes in citizen involvement in the process are impacted by the methodologies of interaction used and the citizens' previous experiences in co-production. Furthermore, by examining the premature withdrawal of two of the four collectives from the initiative, the study shows why some of the changes occurred. In particular, the ambivalent role played by the local municipality during the development of the initiative together with the mediation of the organising team emerge as key determinants influencing citizen involvement.

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“…The transition-oriented conceptual foundations of LTS have led to two noteworthy streams of knowledge development. Firstly, its direct applications for the understanding of changes in large technical system-based industries, such as energy networks (Bolton and Foxon, 2015;Hasenöhrl, 2018;Markard and Truffer, 2006;Palm and Gustafsson, 2018), water infrastructure (Dobre et al, 2018), and telecommunication, food, and transportation (Davies, 1996;Vleuten, 2018), to name just a few. Secondly, its contribution to the evolving field of enquiry on socio-technical sustainability transitions (Farla et al, 2012), and its specific analytical approaches such as the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) (Geels, 2002;Rip and Kemp, 1998), and the Triple Embeddedness Framework (TEF) (Geels, 2014), which have been used to design policy for low-carbon development across technologies, firms, industries, and regions.…”

Section: Large Technical Systems Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology, business model, and market design adaptation toward smart electricity distribution: Insights for policy making

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The transformation of the electricity sector towards a sustainable energy supply and use has a disruptive potential for infrastructure and utilities. The spread of digital technologies, renewable energy, and prosumers requires a swift and well-guided adaptation of the electricity distribution industry to smart grid technologies and related business models. This paper, based on the large technical systems (LTS) conceptual framework, investigates the complex evolution and company and market design adaptation need s. Challenges and opportunities are analyzed through nine multi-stakeholder workshops, held in two EU member states (Germany and Portugal) in 2016-2017, engaging distribution system operators, researchers, academics, and integrated utility companies. The results indicate considerable uncertainty for DSOs regarding the value of large-scale smart meter rollouts. Also, a corporate culture with resistance to change is observed, challenging the integration of novel technologies and processes. Traditional regulation is seen as a barrier to smart grid investments, and is associated with job losses and knowledge destruction. Policy-makers can benefit from these insights on the dynamics of DSOs, which can contribute to public policy design and market reform which traditionally has often been mainly concerned about operational efficiency in a steady-state, stable economy.

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Stormwater management in transition: The influence of technical and governance attributes in the case of Brussels, Belgium

Cited by 14 publications

References 46 publications

Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration

Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration

Citizen involvement in co-producing decentralised stormwater systems in Brussels

Technology, business model, and market design adaptation toward smart electricity distribution: Insights for policy making

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