D.F. Boezeman

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse and compare how three key policy proposals publicly frame the flood safety issue, the knowledge referred to in the framing and how these frames are rhetorically connected or disconnected as statements in a long-term conversation.

TL;DR: The second Dutch Delta Committee as discussed by the authors was the first state committee to advocate non-incremental policy recommendations for adapting to climate change in the Dutch government, and its recommendations shaped institutional reform and policy development in Dutch adaptive governance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify two discourses that are guiding the implementation of REDD+ in Brazil from a discursive perspective: sustainable development discourse and carbon commodification discourse inspired by the idea of neoliberal conservation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare deliberative governance initiatives in the different state traditions of the Netherlands and UK and compare the newly set up governance initiative to an existing policy regime mainstreaming climate adaptation in a similar state tradition, in the Netherlands.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the Khorezm region, Uzbekistan, where several waves of reform created two principal actors -commercial farms (called fermers locally) responsible for state-ordered production and semi-subsistence smallholders (called dekhqans locally) - is demonstrated how in the self-transformation of the actor-network, and thus the shifts in forms and roles of contracts, several network features play a role.