Mendel Giezen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the reduction of complexity and its effects on the planning of mega infrastructure projects and show the conditions under which reducing complexity is beneficial or detrimental in a case study with interviews.

TL;DR: In this article, three theoretical reflections are introduced to explore possible solutions: (1) the change of institutions to address the problem of excessively simple structures for making decisions on complex projects; (2) the shaping of a learning environment in order to deal with uncertainty and emergent properties.

TL;DR: In this article, three theoretical reflections are introduced to explore possible solutions: (1) the change of institutions to address the problem of excessively simple structures for making decisions on complex projects; (2) the shaping of a learning environment in order to deal with uncertainty and emergent properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that transition management also harbours the risk of disempowerment, i.e. creating/exacerbating a sense of powerlessness and thus decreasing the ability of actors to take up roles in sustainability transitions, and apply the framework to analyse disempowered actors in transition management processes in four North-Western European 'welfare cities': Aberdeen (UK), Ghent (BEL), Ludwigsburg (GER), and Montreuil (FR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce two concepts: adaptive capacity and strategic capacity, and apply them to three large infrastructure projects in the Netherlands in order to analyze the potential of these projects to deal with change and inertia.