Laman, Ruben (2021) From Plan to Reality(?): The Influence of Informal Soft Planning on Climate Adaptation. Learning lessons from past informal soft plans through plan-evaluation to enhance the relevancy of future plans. Master thesis.
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Abstract
The climate crisis pressurizes Dutch living environments and livelihoods. Because climate mitigation approaches have proven insufficient and more severe climate change is imminent, more climate-adaptive measures and investments must be implemented. Spatial planning can play a critical role herein because of the strong spatial component of climate adaptation. Within the spatial planning spectrum, different approaches can be distinguished, in which informal soft planning and formal hard planning are opposites. Formal hard plans such as the Delta-programmes result in direct outcomes in the outside world and hereby contribute to climate adaptation. Informal soft plans on the other hand cannot do so and are dependant on their proposals being translated, transferred or implemented into formal hard plans. To achieve this, informal soft plans must be used and they, therefore, have to land in the policy- and decision-making discourse. In contributing to climate adaptation, informal soft plans thus attempt to influence formal hard plans. Through the evaluation of informal soft plans for the Northern Netherlands region, this research has determined the influence of past informal soft plans on climate adaptation. With the derived insights, the relevancy of future plans can be enhanced. Informal soft plans have been analysed and discussed in in-depth interviews with governmental policy- and decision-makers from the Northern Netherlands. The findings show that plans have been influential, but their relevancy can be enhanced by proposing concrete regional measures, involving authorities, aiming to be useful, making use of atelier sessions, and capitalizing on outspoken ambitions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Kempenaar, J. |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2021 12:22 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2021 12:22 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3536 |
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