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The Urban Harvest Approach in North-West Europe

Duim, Sjoerd (2021) The Urban Harvest Approach in North-West Europe. Bachelor thesis.

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Abstract

The Urban Harvest Approach (UHA) is an approach that offers a method to establish circularity within cities. Research about the UHA is limited, while the potency is high. This research aims to find out to what extent cities use the UHA in their policies and how the implementation of the policies worked out. This is done by a policy analysis of a policy document (to discover what the policies comprise) and a monitoring document (to find out how the implementation of the policies worked out) of three European cities: Amsterdam, Brussels and London. The presence of the UHA indicators has been established in every document and it appeared that the cities actually used the UHA in their policies, but the scores on the monitoring document lay apart. Brussels, the only city that scored high on both documents, had a unilateral view on circularity and focused on administrative aspects, whereas London and Amsterdam had a more multilateral view. This research has shown that cities in Europe are creating good policies and plans to become circular, but that there is certainly still a step to be taken for a number of cities to achieve the optimal form of circularity, especially in the implementation of the policies. The way in which Brussels is tackling the road to circularity, using the UHA and the right focus, can be seen as an example for other cities that include too many other aspects in their policies.

Item Type: Thesis (Bachelor)
Degree programme: Spatial Planning and Design
Supervisor: Woltjer, J.
Date Deposited: 20 Jul 2021 10:28
Last Modified: 20 Jul 2021 10:28
URI: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3587

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