relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3372/ title: Boundary Spanning in Dutch water management and sustainable energy planning creator: Boelens, B. description: The engagement and management of stakeholders have become essential aspects of today’s Western planning practice in the fields of water management and sustainable energy. Tensions are a challenge for the practices of stakeholder management and due to the growing involvement of stakeholders in planning practices, innovative approaches to the management of stakeholders are necessary: omgevingsmanagement. From boundary spanning literature, four types of tensions have been distinguished: performing, organizing, belonging and learning, which serve as the analytical framework for the experiences of local context managers. The results show a tendency of hybrid forms of tension types, focusing on performing tensions, relating to the approaches used by local context managers: the dominant SLCM approach (project-based) and the less frequently applied Two-Legged approach (process-based). Looking at the upcoming EPA, mainly the two-legged approach shows potential to serve t! date: 2020 type: Thesis type: NonPeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3372/1/28-02-2020_FINAL_VERSION_Maste_1.pdf identifier: Boelens, B. (2020) Boundary Spanning in Dutch water management and sustainable energy planning. Master thesis.