relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4029/
title: Understanding climate adaptation policy dynamics: an overview of effectiveness of Dutch policy design regarding water robustness
creator: Dumoulin, Victorine
description: This paper reviews the contextualisation of the Dutch national goal to become water robust in 2050. It aims to research the current Dutch water infrastructure policy design and its effectiveness through secondary document analysis and expert interviews with policy staff members of several governmental organisations. Policy design theory presumes policy to be effective when coherence of policy goals occurs, consistency in policy instruments and congruence between goals and instruments on strategic, tactical and operational level. Next to that, the level of integration is assumed to be of influence on effectiveness of policy design. Main results from the expert interviews are that coherency of policy goals occurs in Dutch water infrastructure and climate change policy design. Nevertheless, there is a slight inconsistency in policy instruments and therefore incongruence, due to a current lack of effective and adequate instruments to complement the goals. It can be concluded that there is an intermediate degree of integration in the policy field, as integration mainly occurs on the operational policy level. The intermediate degree of integration, together with a slight inconsistency and incongruence in the policy design affect the effectiveness of Dutch water infrastructure policy negatively. The effectiveness of this policy design could be improved through further research into policy integration on the strategic level, the political debate, and stressing priority of the goal of becoming water robust in 2050.
date: 2022
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4029/1/Thesis_Dumoulin.pdf
identifier:   Dumoulin, Victorine  (2022) Understanding climate adaptation policy dynamics: an overview of effectiveness of Dutch policy design regarding water robustness.  Master thesis.