Simulation and dissimulation in governance
Models are utterly useful in policy and administration. Without some sort of model, scenario's, visions, plans are hard to imagine, and...
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Oct 31, 20231 min read
Resource communities book out
Our book on resource communities just came out. The book, written with Monica Gruezmacher, Lochner Marais and Xaquin Perez-Sindin, offers...
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Kvanassche
Apr 3, 20231 min read
The incomplete, the imperfect and electricity
Electricity is an infrastructure of infrastructures - it makes other networks possible, opening up possibilities for many private...
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Kvanassche
Jan 31, 20231 min read
New Nordicities: new stories for winter city strategies
Northern cities are not always seeing and using the opportunities of winter. As a way forward, one can think of small interventions and...
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Kvanassche
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Where blind spots meet: climate risk, conflict and informality
Risk is always constructed: one sees something, expects something, is afraid of something, and all this emerges as real in stories about...
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Kvanassche
Dec 29, 20221 min read
Learning from destruction, learning from reconstruction. Ypres and World War I.
In these dark days, where few lessons are learned from history, and war rages in Ukraine, it might be helpful to look at the utter...
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Kvanassche
Dec 12, 20221 min read
The problem of the puzzle that is not a puzzle
Yes, governance is complex and yes, many forms of knowledge and methods of knowledge creation are involved. Many think that it's a matter...
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Kvanassche
Nov 8, 20221 min read
Mapping with all the senses
Mapping is making something visual based on something visual, in most cases. Maps can lead to plans, policies, strategies which then...
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Kvanassche
Oct 24, 20221 min read
What do we have now that is useful for the future?
Assets are assets, it is assumed, just as a resource is a resource. Of course, on closer inspection, both assertions are far from the...
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Kvanassche
Aug 24, 20221 min read
Landscapes of risk and opportunity in informal settlements
Informal settlements are often part of bigger cities, and those cities tend to have designs on them. In the informal settlements, those...
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Kvanassche
Aug 12, 20221 min read
How to manage environments you are shaped by?
Environmental policy and governance want to take care of, clean up, improve, manage many 'environments' in myriad ways. This effort is...
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Kvanassche
Aug 4, 20221 min read
Learning in co-evolutionary governance
Learning processes in governance are diverse, entangled and both enabled and limited by co-evolutions of various sorts. In this special...
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Kvanassche
Jun 14, 20221 min read
Shock and conflict in social- ecological systems
Shocks and conflicts are not the same thing. Conflicts can cause shocks and shocks can cause conflicts but still, not the same thing. The...
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Kvanassche
May 30, 20221 min read
Transitions are never fast, easy or singular - learning from Tbilisi
Transitions are not simple. For the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, we argue that the multiple transformations which occurred since the 90's...
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Kvanassche
May 3, 20221 min read
Sustainability transitions and the mud they stand in
Transitions to a more sustainable society are, of course, a serious and urgent matter. Few would disagree. What received less attention...
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Kvanassche
Apr 22, 20221 min read
Why Grand Strategy and Great Resets need the local
In difficult times, the lure of Grand Gestures can be hard to resist. Big strategies for big goals, solving big problems at a large scale...
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Kvanassche
Apr 7, 20221 min read
Land use and community strategy: what makes coordination more likely? The Alberta Experience
Land use policy should be embedded in broader strategies of community development. We identify enabling factors for strategy formation...
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Kvanassche
Mar 30, 20221 min read
Social and ecological resilience: where do they meet?
Social and ecological resilience are not the same thing and they do not always overlap. However, they can overlap and reinforce each...
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Kvanassche
Mar 26, 20221 min read
Arctic and Northern communities need local planning and environmental design for resilience
Northern regions are still less visible than others. Drawing on Canadian and Alaskan experiences, we argue that northern communities need...
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Kvanassche
Mar 14, 20221 min read
A business as a thinking thing, with a conscience
A business is an organization, and an organization that is not just a collection of people, of actions, nor a profit making machine...
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