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Voices on Sustainable Ports in Africa: Stories from Tema Port, Ghana
No full textPorts provide an essential link to the world market, enabling countries to trade their goods and strengthen their economies. However, the global and regional benefits of port developments do not always translate into benefits to local stakeholders. There is often a mismatch between the positive global and regional effects of port development and the impacts that can be experienced locally. Port development requires a paradigm shift from a conventional economic and engineering oriented approach to a stakeholder-inclusive and environmentally, economically and socially integrated approach to become sustainable. The research project ‘Integrated and Sustainable Port Development in Ghana within an African Context’ aims to learn how to develop integrated and sustainable African ports that meet economic, social and environmental needs now and in the future. The Port of Tema, which has evolved from a small fishing village to Ghana’s leading industrial centre and seaport in the last decades, forms the focal case study of the research. A specific objective of the governance component of the project is to find out what local stakeholders value as a sustainable port. This book is an outcome of this endeavor, seeking to present and share the voices of a range of stakeholders on Tema and its port.Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging EngineeringPolicy AnalysisCoastal Engineerin
Integral Design of Multifunctional Flood Defenses: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Examples
No full textMultifunctional flood defenses protect areas against flooding, butserve other functions as well. Although these types of defensescan be seen almost everywhere, they pose special technical andgovernance challenges.This book is about a unique interdisciplinary research programdeveloped to tackle some of the issues designers and managersof multifunctional flood defenses are confronted with, and also toprovide some practical solutions. The book discusses a variety ofcase studies, but also considers the difficulties involved in settingup an interdisciplinary study with PhD students from differentfields. Interviews with some of the end users and reflections byresearchers involved in the field make this book a ‘must read’ foreverybody who is involved in protecting societies against flooding.Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging EngineeringHydraulic Structures and Flood Ris
Stakeholder value inclusive design: Using the contested issues game structuring approach (CIGAS) in Texas
No full textIf we want to incorporate multiple functions in a flood defense structure, system or strategy, it is imperative that we consider the different and often diverging interests and values of involved stakeholders. Since these interests and values are not always self-evident, stakeholder consultations are a vital part of an integrated and sustainable design trajectory for a multifunctional flood defense (MFFD). However, consulting stakeholders can be done in many ways; this can range from ‘informing’ stakeholders to actually facilitating them to express their local knowledge and values, and deriving design strategies based on this input. In the Texas case, MFFD researchers had the opportunity to continue developing a new tool: the Contested Issues GAme Structuring approach (CIGAS).Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineerin
Working towards academic knowledge integration: Facilitating integral design of multifunctional flood defenses
No full textThe MFFD research program aims for integral design of multifunctional flood defenses. A team of academic researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds would integrate their knowledge to reach this goal. The aim of the current research project was to design and organize an interactive trajectory by means of Action Research to facilitate the collaboration process within the research program. This was easier said than done. In the very first team meeting, the researchers discussed ‘the definition of a MFFD’, and it became clear that many concepts featuring in the design of a MFFD meant different things to different participants. The challenge became clear: how could we integrate these different perspectives towards an integral design? Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineerin
Waterveiligheid: Managen van kwetsbaarheid voorbij de mythe van droge voeten. De Nederlandse omgang met overstromingsdreiging in sociaal-cultureel perspectief.
No full textIn dit proefschrift leggen Heems en Kothuis uit waarom overstromings- dreiging bij de meeste Nederlanders ‘niet leeft’. Zij beantwoorden vanuit sociaal cultureel perspectief de vraag hoe Nederlanders aan het begin van de 21e eeuw betekenis geven aan de omgang met waterveiligheid. Na de (bijna) overstromingen van de rivieren in 1993 en 1995 zette de Nederlandse overheid in op een andere omgang met water. Overheden verwachtten dat publieke communicatie over waterveiligheid en publieksparticipatie bij waterveiligheidsprojecten zouden leiden tot meer waterbewustzijn en meer risicobewust gedrag in de samenleving. Van deze strategieën verwachtten zij geen ongewenste neveneffecten. Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat deze verwachting niet alleen onjuist is, maar dat deze strategieën zelfs tot verontwaardiging, apathie en verlies van publiek vertrouwen leiden. Heems en Kothuis betogen dat dit mede komt omdat overheden en burgers verschillende historisch verankerde veronderstellingen over de omgang met waterveiligheid hebben en deze niet van elkaar (h)erken- nen. Daarbij heeft de omgang met overstromingsdreiging na de Ramp van 1953 geleid tot een veiligheidsmythe van droge voeten. Deze houdt kort gezegd in dat, hoewel Nederlanders rationeel weten dat honderd procent garantie niet bestaat, toch de overtuiging bestaat dat met de komst van de Deltawerken droge voeten gegarandeerd zijn. De mythe kenmerkt zich door blind vertrouwen in overheden en experts en ontbreken van angst voor water. Om een andere omgang met waterveiligheid maatschappelijk te verankeren is het noodzakelijk die mythe te deconstrueren. Dat kan met behulp van kritisch vertrouwen, een cognitieve angst voor water als progressieve kracht en een discours van zorg. Vanuit die houding kan een maatschappelijk debat worden gevoerd dat niet is gebaseerd op risicobeheersing maar op acceptatie van kwetsbaarheid. Pas dan is echt anders omgaan met water mogelijk: maatschappijbrede zorg voor waterveiligheid waarin burgers een eigen verantwoordelijkheid nemen. Promotoren: Wiebe E. Bijker - Universiteit van Maastricht Marcel J.F. Stive - Technische Universiteit Delft Maarten A. Hajer - Universiteit van AmsterdamBeleidsanalyseTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Measuring the educational effects of problem- and place-based research education programs: The student survey
No full textThis chapter evaluated the educational effects of an international integrative research education program by analyzing the survey of participating students of the NSF PIRE CFRR Program. The survey was conducted from 2016 to 2019, before and after the 2-week research field trip in the Netherlands. The results show that a problem- and place-based research education program offering immersive and transformative training could significantly improve students’ knowledge and help students to approach a problem with a more integrative and holistic perspective in only two weeks if the program is properly designed.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Hydraulic Structures and Flood Ris
Struggles and joy of multidisciplinary collaboration: program cases in the MFFD research program
No full textDesigning multifunctional flood defenses requires the input of knowledge from multiple disciplines, as has been frequently mentioned in this book. Researchers from multiple disciplines were employed in the MFFD-program, and they almost universally expressed a keen desire to collaborate. Different ways of collaboration were tried, explored, worked out; some were discarded as less useful, while others developed into useful products (see for example the 'MFFD-decisions' LEGO©-game and the 'Wind-turbines-on-dike' Electro©-game; p. 133).Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineerin
Some tools for knowledge integration in a multidisciplinary research program
No full textVarious interesting tools were used and/or developed to stimulate knowledge integration in the Multifunctional Flood Defenses program. This chapter will present a diverse collection of these tools, hopefully stimulating others to consider using some of them in future.Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineerin
A five-year research program in one book: Reading guide
No full textDr. Baukje Kothuis was a Postdoc in the STW-MFFD program at the Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, TU Delft in the project ‘Integrated design’. Currently she works at the Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences as a researcher in the NWO Program ‘Integral & sustainable design of ports in Africa’ and for TU Delft and Texas-based universities as an independent consultant and co-PI in the NSF-PIRE research and education exchange program 'Coastal Flood Risk Reduction' to develop partnerships for international research and education.Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineerin
A specific transdisciplinary co-design workshop model to teach a multiple perspective problem approach for integrated nature-based design
No full textInter- and transdisciplinary place-based learning by international groups of students formed an integral component of the Partnerships for International Research and Education Coastal Flood Risk Reduction (PIRE-CFRR) program “Integrated, multiscale approaches for understanding how to reduce vulnerability to damaging events.” The program aimed to create “authentic learning environments” that supported and benefitted from ongoing research on flood risk management. Accordingly, an eight-step transdisciplinary, collaborative design workshop method was developed and applied to two problem situations: (i) the erosion hotspot of the southwest coast of Texel island and (ii) the future noncompliance of the old Hondsbossche Pettermer Sea Dike with Dutch flood defense standards. The effects of the workshop method were evaluated in terms of the process of co-design, the substantive outcomes, and the learning outcomes of individual students. Findings indicate that the co-design process created an open and authentic environment in which students from different disciplinary backgrounds could experience undertaking integrated, nature-based design. Wide-ranging nature-based solutions were produced with diverse biogeophysical and social features in all designs. This indicated that the students were equipped to work collaboratively to produce novel designs that incorporated multiple perspectives. Survey results affirmed the success of the transdisciplinary co-design workshop method as a means of teaching integrated, nature-based infrastructure design.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Policy AnalysisHydraulic EngineeringHydraulic Structures and Flood Ris
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