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No full textDuurzame ontwikkeling in het ingenieursonderwijs blijkt geen snelle conflictloze strategie voor verduurzaming. Met als gevolg dat het breder leren denken van de ingenieur in opleiding nog in de kinderschoenen staat.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.Organisation & Governanc
Creating Circular, Efficient and Symbiotic Cities: And How Higher Education Should Contribute to Create the Solutions that are Required
No full textThe ‘Grand Challenges’ of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. This paper will analyse major options for innovating cities, main barriers for these innovations that are rooted in the paradigms of the experts running urban systems and educational reforms that might contribute overcoming these barriers.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.Organisation & Governanc
Circular Urban Systems: Moving Towards Systems Integration
No full textToday, most cities function linearly. One way to improve their environmental performance is to make a transition from linear to Circular Urban Systems (CUS) so that part of the waste streams becomes valorised locally. This does not only require technical but also organisational and institutional changes. Moreover it implies that links have to be created between systems that were previously separate (wastewater treatment and transport for instance). This is called systems integration. This research aims to better understand how systems integration comes about. To be able to reconstruct processes of systems integration, a conceptual framework is developed that combines Actor-Network Theory with insights from structuration theory. A method is also suggested that helps visualising integration processes. These are then applied to the study of three urban areas: EVA-Lanxmeer in Culemborg (NL), Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm (SE) and Lille Métropole (FR). In total ten attempts at systems integration are analysed. Researchers earlier pointed out that systems integration could potentially lock systems in a sub-optimal situation. This study however shows that systems integration can foster innovation and open up new technological pathways. Moreover, this research highlights that systems integration often faces barriers due to the structural incompatibilities of the systems involved. Creating bridging systems can be a way to lift these incompatibilities. It also shows that the presence of an organisation able to provide inter-sectorial coordination is often necessary. Finally, results indicate that maintaining a high level of autonomy is conducive to systems integration.Values and TechnologyTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Technology assessment
No full textDe toekomst is misschien wel belangrijker dan onze geschiedenis. Of je nu student bent, ambtenaar op een ministerie of in een kleine gemeente, een technostarter, innovatiemanager bij een groot bedrijf, de toekomst is een uiterst belangrijk speelveld.Values and TechnologyTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Urban symbiosis: A new paradigm in the shift towards post-carbon cities
No full textThe metabolic flows of cities have to be reduced. Thus far, efforts have been mainly directed to providing the city with renewable resources, diminish resource consumption, and/or reuse the wastes and emissions. The dense fabric of urban infrastructures does not only provide a high level of services. By the proximity of infrastructures symbiosis might be created between them. This urban symbiosis might lead to a considerable reduction of resource consumption and/or carbon- and other emissions of all systems involved. However, developing symbiosis between urban infrastructures implies that the owners/operators of the infrastructures are able to align their interests too. This might be problematic as infrastructure operators developed a culture of autonomy. Moreover, they are nowadays owned by various public and private entities that pursue different agendas. The top down planning model of infrastructures appears to be at the end of its life cycle; citizens, businesses and NGO’s request participation. Early participation, using future methods and workshops might contribute to align actors for promising urban symbiosis options. The paper analyses barriers in developing urban symbiosis and sketches strategies how to deal with them. It uses the example of urban waste water systems to sketch strategies to develop symbiosis between urban infrastructures
Constructive TA of Newly Emerging Technologies Stimulating learning by anticipation through bridging events
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Capitalising Renewable Energy Projects Through the Incentivisation of Private-Sector Investments via the New Market Mechanism (NMM)
No full textThe European Union (EU), United Nations (UN) (as stressed through the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC)), and other nations and international organisations would like to see significantly lower global carbon & greenhouse gas emissions. To reach or surpass Kyoto commitments, considerable (technological) steps must be taken requiring billions of US of needed investment until 2035 for mitigation1. As alternatives to market-based mitigating solutions seem (politically) unfeasible and the current flexibility mechanisms of the UNFCCC (such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) & Program of Activities (PoA)) have not managed to notably slow the increase in the level of greenhouse gases in the environment, a scaled up market-based mechanism seems necessary. The idea of such a new market-based mechanism as a sectoral instead of project-based approach was introduced during the Conference of the Parties (CoP) at Durban in 2011 and is currently being debated by policymakers on an international level, with pilot & case studies gradually taking off to test this new mechanism.Sustainable Energy TechnologyTechnology Dynamics & Sustainable DevelopmentApplied Science
Management of Innovation in a Flat World: Growing Complexity, Globalisation and Citizen Participation
No full textInnovation is not what it was in the 20th century; the classic century of R & D based innovation. The nature of innovation is changing, only in part because different technologies dominate innovation. This paper identifies three main societal trends that are of major importance for strategic management of innovation in industry and for government industrial- and technology policies. These trends are:
- Growing complexity
- Globalisation
- Citizen participation
As a result, innovation strategy and technology policies cannot be determined by ad hoc technology push and market pull factors popping up. Strategic planning, not just of products and technologies but also of sites and alliances becomes increasingly important. Transparency and stakeholder dialogue require new competencies of the technology manager
Future options for sewage and drainage systems three scenarios for transitions and continuity
No full textThe challenge of sustainable development requires cities to aim for drastic improvements in the systems that support its vital functions. Innovating these systems can be extremely hard, and might take lots of time. A transparent and democratic strategy is important to guarantee support for change. Such a process should aim at developing consensus regarding a basic vision to guide the process of systems change. This paper sketches future options for the development of sanitation- and urban drainage systems in industrialized economies. It will provide an analysis of relevant trends for sewage system innovation. In history, sewage systems have emerged from urban sewage and precipitation removal systems, to urban sewage and precipitation removal and cleaning systems. The challenge for the future is recovering energy and resources from sewage systems while maintaining/improving its sanitary service and lowering its emissions.Organisation & Governanc
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