REPAiR: REsource Management in Peri-urban AReas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism: D6.1 Governance and Decision-Making Processes in Pilot Cases

Alessandro Arlati, Gilda Berruti, Marcin Dabrowski, Thomas Fraser, Erwin Heukens, Jörg Knieling, C Mezei, Andreas Obersteg, Orsolya Oppe, Maria Federica Palestino, Viktor Varju

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Abstract

REPAiR will develop, test, and implement strategies for improved urban
metabolisms in six peri-urban living labs (›PULLs‹) in the case study areas of
Amsterdam, Ghent, Hamburg, Łódź, Naples, and Pécs. In the frame of REPAiR a
geodesign decision support environment (GDSE) will be developed and first
tested in the PULLs.
In REPAiR’s Work Package 6 “Developing and implementing decision models”
decision making processes will be analysed and decision models for all six case
studies will be developed in order to be implemented in cooperation with
stakeholders in the six case study areas feeding into the GDSE.
The deliverable D6.1 Governance and Decision-Making Processes in Pilot Cases is
focused on the definition and clarification of governance and decision-making
structures in the two pilot cases of the REPAiR project: Amsterdam, the
Netherlands and Naples, Italy. The deliverable is divided into 5 chapters.
After a brief introduction to the work done for the drafting of this document
(Chapter 1), the second Chapter aims to explain the theoretical background on
governance and stakeholder analysis and gives an overview on the development
of EU policies in the field of waste management.
The third chapter and the fourth chapters report a description of the pilot
caseworks Amsterdam and Naples they include an overview on the governance
setting, a detailed timelines of the development of the waste governance and the
decision-making framework. This is followed by descriptions of the stakeholder
identification and interviews conducted in the pilot cases.
The Amsterdam focus area is located in the Western part of Amsterdam
Metropolitan Area. The central idea of the case study is to develop a more circular
economy. This idea is already quite present among many stakeholders and is
formulated as an objective by public stakeholders. Moreover, the public side
encourages the involvement of economic stakeholders into the development of a
circular economy. The private stakeholders express great interest in becoming
(more) involved into the process. However, the interviews also show that the
development of a circular economy and changes in waste management in the
Netherlands can only be reached on a long perspective and that many frame
conditions in the waste management sector are long term bound.
The Naples focus area is covering parts of the City of Naples and 10 municipalities
in the north-east of Naples. After the conclusion of the waste crisis in Naples
public authorities are aiming to improve the waste management on a long term
perspective. The interviews show that there are two main challenges linked to this
process: firstly, the current change of the administrative system in both Italy and
the Campania region; secondly, the necessity to involve local citizens in the
decision-making process to regain the trust of the population.
Chapter 5 illustrates the conclusion of this first step of the project and gives an
outlook on further steps.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherDelft University of Technology
Number of pages62
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Apr 2017

Bibliographical note

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 688920.

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