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Failing Forward

The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation

Robert Fletcher | March 2023, University of California Press

Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed to “fail forward” over time despite its ineffectiveness.

“Why so many planning efforts, in international development and elsewhere, have so often “failed” in their intended aims has long been a central concern for a wide range of critical analysts, who have offered various explanations to account for this reality.”

At its core, neoliberal conservation promotes market-based instruments intended to reconcile environmental preservation and economic development. Preservation is generally harnessed as the source of conservation finance and capital accumulation.

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Gemeentesecretaris in de toekomst

Strategisch management bij gemeenten in 2017: De toegevoegde waarde van gemeentesecretarissen nu en in de toekomst 

Daphne Hubert, Anoep Singh, Peter Teunisse | juni 2017, PwC Nederland

Rol van lokale overheid verandert

Onze maatschappij verandert in hoog tempo. Verstedelijking, vergrijzing, digitalisering en macro-economische ontwikkelingen bieden zowel kansen als uitdagingen voor de publieke sector. De impact van deze globale trends en de beleidsvoering op (inter)nationaal en regionaal niveau is het meest zicht- en tastbaar op het lokale niveau door de directe interactie die daar plaatsvindt met burgers en het bedrijfsleven.

Daarnaast zijn er ontwikkelingen in het publieke domein zelf, zoals de decentralisatie in het sociale domein en de zorg en de nog in te voeren nieuwe omgevingswet, die ieder op zich hun specifieke impact hebben op gemeenten.

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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

United Nations | 21 March 1992

Today, the framework has near-universal membership. The 198 countries ratified the Convention are called Parties to the Convention. The ultimate aim of the UNFCCC is to prevent “dangerous” human interference with the climate system.

The Convention recognized that there was a problem. The UNFCCC borrowed an essential line from one of the most successful multilateral environmental treaties in history (the Montreal Protocol, in 1987): it bound member states to act in the interests of human safety despite scientific uncertainty.

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The Wizard and the Prophet

Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World

Charles C. Mann | 2019, Pan Macmillan

In forty years, the Earth’s population will reach ten billion. Can our world support so many people? What kind of world will it be? In this unique, original and essential book, Charles C. Mann illuminates the four grand challenges we face—food, water, energy, and climate change—through an exploration of the crucial work and wide-ranging influence of two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt.

Vogt (the Prophet) was the intellectual forefather of the environmental movement. He believed that if we use more than the planet has to give, our prosperity will bring us to ruin. Borlaug’s research in the 1950s led to the development of modern high-yield crops that have saved millions from starvation. The Wizard of Mann’s title he believed that science would continue to rise to the challenges we face.

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Active Hope

How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power

Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone | 2021 (revised from 2012 original)

Our challenges can be complex, even when we think about them. Climate change, oil depletion, economic upheaval, and mass extinction create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions.



Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science.



This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.


Bibliography


Macy, J. and Johnstone, C. (2021, revised from 2012) Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power.  Novato, California, US: New World Library

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Guardians of Public Value

How Public Organizations Become and Remain Institutions

Arjen Boin, Lauren Fahy and Paul ’t Hart | 2020

This open-access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public has come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this volume examines how some organisations rise to prominence and remain in high public esteem through changing and challenging times.

The core focus of the book can be summarised as follows:

    • Narrates the histories of a dozen high-profile public organisations from across the world.
    • Analyses how, over time, these organisations have become highly valued ‘institutions’.
    • Suggests leadership lessons for institution builders.
    • Offers an array of teachable case studies about successful organisations fit for classroom use.

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Water in Actie

Vewin en UvW | maart 2024

Waterschappen en drinkwaterbedrijven spelen een cruciale rol in ons waterrijke land. Dagelijks werken waterschappen aan sterke dijken en schoon water, terwijl drinkwaterbedrijven continu ruim 8 miljoen huishoudens en bedrijven van water voorzien. Maar de uitdagingen worden steeds groter. De organisaties lopen tegen grenzen aan. Hun koepelorganisaties, Vereniging van Waterbedrijven in Nederland (Vewin) en Unie van Waterschappen (UvW), roepen nieuw kabinet op om in actie te komen.

Het ‘Water in actie’-programma is echter niet alleen een wensenlijst, maar ook een uitgestoken hand naar een nieuw kabinet. Zo zien waterschappen en drinkwaterbedrijven veel mogelijkheden om samen te werken met een nieuw kabinet. Met waterbeheermaatregelen kan er namelijk ook versneld natuurherstel worden gerealiseerd.

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