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Prof. Dr. Jurian Edelenbos
Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Original article
Published: 12 February 2021 in Public Administration
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Increasingly, Western local governments are dealing with community‐based initiatives (CBIs) of citizens providing public services. Municipalities possess critical resources CBIs generally lack, including subsidies, buildings, and exposure. There is still little knowledge on CBIs' factors for government support. Therefore, this study adopts an organizational perspective distinguishing among institutionalization (intra‐organizational, e.g. organizational size, and democratic legitimacy) and interaction (inter‐organizational, e.g. boundary spanning leadership [BSL]) factors for the support CBIs obtain from local government. Analyzing large N data (N = 2331) from CBIs in six countries by using structural equation modelling, we found that interaction factors are related to more government support, whereas institutionalization factors are less significant. More specifically, we found stronger relationships for BSL and linking social capital than for the factors related to the formalization and development of organizational infrastructure, including the much‐discussed democratic legitimacy of CBIs, suggesting a limited interest of governments in this topic as a factor for support. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Malika Igalla; Jurian Edelenbos; Ingmar van Meerkerk. Institutionalization or interaction: Which organizational factors help community‐based initiatives acquire government support? Public Administration 2021, 1 .

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Malika Igalla, Jurian Edelenbos, Ingmar van Meerkerk. Institutionalization or interaction: Which organizational factors help community‐based initiatives acquire government support? Public Administration. 2021; ():1.

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Malika Igalla; Jurian Edelenbos; Ingmar van Meerkerk. 2021. "Institutionalization or interaction: Which organizational factors help community‐based initiatives acquire government support?" Public Administration , no. : 1.

Special issue article
Published: 12 January 2021 in The European Journal of Development Research
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All over the world, urban communities take initiative in order to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study conducts a literature review and an international exploratory study in order to identify pathways within which Community Resilience Initiatives (CRIs) emerge within different governance contexts. The CRIs target vulnerable communities, which are hard to reach. Our study results identify four pathways: (1) informal bottom-up community initiatives; (2) formal community initiatives emerging out of existing community-based initiatives; (3) initiatives of external actors, often NGOs, universities or governments and (4) networks of organisations whom together initiate action in response to COVID-19. The pathways lead to different types, scales and complexities of the initiatives. However, all face similar barriers related to funding, weak networks and limited cooperation. CRIs often perceive the government agencies to be unreliable and unsupportive which in turn also hampers CRI’s emergence.

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Jan Fransen; Daniela Ochoa Peralta; Francesca Vanelli; Jurian Edelenbos; Beatriz Calzada Olvera. The emergence of Urban Community Resilience Initiatives During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Exploratory Study. The European Journal of Development Research 2021, 1 -23.

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Jan Fransen, Daniela Ochoa Peralta, Francesca Vanelli, Jurian Edelenbos, Beatriz Calzada Olvera. The emergence of Urban Community Resilience Initiatives During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Exploratory Study. The European Journal of Development Research. 2021; ():1-23.

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Jan Fransen; Daniela Ochoa Peralta; Francesca Vanelli; Jurian Edelenbos; Beatriz Calzada Olvera. 2021. "The emergence of Urban Community Resilience Initiatives During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Exploratory Study." The European Journal of Development Research , no. : 1-23.

Sociology
Published: 01 January 2021 in Cogent Social Sciences
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This systematic review discusses the shifted paradigm in the place-making concept, from being focused on physical changes in the environment (product-oriented) created by urban planners, towards place-making as an iterative process that involves various actors other than the planning professionals. Despite this conceptual re-orientation that was emerged in the 1960s, important discussions, such as factors that support or obstruct the process of place-making are often mentioned incidentally in publications without being systematically analysed across cases. Therefore, this paper aims to bring a better overview of the concept of place-making as a process by combining theoretical and empirical research in the planning context. To achieve this aim, a systematic literature review of 61 articles published between 1960 and 2016 has been used. This research demonstrates a variety of approaches, influential factors, and outcomes of place-making. It points out the importance to take into considerations the interplays among the roles of actors, along with physical-spatial elements of places. These factors should be acknowledged in combination with the others, rather than being treated as unidimensional. Such circumstances not only lead to viable place-making but also bring positive social impacts to local communities, especially on gaining local empowerment, enhancing social ties, reinforcing place identity, and increasing quality of life.

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Poeti Nazura Gulfira Akbar; Jurian Edelenbos. Positioning place-making as a social process: A systematic literature review. Cogent Social Sciences 2021, 7, 1 .

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Poeti Nazura Gulfira Akbar, Jurian Edelenbos. Positioning place-making as a social process: A systematic literature review. Cogent Social Sciences. 2021; 7 (1):1.

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Poeti Nazura Gulfira Akbar; Jurian Edelenbos. 2021. "Positioning place-making as a social process: A systematic literature review." Cogent Social Sciences 7, no. 1: 1.

Research article
Published: 01 December 2020 in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
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A city is a place where many initiatives, people, and social and urban challenges meet. This article brings together the cumulative knowledge of eight researchers who have been studying community-based initiatives (CBIs) via case studies in various countries. In some countries, citizens were not satisfied with government-provided services, or services were lacking. Governments in other countries faced budget cuts to their public services, which led to a strong call for citizens to take matters into their own hands. There is a lack of research investigating the performance of CBIs and explaining their success and failure. The authors systematically analyze their recent case studies through qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and try to explain under which conditions CBIs lead to high performance. One of the key findings of this analysis is that proximate conditions related to the CBIs—strong organizational capacity, democratic structure, and leadership—are important for high performance. However, these conditions are not sufficient on their own. Community-based initiatives need a conductive environment to achieve high performance; in our cases, government support and a heterogeneous community or a supportive government attitude was key.

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Jurian Edelenbos; Astrid Molenveld; Katerina Mojanchevska; Elena Ensenado; Monserrat Budding-Polo Ballinas; Audrey Esteban; Saskia Ruijsink; Malika Igalla; Alexandra Tsatsou. Community-based initiatives in the urban realm what conditions their performance? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2020, 64, 1689 -1712.

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Jurian Edelenbos, Astrid Molenveld, Katerina Mojanchevska, Elena Ensenado, Monserrat Budding-Polo Ballinas, Audrey Esteban, Saskia Ruijsink, Malika Igalla, Alexandra Tsatsou. Community-based initiatives in the urban realm what conditions their performance? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 2020; 64 (9):1689-1712.

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Jurian Edelenbos; Astrid Molenveld; Katerina Mojanchevska; Elena Ensenado; Monserrat Budding-Polo Ballinas; Audrey Esteban; Saskia Ruijsink; Malika Igalla; Alexandra Tsatsou. 2020. "Community-based initiatives in the urban realm what conditions their performance?" Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 64, no. 9: 1689-1712.

Journal article
Published: 17 June 2020 in Social Sciences
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This study aims to assess the social outcome of place-making in urban informal settlements. This research is guided by the following research question: What are the relationships between regular and temporal place-making towards local capacity, social connection, local identity, and quality of life? Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire in two informal settlements in Indonesia. Several indicators were combined from existing literature in order to assess the influence of the place-making on the residents’ perceptions of the four social outcomes. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis were presented while increasing our comprehension of how specific dimensions of place-making, such as nature of activities and their frequency, affect social aspects of the community where the practice took place. The originality of this paper lies in the context of the research and the methodology where it fills the existing gaps in both areas.

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Poeti Akbar; Jurian Edelenbos. Social Impacts of Place-Making in Urban Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Indonesian Kampungs. Social Sciences 2020, 9, 104 .

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Poeti Akbar, Jurian Edelenbos. Social Impacts of Place-Making in Urban Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Indonesian Kampungs. Social Sciences. 2020; 9 (6):104.

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Poeti Akbar; Jurian Edelenbos. 2020. "Social Impacts of Place-Making in Urban Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Indonesian Kampungs." Social Sciences 9, no. 6: 104.

Articles
Published: 01 April 2020 in Policy and Society
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Research finds that productive interfaces between collaborative and bureaucratic forms of governance hinges on the extent to which public managers act as competent boundary spanners who process information, accommodate communication and align and coordinate behavior, and it seems likely that politicians have an equally important role to play in aligning processes and arenas of collaborative governance with representative democracy. The empirical forms that political boundary making takes are examined in a study of 28 cases of local, regional or national level policy-making in nine Western countries. This study indicates that there is considerable variation in the way politicians perform political boundary spanning particularly with respect to their degree of engagement in collaborative policymaking arenas and the focus of their boundary-spanning activities. Furthermore, the study shows that collaborative governance tends to go best in tandem with representative democracy in those cases where politicians perform both hands off and hands on boundary-spanning activities.

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Eva Sørensen; Carolyn M. Hendriks; Nils Hertting Hertting; Jurian Edelenbos Edelenbos. Political boundary spanning: politicians at the interface between collaborative governance and representative democracy. Policy and Society 2020, 39, 530 -569.

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Eva Sørensen, Carolyn M. Hendriks, Nils Hertting Hertting, Jurian Edelenbos Edelenbos. Political boundary spanning: politicians at the interface between collaborative governance and representative democracy. Policy and Society. 2020; 39 (4):530-569.

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Eva Sørensen; Carolyn M. Hendriks; Nils Hertting Hertting; Jurian Edelenbos Edelenbos. 2020. "Political boundary spanning: politicians at the interface between collaborative governance and representative democracy." Policy and Society 39, no. 4: 530-569.

Articles
Published: 20 March 2020 in Area Development and Policy
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The ways in which integrated water resources management (IWRM) is implemented in a volcanic river basin (the Opak Sub-Basin) on the flanks of Mt Merapi volcano in Indonesia is examined. Data deriving from semi-ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews are analysed through a multilevel governance lens that considers three pillars of management – conservation, utilization and hazard control – and three levels of governance – national, regional and municipal. The research shows that the regional level is the priority playing field; that the degree of integration differs between levels of government; and that actors called ‘whisperers’ support higher integration levels, have the greatest ability to form bridges between communities and government.

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Vicky Ariyanti; Jurian Edelenbos; Peter Scholten. Implementing the integrated water resources management approach in a volcanic river basin: a case study of Opak Sub-Basin, Indonesia. Area Development and Policy 2020, 5, 412 -427.

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Vicky Ariyanti, Jurian Edelenbos, Peter Scholten. Implementing the integrated water resources management approach in a volcanic river basin: a case study of Opak Sub-Basin, Indonesia. Area Development and Policy. 2020; 5 (4):412-427.

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Vicky Ariyanti; Jurian Edelenbos; Peter Scholten. 2020. "Implementing the integrated water resources management approach in a volcanic river basin: a case study of Opak Sub-Basin, Indonesia." Area Development and Policy 5, no. 4: 412-427.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2020 in Journal of Urban Management
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Cities in transition need strategies to do more and better using less or limited resources, i.e., to be frugal in approach, especially when implementing expensive infrastructures. Addis-Ababa city in recent years acquired the light-rail transport (LRT) from China, which entails different multi-actors interacting to achieve resource-efficient LRT in terms of cost, technical knowledge and time. Addis-Ababa re-organized their organizational structure to interact with multi-actors, in providing affordable LRT, measurable technological transfer and learning routine via structured absorptive capacity, delivering an environmentally sound electrified light-rail, as a zero-carbon emission transport system. Using mixed research methods, consisting of light-rail expert's semi-structured interviews and passenger's survey, this article aims to know how the multi-actor interaction processes and absorptive capacity structure have delivered frugality in urban rail transport. Thus, delivering the LRT, despite inadequate country-owned financial resources, less technological and knowledge capability of LRT, within a limited period of three years. Results show that frugality strongly depends on the structure of absorptive capacity and process of multi-actor interactions. In addition, tacit knowledge developed by Addis-Ababa, as an existing knowledge base is vital in harnessing the explicit knowledge provided by China. This frugally delivered light-rail consequently brought changes to the low-income passengers, including some part of the bottom of pyramid (PoB) category, and a fraction of modal shift from other motorized transport modes to the light-rail public transport.

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Taslim Alade; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. Frugality in multi-actor interactions and absorptive capacity of Addis-Ababa light-rail transport. Journal of Urban Management 2020, 9, 67 -76.

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Taslim Alade, Jurian Edelenbos, Alberto Gianoli. Frugality in multi-actor interactions and absorptive capacity of Addis-Ababa light-rail transport. Journal of Urban Management. 2020; 9 (1):67-76.

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Taslim Alade; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. 2020. "Frugality in multi-actor interactions and absorptive capacity of Addis-Ababa light-rail transport." Journal of Urban Management 9, no. 1: 67-76.

Journal article
Published: 10 February 2020 in Sustainability
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This article primarily aims to understand how the Light-Rail Transport (LRT) pricing and infrastructural innovations from a Chinese context have been adopted to the Addis-Ababa city context. Secondly, it wishes to show what were the economic, social, and environmental effects of these adapted innovations on passenger service delivery and Multi-National Corporations (MNCs), and what effects the resident’s proximity had on commercial activities along the LRT route. Thirdly, it identified re-adaptations to a more sustainable LRT with respect to the passengers, MNCs, and residents. This study has revealed economic, social, and environmental effects that may influence innovation adoption, such as the following: reduction in carbon emissions; fare evasion; inconvenience; affordability; less revenue; less proximity to commercial activities; and an increase in travel distances for pedestrians. A mixed method for a single case study was used, including semi-structured interviews with light-rail experts and a passenger survey. The results show that economic sustainability factors account for 12 out of 14 sustainability factors and 2 out of 14 social and environmental sustainability factors. The results are intended to be used as a decision support system for innovation adoption in other cities with similar context, in order to develop a sustainable approach to LRT planning.

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Taslim Alade; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. A Sustainable Approach to Innovation Adoption in Light-Rail Transport. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1262 .

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Taslim Alade, Jurian Edelenbos, Alberto Gianoli. A Sustainable Approach to Innovation Adoption in Light-Rail Transport. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (3):1262.

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Taslim Alade; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. 2020. "A Sustainable Approach to Innovation Adoption in Light-Rail Transport." Sustainability 12, no. 3: 1262.

Journal article
Published: 03 December 2019 in Urban Science
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A contextual approach to Light-Rail Transport (LRT) needs to be tailored towards specific contexts, in terms of situations or contingencies, such as socio-economic and environmental factors. This research intends to discuss the societal benefits comprised of well-informed contextual factors for policymakers and urban transport authorities, to enable them to be able to formulate objective policies for a city’s socio-economic development. The aim of this article is to analyze the contextual factors in three cities which are responsible for the contextualization of infrastructural innovations of urban light-rail transport from China. The methodology that has been used is a qualitative method using multiple case studies, which includes a pilot and semi-structured interview. The analysis compares the similarities and differences within Nigeria, and between Nigeria and Ethiopia. The most perceptible contextual factors which influence infrastructural innovations in Nigeria include an electric energy supply, modernization of LRT and their stations, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), and seamless integration of LRT with other transport modes. The most conspicuous factors in Ethiopia are emergency ticket shops, seamless integration of LRT with other transport modes, and Non-Motorized Transport (NMT). Nigeria and Ethiopia both share the seamless integration of LRT with other transport modes. Therefore, academically analyzing contextual factors helps to unravel the poly-contextualization and context-specific decision-making processes in LRT implementation.

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Taslim Alade; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. Adapting Urban Light-Rail Transport to the African Context: A Process Conducted by Transport Authorities and Chinese Rail Corporations in Addis-Ababa, Abuja, and Lagos. Urban Science 2019, 3, 109 .

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Taslim Alade, Jurian Edelenbos, Alberto Gianoli. Adapting Urban Light-Rail Transport to the African Context: A Process Conducted by Transport Authorities and Chinese Rail Corporations in Addis-Ababa, Abuja, and Lagos. Urban Science. 2019; 3 (4):109.

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Taslim Alade; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. 2019. "Adapting Urban Light-Rail Transport to the African Context: A Process Conducted by Transport Authorities and Chinese Rail Corporations in Addis-Ababa, Abuja, and Lagos." Urban Science 3, no. 4: 109.

Journal article
Published: 06 November 2019 in Informatics
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One positive impact of smart cities is reducing energy consumption and CO2 emission through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Energy transition pursues systematic changes to the low-carbon society, and it can benefit from technological and institutional advancement in smart cities. The integration of the energy transition to smart city development has not been thoroughly studied yet. The purpose of this study is to find empirical evidence of smart cities’ contributions to energy transition. The hypothesis is that there is a significant difference between smart and non-smart cities in the performance of energy transition. The Smart Energy Transition Index is introduced. Index is useful to summarize the smart city component’s contribution to energy transition and to enable comparison among cities. The cities in South Korea are divided into three groups: (1) first-wave smart cities that focus on smart transportation and security services; (2) second-wave smart cities that provide comprehensive urban services; and (3) non-smart cities. The results showed that second-wave smart cities scored higher than first-wave and non-smart cities, and there is a statistically significant difference among city groups. This confirms the hypothesis of this paper that smart city development can contribute to the energy transition.

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Yirang Lim; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. Smart Energy Transition: An Evaluation of Cities in South Korea. Informatics 2019, 6, 50 .

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Yirang Lim, Jurian Edelenbos, Alberto Gianoli. Smart Energy Transition: An Evaluation of Cities in South Korea. Informatics. 2019; 6 (4):50.

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Yirang Lim; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. 2019. "Smart Energy Transition: An Evaluation of Cities in South Korea." Informatics 6, no. 4: 50.

Original articles
Published: 20 September 2019 in Public Money & Management
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As indicated in the research on networks over the past 10 years, network management strategies are very important for achieving results in governance networks. But what characteristics influence the deployment of network management strategies? Using quantitative data on network managers in environmental projects at the local level, this paper looks at three important network characteristics (network size, degree of hierarchy, and conflict level) and assesses their influence on three categories of network management strategies: connecting, exploring, and arranging. The results show that, for network managers, more hierarchy leads to a stronger likelihood of choosing connecting; a larger network size leads to more exploring and arranging; and more conflict correlates with less use of connecting and exploring. IMPACT Public sector managers have to deal with the complexities of the networks they encounter when they want to solve issues. The authors’ research indicates that larger networks with more and a greater variety of actors need to be addressed by using more different network management strategies. A dilemma of the paper’s findings is that more conflict in the network was correlated with employing fewer network management strategies. But, of course, the conflict itself and the need to address the policy problem ask for more intensified managerial effort, taking time and attention to really solve the conflict. This paper offers some possible ways out.

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Erik Hans Klijn; Ingmar Van Meerkerk; Jurian Edelenbos. How do network characteristics influence network managers’ choice of strategies? Public Money & Management 2019, 40, 149 -159.

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Erik Hans Klijn, Ingmar Van Meerkerk, Jurian Edelenbos. How do network characteristics influence network managers’ choice of strategies? Public Money & Management. 2019; 40 (2):149-159.

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Erik Hans Klijn; Ingmar Van Meerkerk; Jurian Edelenbos. 2019. "How do network characteristics influence network managers’ choice of strategies?" Public Money & Management 40, no. 2: 149-159.

Journal article
Published: 09 July 2019 in Cities
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Smart city is an innovative urban development that aims at sustainable development and a high quality of life (Dirks & Keeling, 2009; Toppeta, 2010; Washburn et al., 2009). There are abundant studies on political and technological strategies to make smart cities, however, the changes induced by those strategies have not been comprehensively understood. In this regard, the purpose of this paper is to identify the results of smart city development using the systematic literature review method. We reviewed 55 papers and found 12 positive and 4 negative results are frequently mentioned. Among 12 positive results, six were purely hypothetical without any evidence: (1) enhancing citizen involvement, (2) protecting environment, (3) facilitating social development, (4) facilitating sustainable development, (5) fostering innovation, and (6) increasing social capital. There is relatively less attention to negative results. Two out of four negative results are purely hypothetical: (1) privacy and security issues and (2) diminishing freedom of speech and democracy. Further studies are needed in discovering the evidence for purely hypothetical impacts and comparing smart city development in advanced and emerging economies.

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Yirang Lim; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. Identifying the results of smart city development: Findings from systematic literature review. Cities 2019, 95, 102397 .

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Yirang Lim, Jurian Edelenbos, Alberto Gianoli. Identifying the results of smart city development: Findings from systematic literature review. Cities. 2019; 95 ():102397.

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Yirang Lim; Jurian Edelenbos; Alberto Gianoli. 2019. "Identifying the results of smart city development: Findings from systematic literature review." Cities 95, no. : 102397.

Articles
Published: 24 May 2019 in Public Management Review
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Community-based initiatives (CBIs) are thriving in Western countries. In CBIs, citizens take a leading role in providing public services and goods. CBIs have been acclaimed for their innovativeness, problem-solving capacity, and legitimacy. However, we lack large N studies on performance of CBIs and its antecedents. This article develops and tests a model that identifies relationships between performance and four antecedents by using survey data on CBIs collected in the Netherlands (N = 671). Using structural equation modelling, positive direct and indirect relationships between transformational leadership, boundary spanning leadership, organizational capacity, social capital ties, government support, and performance are found.

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Malika Igalla; Jurian Edelenbos; Ingmar Van Meerkerk. What explains the performance of community-based initiatives? Testing the impact of leadership, social capital, organizational capacity, and government support. Public Management Review 2019, 22, 602 -632.

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Malika Igalla, Jurian Edelenbos, Ingmar Van Meerkerk. What explains the performance of community-based initiatives? Testing the impact of leadership, social capital, organizational capacity, and government support. Public Management Review. 2019; 22 (4):602-632.

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Malika Igalla; Jurian Edelenbos; Ingmar Van Meerkerk. 2019. "What explains the performance of community-based initiatives? Testing the impact of leadership, social capital, organizational capacity, and government support." Public Management Review 22, no. 4: 602-632.

Journal article
Published: 28 February 2019 in Landscape and Urban Planning
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In many Western countries, flood policy is transitioning from a focus on technical flood defence measures towards more holistic and integrated flood risk management approaches. In this article, we explore the boundary spanning role of landscape architects in integrated flood risk management projects. The central research question is: what are the boundary spanning activities and roles that landscape architects perform and which factors are conditional to these activities? We have studied the boundary spanning behaviour of landscape architects in the Dutch ‘Room for the River’ programme. This programme had a dual objective of improving simultaneously the water safety and the spatial quality of the Dutch riverine areas. We conducted a comparative, in-depth case study of three ‘Room for the River’ projects, and investigated conditions that stimulated or frustrated the work of landscape architects in establishing safe solutions with spatial quality. We found that the landscape architects involved in these projects played various boundary spanning roles. We conclude that, depending on the conditional factors, their roles ranged from more traditional content-oriented domain expert/scout to the more innovative organisational expert/task coordinator. For successful boundary spanning, although cognitive capacities (e.g., knowledge about landscape) are important, landscape architects also need to have the appropriate social capacities (e.g., social-emotional competences, networking skills). That is, the work of the landscape architects essentially includes drawing lines that sketch the contours of future landscapes; but to do so, they must also cross the lines between the various actors, organizations, and disciplines involved.

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Margo Van Den Brink; Jurian Edelenbos; Adri Van Den Brink; Stefan Verweij; Rudi van Etteger; Tim Busscher. To draw or to cross the line? The landscape architect as boundary spanner in Dutch river management. Landscape and Urban Planning 2019, 186, 13 -23.

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Margo Van Den Brink, Jurian Edelenbos, Adri Van Den Brink, Stefan Verweij, Rudi van Etteger, Tim Busscher. To draw or to cross the line? The landscape architect as boundary spanner in Dutch river management. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2019; 186 ():13-23.

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Margo Van Den Brink; Jurian Edelenbos; Adri Van Den Brink; Stefan Verweij; Rudi van Etteger; Tim Busscher. 2019. "To draw or to cross the line? The landscape architect as boundary spanner in Dutch river management." Landscape and Urban Planning 186, no. : 13-23.

Chapter
Published: 13 January 2019 in Interactive Approaches to Water Governance in Asia
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This chapter reviews preceding cases of citizen engagement in water governance in the country, focusing on the interaction and relationship between citizen initiatives and governmental agencies in two cases from the Room for the River program, in order to provide a reference for Asian cases depicted in the following chapters. In the Netherlands, the traditional sectoral engineering approach has been used for water management for many years. However, the transition from this traditional method to an interactive method for integrated water management co-produced by citizens and government has been accelerated. Through comparative studies of two cases of flood risk management projects, this chapter shows contextual differences in the strategy, resources, and goals of initiators and governmental responses to stakeholder initiatives. The findings and discussions in this chapter contribute to the development of the theory of water governance and provide a perspective to analyze Asian cases where the role of government is still dominant in water governance.

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Jurian Edelenbos. Citizen Initiatives in Water Governance in the Netherlands: Reflection and Implication to Asian Cases. Interactive Approaches to Water Governance in Asia 2019, 29 -53.

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Jurian Edelenbos. Citizen Initiatives in Water Governance in the Netherlands: Reflection and Implication to Asian Cases. Interactive Approaches to Water Governance in Asia. 2019; ():29-53.

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Jurian Edelenbos. 2019. "Citizen Initiatives in Water Governance in the Netherlands: Reflection and Implication to Asian Cases." Interactive Approaches to Water Governance in Asia , no. : 29-53.

Journal article
Published: 25 December 2018 in Sustainability
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Sustainability transitions are of an inherently political nature. In particular, discussions on climate policy are dominated by national and international politics. Furthermore, sustainability transitions involve network governance in which both private, public, and societal actors are involved. These governance processes call for closely scrutinizing their performance in terms of democratic legitimacy. To study and assess the democratic quality of governance processes regarding climate policy, this article focuses on the role of political leadership, conceptualized as political meta-governance, in enhancing the democratic legitimacy in the field of sustainability transitions. In doing so, it examines the case of the Dutch National Agreement on Climate (“Nationaal Klimaatakkoord”). The findings of this study underline the theoretical assumption that governments seek to use network governance to address climate change and develop policies. Seeking to address the application of political meta-governance, this study finds that political leaders struggle to bring about a fully-fledged, deliberative, and integrative meta-governance approach. However, disparate meta-governance strategies are reported. Although democratic legitimacy concerning the Dutch Agreement on Climate in terms of accountability can be regarded as high, values concerning voice (inclusiveness) and due deliberation (transparency) score comparatively low. As such, this study further justifies the close attention governance scholars and practitioners pay to the democratic values at stake when governing through governance networks.

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Menno Ottens; Jurian Edelenbos. Political Leadership as Meta-Governance in Sustainability Transitions: A Case Study Analysis of Meta-Governance in the Case of the Dutch National Agreement on Climate. Sustainability 2018, 11, 110 .

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Menno Ottens, Jurian Edelenbos. Political Leadership as Meta-Governance in Sustainability Transitions: A Case Study Analysis of Meta-Governance in the Case of the Dutch National Agreement on Climate. Sustainability. 2018; 11 (1):110.

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Menno Ottens; Jurian Edelenbos. 2018. "Political Leadership as Meta-Governance in Sustainability Transitions: A Case Study Analysis of Meta-Governance in the Case of the Dutch National Agreement on Climate." Sustainability 11, no. 1: 110.