Tamara Metze is Full Professor in Public Administration at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University. Trained in Political Science and Science and Technology Studies (both ‘cum laude’), with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam in Public Administration. Metze is an experienced projectleader of transdisciplinary projects that experiment with boundary crossing collaborations for the governance of sustainability transitions (e.g. energy, food and the circular economy). In the reserarch there is a focus on the role of boundary objects, (visual) framing, conflict, and knowledge cocreation through research by design and scenario development. She has extensive experience in the coordination of and lecturing in courses on interdisciplinary research, on framing, discourse theory, political theory, innovative designs, and the energy transition.
De creatieve economie speelt in veel steden een belangrijke rol bij de herontwikkeling van voorma... more De creatieve economie speelt in veel steden een belangrijke rol bij de herontwikkeling van voormalige industriële complexen. Creatieve ondernemers zoals kunstenaars, ontwerpers en architecten stellen andere eisen aan de omgeving en laten zich inspireren door de ‘permanente onafheid’ van de locatie.
De nieuwe bestemming van gebouwen en wijken wordt vaak gekoppeld aan tijdelijk gebruik zoals evenementen, theater, muziek en horeca. Deze creatieve identiteit komt voort uit een bewust samenspel van de kenmerken van de locatie en de inzet van de creatieve ondernemer, de ontwikkelaar, de architect en de gemeente. Hoe beter het samenspel, hoe sterker het concept, hoe groter de aantrekkingskracht op huurders, omwonenden en bezoekers, en hoe groter de economische waarde en culturele betekenis van het gebied.
Nieuwe ideeën voor oude gebouwen geeft inzicht in de wijze waarop creatieve economie kan worden ingezet, in welke milieus creativiteit bloeit, hoe deze versneld wordt, en hoe waardeontwikkeling bevorderd kan worden. De ontwikkelingsstrategieën in dit boek zijn voortgekomen uit de praktijk van zeven ‘proeftuinen’ in verschillende steden.
De auteurs zijn de afgelopen drie jaar zelf als onder meer projectontwikkelaar, corporatiedirecteur en gemeentelijk projectleider betrokken geweest bij de experimenten met nieuwe strategieën in herontwikkelingsprojecten.
Visualizations are increasingly important for environmental policy and planning. They have great ... more Visualizations are increasingly important for environmental policy and planning. They have great impact on how we perceive environmental problems, their solutions, and if we consider policies legitimate. The systematic review in this paper brings together 20 years of studies in visualization in environmental policy and planning. This review shows that over the last two decades, more and more studies have demonstrated that visualization plays a role in data-communication, influences decision making, public perception, public participation, and knowledge cocreation. Based on the systematic review, three research lines are developed that aim to better take into account the challenges of a global and active public that through internet and social media is formed around environmental and planning issues. We can do this by (1) moving beyond a knowledge deficit model (2) pay more attention to the material dimensions of visualizations and their role in opening up spaces for cocreation, and (3) include the study of found images as these contain information on public sentiment, and are a form of public accountability.
A circular, bio-based economy could provide the pathway to a sustainable future. Here we present ... more A circular, bio-based economy could provide the pathway to a sustainable future. Here we present five ecological principles to guide biomass use towards a circular bioeconomy: safeguarding and regenerating the health of our (agro)ecosystems; avoiding non-essential products and the waste of essential ones; prioritizing biomass streams for basic human needs; utilizing and recycling by-products of (agro)ecosystems; and using renewable energy while minimizing overall energy use. Implementing these principles calls for a transformation of our current economic system, including fundamental changes to policies, technologies, organizations, social behaviour and markets.
Hydraulic fracturing is a technology developed to improve and increase the production of natural ... more Hydraulic fracturing is a technology developed to improve and increase the production of natural gas. In many countries, including the Netherlands, it has caused environmental controversies. In these controversies, ‘futurity framing’ may open up debates for alternative paradigms such as ‘degrowth,’ which is the pursuing of collective and deliberative, downscaled production of (natural) resources and less consumption for convivial living. Based on a frame analysis, it is demonstrated that opponents and proponents of fracking have envisaged pessimistic energy futures either to promote or devaluate fracking technology. In addition, the results show that dominant technological enthusiasm has enabled the introduction of ‘degrowth technology,’ which are downscaled, decentralized and renewable energy technologies. Degrowth-technology framing may provide a means of access for more radical degrowth thinking in the energy debates. This empirical finding also indicates that the degrowth paradigm could include controversies as entry points for creating support for degrowth thinking.
ABSTRACT This special issue addresses hydraulic fracturing for shale gas extraction as an interpr... more ABSTRACT This special issue addresses hydraulic fracturing for shale gas extraction as an interpretive policy problem. Bringing together empirical cases from the U.S.A., the Netherlands, the U.K., Poland, and Germany, we identify three approaches to the interpretation of hydraulic fracturing in the article: understanding its meaning, contextual explanation of the institutionalization of its meaning, and policy design as intervention to alter its meaning. By exploring differences and similarities across these cases, we identified two central tensions in the meaning of shale gas in all cases: (1) economic opportunity or environmental threat and (2) transition toward a more carbon-free energy future or perpetuation of a fossil fuel system. We found that when actors shift the meaning of hydraulic fracturing to consider it predominantly an issue of threat, this explains the dominance of risk governance as an approach to managing the controversy. Alternately, when the meaning of fracking shifts from consideration as an economic opportunity or a bridge fuel to consideration of it as a barrier to an energy transition, this explains the decision to ban fracking. Therefore, a comparative assessment of the papers demonstrates the ways interpretive dimensions of politics can influence the governance of public policy
Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a controversial issue in most countries. In these controver... more Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a controversial issue in most countries. In these controversies, actors use discursive boundary work to convince various audiences of their position. Discursive boundary work is a communicative strategy that involves the framing of facts in contrast to other kinds of arguments. In this article we develop the Dynamic Discourse Coalition (DDC) approach to study how discourse coalitions deploy discursive boundary work to confirm, integrate, polarize or disintegrate their own and opposing discourse coalitions. The DDC approach enables a deeper understanding of the dynamics of controversies about hydraulic fracturing and similar contested technologies by illuminating the influence of communicative processes on policy formation. Based on an analysis of policy documents, academic reports, newspapers, interviews and websites we compare the dynamics of contesting discourse coalitions in the Netherlands and New York. This analysis explains why policy formed in different ways in the cases, despite the apparent similarity of the discourse coalitions that emerged in the respective controversies.
This chapter introduces a specific form of good urban governance: good collaborative governance. ... more This chapter introduces a specific form of good urban governance: good collaborative governance. This type of governance emphasizes the following values for governing: outcome-oriented boundary crossing, policy learning, and democratic anchorage. We argue that good governance is a collaborative process and that negotiation of results is part and parcel of collaboration. To establish good collaboration, organizations and policy fields need to be aligned. Moreover, policy learning and reflection on normal ways of governing is an integrated part of collaborative governance. In addition, collaboration needs to be anchored in democratic values and in a democratic system: the process of collaboration needs (1) to be controlled by democratically elected politicians; (2) to represent the membership basis of the participating groups and organizations; (3) to be accountable to the territorially defined citizenry; and (4) to follow the democratic rules specified by a particular grammar of conduct. We assessed these criteria of good collaborative governance in a case of collaborative governance in the youth domain in the city of Amsterdam. In this chapter, we examine whether or not this is a case of good collaborative governance. In addition, we demonstrate what challenges occurred for this type of governing, and how the collaborating partners dealt with these challenges.
Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a controversial issue in most countries. In these controver... more Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a controversial issue in most countries. In these controversies, actors use discursive boundary work to convince various audiences of their position. Discursive boundary work is a communicative strategy that involves the framing of facts in contrast to other kinds of arguments. In this article we develop the Dynamic Discourse Coalition (DDC) approach to study how discourse coalitions deploy discursive boundary work to confirm, integrate, polarize or disintegrate their own and opposing discourse coalitions. The DDC approach enables a deeper understanding of the dynamics of controversies about hydraulic fracturing and similar contested technologies by illuminating the influence of communicative processes on policy formation. Based on an analysis of policy documents, academic reports, newspapers, interviews and websites we compare the dynamics of contesting discourse coalitions in the Netherlands and New York. This analysis explains why policy formed in different ways in the cases, despite the apparent similarity of the discourse coalitions that emerged in the respective controversies.
The meaning of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is contested worldwide: is it an energy game ch... more The meaning of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is contested worldwide: is it an energy game changer, a transition fuel, or a technology that poses severe environmental problems? In the Netherlands, a policy controversy developed in which fracturing was reframed from ‘business as usual’ to a potential environmental risk. This article theoretically and empirically describes this shift by arguing that the technology of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a boundary object that created a sphere of engagement for all sorts of actors. In this sphere, they negotiated a common but soft meaning of this technology. These negotiations consisted of frame contests. As part of those contests, the discursive strategies of framing and boundary work enabled opponents to create uncertainty about economic benefits and environmental impact. The shift in meaning transformed the issue from an economic one with standard governmental rules and regulations into a planning issue that needs more precaution.
De creatieve economie speelt in veel steden een belangrijke rol bij de herontwikkeling van voorma... more De creatieve economie speelt in veel steden een belangrijke rol bij de herontwikkeling van voormalige industriële complexen. Creatieve ondernemers zoals kunstenaars, ontwerpers en architecten stellen andere eisen aan de omgeving en laten zich inspireren door de ‘permanente onafheid’ van de locatie.
De nieuwe bestemming van gebouwen en wijken wordt vaak gekoppeld aan tijdelijk gebruik zoals evenementen, theater, muziek en horeca. Deze creatieve identiteit komt voort uit een bewust samenspel van de kenmerken van de locatie en de inzet van de creatieve ondernemer, de ontwikkelaar, de architect en de gemeente. Hoe beter het samenspel, hoe sterker het concept, hoe groter de aantrekkingskracht op huurders, omwonenden en bezoekers, en hoe groter de economische waarde en culturele betekenis van het gebied.
Nieuwe ideeën voor oude gebouwen geeft inzicht in de wijze waarop creatieve economie kan worden ingezet, in welke milieus creativiteit bloeit, hoe deze versneld wordt, en hoe waardeontwikkeling bevorderd kan worden. De ontwikkelingsstrategieën in dit boek zijn voortgekomen uit de praktijk van zeven ‘proeftuinen’ in verschillende steden.
De auteurs zijn de afgelopen drie jaar zelf als onder meer projectontwikkelaar, corporatiedirecteur en gemeentelijk projectleider betrokken geweest bij de experimenten met nieuwe strategieën in herontwikkelingsprojecten.
Visualizations are increasingly important for environmental policy and planning. They have great ... more Visualizations are increasingly important for environmental policy and planning. They have great impact on how we perceive environmental problems, their solutions, and if we consider policies legitimate. The systematic review in this paper brings together 20 years of studies in visualization in environmental policy and planning. This review shows that over the last two decades, more and more studies have demonstrated that visualization plays a role in data-communication, influences decision making, public perception, public participation, and knowledge cocreation. Based on the systematic review, three research lines are developed that aim to better take into account the challenges of a global and active public that through internet and social media is formed around environmental and planning issues. We can do this by (1) moving beyond a knowledge deficit model (2) pay more attention to the material dimensions of visualizations and their role in opening up spaces for cocreation, and (3) include the study of found images as these contain information on public sentiment, and are a form of public accountability.
A circular, bio-based economy could provide the pathway to a sustainable future. Here we present ... more A circular, bio-based economy could provide the pathway to a sustainable future. Here we present five ecological principles to guide biomass use towards a circular bioeconomy: safeguarding and regenerating the health of our (agro)ecosystems; avoiding non-essential products and the waste of essential ones; prioritizing biomass streams for basic human needs; utilizing and recycling by-products of (agro)ecosystems; and using renewable energy while minimizing overall energy use. Implementing these principles calls for a transformation of our current economic system, including fundamental changes to policies, technologies, organizations, social behaviour and markets.
Hydraulic fracturing is a technology developed to improve and increase the production of natural ... more Hydraulic fracturing is a technology developed to improve and increase the production of natural gas. In many countries, including the Netherlands, it has caused environmental controversies. In these controversies, ‘futurity framing’ may open up debates for alternative paradigms such as ‘degrowth,’ which is the pursuing of collective and deliberative, downscaled production of (natural) resources and less consumption for convivial living. Based on a frame analysis, it is demonstrated that opponents and proponents of fracking have envisaged pessimistic energy futures either to promote or devaluate fracking technology. In addition, the results show that dominant technological enthusiasm has enabled the introduction of ‘degrowth technology,’ which are downscaled, decentralized and renewable energy technologies. Degrowth-technology framing may provide a means of access for more radical degrowth thinking in the energy debates. This empirical finding also indicates that the degrowth paradigm could include controversies as entry points for creating support for degrowth thinking.
ABSTRACT This special issue addresses hydraulic fracturing for shale gas extraction as an interpr... more ABSTRACT This special issue addresses hydraulic fracturing for shale gas extraction as an interpretive policy problem. Bringing together empirical cases from the U.S.A., the Netherlands, the U.K., Poland, and Germany, we identify three approaches to the interpretation of hydraulic fracturing in the article: understanding its meaning, contextual explanation of the institutionalization of its meaning, and policy design as intervention to alter its meaning. By exploring differences and similarities across these cases, we identified two central tensions in the meaning of shale gas in all cases: (1) economic opportunity or environmental threat and (2) transition toward a more carbon-free energy future or perpetuation of a fossil fuel system. We found that when actors shift the meaning of hydraulic fracturing to consider it predominantly an issue of threat, this explains the dominance of risk governance as an approach to managing the controversy. Alternately, when the meaning of fracking shifts from consideration as an economic opportunity or a bridge fuel to consideration of it as a barrier to an energy transition, this explains the decision to ban fracking. Therefore, a comparative assessment of the papers demonstrates the ways interpretive dimensions of politics can influence the governance of public policy
Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a controversial issue in most countries. In these controver... more Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a controversial issue in most countries. In these controversies, actors use discursive boundary work to convince various audiences of their position. Discursive boundary work is a communicative strategy that involves the framing of facts in contrast to other kinds of arguments. In this article we develop the Dynamic Discourse Coalition (DDC) approach to study how discourse coalitions deploy discursive boundary work to confirm, integrate, polarize or disintegrate their own and opposing discourse coalitions. The DDC approach enables a deeper understanding of the dynamics of controversies about hydraulic fracturing and similar contested technologies by illuminating the influence of communicative processes on policy formation. Based on an analysis of policy documents, academic reports, newspapers, interviews and websites we compare the dynamics of contesting discourse coalitions in the Netherlands and New York. This analysis explains why policy formed in different ways in the cases, despite the apparent similarity of the discourse coalitions that emerged in the respective controversies.
This chapter introduces a specific form of good urban governance: good collaborative governance. ... more This chapter introduces a specific form of good urban governance: good collaborative governance. This type of governance emphasizes the following values for governing: outcome-oriented boundary crossing, policy learning, and democratic anchorage. We argue that good governance is a collaborative process and that negotiation of results is part and parcel of collaboration. To establish good collaboration, organizations and policy fields need to be aligned. Moreover, policy learning and reflection on normal ways of governing is an integrated part of collaborative governance. In addition, collaboration needs to be anchored in democratic values and in a democratic system: the process of collaboration needs (1) to be controlled by democratically elected politicians; (2) to represent the membership basis of the participating groups and organizations; (3) to be accountable to the territorially defined citizenry; and (4) to follow the democratic rules specified by a particular grammar of conduct. We assessed these criteria of good collaborative governance in a case of collaborative governance in the youth domain in the city of Amsterdam. In this chapter, we examine whether or not this is a case of good collaborative governance. In addition, we demonstrate what challenges occurred for this type of governing, and how the collaborating partners dealt with these challenges.
Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a controversial issue in most countries. In these controver... more Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a controversial issue in most countries. In these controversies, actors use discursive boundary work to convince various audiences of their position. Discursive boundary work is a communicative strategy that involves the framing of facts in contrast to other kinds of arguments. In this article we develop the Dynamic Discourse Coalition (DDC) approach to study how discourse coalitions deploy discursive boundary work to confirm, integrate, polarize or disintegrate their own and opposing discourse coalitions. The DDC approach enables a deeper understanding of the dynamics of controversies about hydraulic fracturing and similar contested technologies by illuminating the influence of communicative processes on policy formation. Based on an analysis of policy documents, academic reports, newspapers, interviews and websites we compare the dynamics of contesting discourse coalitions in the Netherlands and New York. This analysis explains why policy formed in different ways in the cases, despite the apparent similarity of the discourse coalitions that emerged in the respective controversies.
The meaning of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is contested worldwide: is it an energy game ch... more The meaning of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is contested worldwide: is it an energy game changer, a transition fuel, or a technology that poses severe environmental problems? In the Netherlands, a policy controversy developed in which fracturing was reframed from ‘business as usual’ to a potential environmental risk. This article theoretically and empirically describes this shift by arguing that the technology of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a boundary object that created a sphere of engagement for all sorts of actors. In this sphere, they negotiated a common but soft meaning of this technology. These negotiations consisted of frame contests. As part of those contests, the discursive strategies of framing and boundary work enabled opponents to create uncertainty about economic benefits and environmental impact. The shift in meaning transformed the issue from an economic one with standard governmental rules and regulations into a planning issue that needs more precaution.
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De nieuwe bestemming van gebouwen en wijken wordt vaak gekoppeld aan tijdelijk gebruik zoals evenementen, theater, muziek en horeca. Deze creatieve identiteit komt voort uit een bewust samenspel van de kenmerken van de locatie en de inzet van de creatieve ondernemer, de ontwikkelaar, de architect en de gemeente. Hoe beter het samenspel, hoe sterker het concept, hoe groter de aantrekkingskracht op huurders, omwonenden en bezoekers, en hoe groter de economische waarde en culturele betekenis van het gebied.
Nieuwe ideeën voor oude gebouwen geeft inzicht in de wijze waarop creatieve economie kan worden ingezet, in welke milieus creativiteit bloeit, hoe deze versneld wordt, en hoe waardeontwikkeling bevorderd kan worden. De ontwikkelingsstrategieën in dit boek zijn voortgekomen uit de praktijk van zeven ‘proeftuinen’ in verschillende steden.
De auteurs zijn de afgelopen drie jaar zelf als onder meer projectontwikkelaar, corporatiedirecteur en gemeentelijk projectleider betrokken geweest bij de experimenten met nieuwe strategieën in herontwikkelingsprojecten.
Papers by Tamara Metze
Based on a frame analysis, it is demonstrated that opponents and proponents of fracking have envisaged pessimistic energy futures either to promote or devaluate fracking technology. In addition, the results show that dominant technological enthusiasm has enabled the introduction of ‘degrowth technology,’ which are downscaled, decentralized and renewable energy technologies. Degrowth-technology framing may provide a means of access for more radical degrowth thinking in the energy debates. This empirical finding also indicates that the degrowth paradigm could include controversies as entry points for
creating support for degrowth thinking.
De nieuwe bestemming van gebouwen en wijken wordt vaak gekoppeld aan tijdelijk gebruik zoals evenementen, theater, muziek en horeca. Deze creatieve identiteit komt voort uit een bewust samenspel van de kenmerken van de locatie en de inzet van de creatieve ondernemer, de ontwikkelaar, de architect en de gemeente. Hoe beter het samenspel, hoe sterker het concept, hoe groter de aantrekkingskracht op huurders, omwonenden en bezoekers, en hoe groter de economische waarde en culturele betekenis van het gebied.
Nieuwe ideeën voor oude gebouwen geeft inzicht in de wijze waarop creatieve economie kan worden ingezet, in welke milieus creativiteit bloeit, hoe deze versneld wordt, en hoe waardeontwikkeling bevorderd kan worden. De ontwikkelingsstrategieën in dit boek zijn voortgekomen uit de praktijk van zeven ‘proeftuinen’ in verschillende steden.
De auteurs zijn de afgelopen drie jaar zelf als onder meer projectontwikkelaar, corporatiedirecteur en gemeentelijk projectleider betrokken geweest bij de experimenten met nieuwe strategieën in herontwikkelingsprojecten.
Based on a frame analysis, it is demonstrated that opponents and proponents of fracking have envisaged pessimistic energy futures either to promote or devaluate fracking technology. In addition, the results show that dominant technological enthusiasm has enabled the introduction of ‘degrowth technology,’ which are downscaled, decentralized and renewable energy technologies. Degrowth-technology framing may provide a means of access for more radical degrowth thinking in the energy debates. This empirical finding also indicates that the degrowth paradigm could include controversies as entry points for
creating support for degrowth thinking.