Raoul Beunen

Personal profile

Research interests

My research explores the potentials and limitations of environmental policy and planning in the perspective of adaptive governance and sustainability. It focuses on innovation and evolution in governance, paying attention to the dynamics of policy implementation and integration, multi-level governance, stakeholder involvement, and the performance of institutional structures. The research covers various policy domains including nature conservation, spatial planning, and tourism development and has been carried out in a different countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, United States, Romania and Georgia.

Keywords

JA Political science (General)
Adaptive Governance
Evolutionary Governance Theory
Institutional change
Spatial planning
Land use planning
nature conservation
Natura 2000
natural resource management
participation
power

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Research Output 2014 2019

18 Article
4 Editorial
2 Chapter
2 Paper
3 More

Analysing institutional change in environmental governance: exploring the concept of 'institutional work'

Beunen, R. & Patterson, J. J., 2 Jan 2019, In : Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 62, 1, p. 12-29 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

A new role for citizens’ initiatives: the difficulties in co-creating institutional change in urban planning

Bisschops, S. & Beunen, R., 2 Jan 2019, In : Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 62, 1, p. 72-87 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Urban planning

institutional change

urban planning

citizen

brownfield site

Herijken van de discussie over stikstof: Opinie

Beunen, R., Nov 2019, In : Bionieuws. 2019, 19 - 30 November, p. 13 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Popular

Institutional work in environmental governance

Patterson, J. J. & Beunen, R., 2019, In : Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 62, 1, p. 1-11 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Research methods as bridging devices: path and context mapping in governance

Van Assche, K., Beunen, R., Gruezmacher, M., Duineveld, M., Deacon, L., Summers, R., Hallstrom, L. & Jones, K., 19 Nov 2019, In : Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Governance

Research methods

Decision making

Defects

Governance theory