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 2017 2019

9 Article
2 Chapter
2 Paper
2 Editorial
2 More
- 1 Abstract
- 1 Comment/Letter to the editor

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

The Fitness Check of the Birds and Habitats Directives: A discourse analysis of stakeholders' perspectives

Ferranti, F., Beunen, R., Vericat, P. & Geitzenauer, M., Feb 2019, In : Journal for Nature Conservation. 47, p. 103-109 7 p.

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

Open Access

Co-evolutionary planning theory: Evolutionary Governance Theory and its relatives

Van Assche, K., Beunen, R. & Duineveld, M., 2018, The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory. Gunder, M., Madanipour, A. & Watson, V. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 221-233

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

planning theory

evolutionary theory

planning

planning system

spatial planning