Archive / Filing Cabinet unto 2015
Dear visitor, This website functions as a filing cabinet for stuff from 2015 and before. Updated bio, activities and publications are at www.uu.nl/ufs and at my LinkedIn profile for the moment. MH
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New Publication: “Beyond Cockpit-ism: Four Insights to Enhance the Transformative Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals”
Beyond Cockpit-ism: Four Insights to Enhance the Transformative Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability, vol. 7, pp. 1651-1660. Co-authored with: Måns Nilsson, Kate Raworth, Peter Bakker, Frans Berkhout, Yvo de Boer, Johan Rockström, Kathrin Ludwig, and Marcel Kok. Abstract: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) have the potential to become a powerful political vision that can support …
Europe needs ‘smart urbanism’, not ‘smart cities’
Everywhere we hear the discourse of ‘smart cities’. It promises an era of innovative urban planning, driven by smart urban technologies that will makes cities safer, cleaner and, above all, more efficient. Efficiency seems uncontroversial, but does it make for great cities? I would argue for a ‘smart urbanism’ instead of uncritically adopting ‘smart cities’ …
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Choose or loose?
It was in the mid 1990s. On our way to a family holiday in the Alps we made a stopover in Salzburg. Salzburg, the city of Mozart, of the fortress and, of course, of The Sound of Music. Parking signs guided us to a parking house, which happened to be built in a massive rock, …
Smart Move
Ik ging naar Amsterdam om de toekomst te zien. Een grote internationale conferentie over smart cities in de RAI; wellicht de meest efficiënte manier om er achter te komen wat we hier van kunnen verwachten. Wie zich in smart cities taal uitdrukt heeft het oor van de bestuurder. Technologische oplossingen, grote lokale politieke ambities (‘Copenhagen …
Shifting Gear – The Politics of Sustainable Mobility
Mobility is the elixir of modern society. Man has been a travelling species for longer, of course. The quest not only for food, power and wealth, but also for ideas has inspired people to travel for ages. But during the modern era, we have perfected the mobility system. We now have a global economy that …
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Rio+20 as World Exhibition
Yes, I will be going to Rio. I am going to Rio to see the future. Because Rio+20 is more than a regular conference – it is a World Exhibition. Rio+20 is thematically synonymous with the future, but the meeting of world leaders takes place within the structures of the past. This means that making …