Marleen Lodder

DRIFT Dutch Research Institute for Transitions

This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor—an ecology for and with the city. We build on this “prepositional journey” by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecolo...

This paper explores the institutional mainstreaming of nature-based solutions (NBS) to advance a process-based understanding about how to strategically develop the governance capacities needed for systemic, localised and inclusive NBS. To this end, it reports how policy officers in ten European cities have started to mainstream NBS by interacting w...

This paper identifies and examines the strategies and governance conditions by which ten European cities have started mainstreaming nature-based solutions (NBS) as innovative systemic solutions in urban planning. The three sets of mainstreaming strategies focus on how teams of policy entrepreneurs within the cities experimented with innovative gove...

To advance the science and practice of implementing nature-based solutions in cities, it is important to examine the obstacles and provide means to overcome them. This paper presents a conceptual framework of policy needs for analysing the science of nature-based solutions’ implementation and connect it to the practice of their implementation that...

(DUTCH) This book contains a trend analysis and scenario study about the impact of new information technologies and production technologies on regional economy, spatial development and social aspects. The work was a cooperation between DRIFT (Erasmus University), Studio Marco Vermeulen and Provincie Zuid-Holland.

This paper will analyse the developments in the spatial planning system in the Netherlands, as of the industrial revolution, as it has led to good practices of international recognition, but now seems to be under pressure because of the increasing complexity and multiple crises induced by societal changes. This historical analysis will be conducted...

This paper takes stock of the conceptual advances in the recent literature on sustainable development and sustainable economics. The main object of study will be the paradigm shifts from the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approach (Elkington, 1997) to the Triple Top Line (TTL) approach (McDonough and Braungart, 2002a). In this paper, we suggest that thes...