Over the past 20 years, water quality in Indonesia has deteriorated due to an increase of water pollution. Research and analysis is needed to identify pollution sources and assess contamination in Indonesian water resources. Water quality management is not yet sufficiently integrated in river basin management in Indonesia, which mainly focuses on water quantity. Women are comparatively highly impacted by failing water resources management, but theirinvolvement in decision making processes is limited. Water quality deterioration continues to increase socio-economic inequality, as it are the most poor communities who live on and along the river. The uneven water quality related disease burden in Brantas River Basin widens the socio-economic gap between societal groups. In the Brantas region, cooperation and intention between stakeholders to tackle these issues is growing, but is fragile as well due to overlapping institutional mandates, poor status of water quality monitoring networks, and limited commitment of industries to treat their waste water streams. The existing group of Indonesian change makers will be supported by this project. Three Indonesian and three Dutch organisations have teamed up to support negotiation platforms in order to deal with institutional challenges, to increase water quality monitoring capacity, to build an enabling environment facilitating sustainable industrial change, and to develop an enabling environment in support of community concerns and civil society initiatives. The project builds on integrated water quality monitoring and modelling within a framework of social learning. The strong consortium will be able to build links with civil society groups (including women, farmer and fisher unions) in close cooperation with local, regional and national Indonesian governmentinstitutions to clean the Brantas river and secure income and health for East Java’s population, in particular the most vulnerable groups.
Moroccan companies face a multitude of risks related to their vulnerability to climate change, in particular operational, supply chain, and financial risks. In recent years, public and private actors have experimented with a number of approaches to facilitate the integration of climate change at different planning levels. Among these approaches, the Climate-Expert tool aims to help companies assess their vulnerability to climate change and develop relevant adaptation strategies. Some 20 Moroccan companies, in various sectors of activity, have tested this tool in the framework of two cooperation programs. First, this chapter provides an overview of the achievements of the adaptation mainstreaming process in the private sector in Morocco. Then, it analyzes the Climate-Expert approach qualitatively following three steps according to an iterative logic. The contact groups include the participants involved in the said cooperation programs, namely, experts, economic operators, and state and project officials. Finally, this chapter highlights the obstacles related to the Climate-Expert approach and proposes ways to improve the mainstreaming of adaptation based on the emerging realities and needs of the companies concerned. In addition, in terms of adaptation planning, this analysis emphasizes the need to upgrade Climate-Expert’s approach toward an integrated and well-documented design, using relevant climate and sectoral data and information to meet the needs of developing country companies. Regarding the implementation of adaptation measures, it remains relatively limited in the evaluated companies. This is mainly due to the lack of support and advice instruments and the lack of entities in charge of steering adaptation actions within these companies. This work will later pave the way for improving and adapting the Climate-Expert tool to meet the needs of action in such companies.
The research examines junk news, followers of problematic sources as well as artificial amplification on Instagram during the 2019 Dutch provincial and European parliamentary elections. First, this study looks at the circulation of junk content in high-engagement political spaces on Instagram. Second, it takes up the question of the mainstreaming of Dutch junk news providers by looking at the intersection between the followers of Dutch political entities and those of junk news sources. Third, it looks at the presence of artificial engagement tactics (specifically fake followers) employed by Dutch political entities and news sources on Instagram. In all it was found that Dutch political Instagram is a relatively healthy space, but not for all issues or political entities.
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Klimaatverandering maakt dat steden zich moeten aanpassen. Dit vraagt om grootschalige aanpassingen op publieke en private grond. Amsterdam en Rotterdam hebben als koplopers in stedelijke klimaatadaptatie de afgelopen jaren geëxperimenteerd met twee platforms (Amsterdam Rainproof en Water Sensitive Rotterdam) om met bewoners, woningcorporaties en bedrijven de stad klimaatadaptief te maken. Het succes van beide platforms, in combinatie met de groeiende urgentie voor klimaatadaptatie, zorgt anno 2019 voor een roep om een ‘nieuw normaal’: hoe kan deze vernieuwende, uitnodigende werkwijze mainstream worden? Juist de kenmerken die de platforms zo succesvol hebben gemaakt, kunnen nu een barrière voor mainstreaming vormen. Waar in eerste instantie een kleine kopgroep veel kan bereiken met flexibiliteit, ad-hoc besluiten en gelijkwaardig partnerschap, vraagt het opgaan in reguliere beleidsprocessen om meer vastigheden die gebruikelijk zijn bij de overheid-gedreven aanpak van stedelijk waterbeheer. Mainstreaming van de vernieuwende, uitnodigende werkwijze lijkt daardoor moeilijk te bereiken. Dit onderzoek evalueert de succesfactoren en barrières van een uitnodigende werkwijze op basis van lessen van Amsterdam Rainproof en Water Sensitive Rotterdam. Tevens wordt onderzocht via welke routes deze aanpak mainstream kan worden in beide steden. Met een interactieve routekaart, opgesteld in workshops met deelnemers uit Amsterdam en Rotterdam wordt theoretische kennis over de barrières voor mainstreaming vertaald naar proactieve keuzes en routes. Waterbeheerders kunnen zo beter anticiperen op mainstreaming-barrières, en daarmee hun uitnodigende werkwijze beter bestuurlijk inbedden. Hiermee dragen we bij aan steden die beter voorbereid zijn op klimaatverandering, en aan kennis over het ontwikkelen van een uitnodigende werkwijze binnen de watersector.
