Greening the state? The framing of sustainability in Dutch infrastructure governance

Niki Frantzeskaki, Shivant Jhagroe and Michael Howlett

Environmental Science & Policy, 2016, vol. 58, issue C, 123-130

Abstract: This paper investigates how the notion of ‘sustainability’ is strategically framed in the context of Dutch infrastructure governance in the Netherlands. By conducting a frame analysis (based on policy documents, websites and semi-structured interviews), the paper discerns six sustainability frames. These frames concern substantive (e.g., more focus on ecology), process (activating new networks) and organizational (e.g., new practices of work) aspects. The paper also illustrates how these sustainability frames relate to the changing institutional context of infrastructure policy and governance more broadly. The paper discusses some of the productive and challenging implications of the dynamics of sustainability in today’s complex and multi-dimensional world of governance.

Keywords: Sustainability; Narratives; Infrastructure governance; Ecological modernization; Policy metaphor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2016.01.011

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