For environmental governance to be more effective and transformative, it needs to enhance the presence of experimental and innovative approaches for participation. This enhancement requires a transformation of environmental governance, as too often the (public) participation process is set up as a formal obligation in the development of a proposed intervention. This article, in search of alternatives, and in support of this transformation elaborates on spaces where participatory and deliberative governance processes have been deployed. Experiences with two mediated participation methodologies – community art and visual problem appraisal – allow a demonstration of their potential, relevance and attractiveness. Additionally, the article analyzes the challenges that result from the nature of these arts-based methodologies, from the confrontational aspects of voices overlooked in conventional approaches, and from the need to rethink professionals’ competences. Considering current environmental urgencies, mediated participation and social imaginaries still demonstrate capacities to open new avenues for action and reflection.
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With this paper, it is illustrated that a focus on entrepreneurship training in the nature and wilderness sector is relevant for diverse organisations and situations. The first curricula on nature entrepreneurship are currently being developed. In this paper the authors describe a project that focusses on educating the next generation of nature entrepreneurs, reflect on the Erasmus Intensive Program ‘European Wilderness Entrepreneur’ and the Wild10 World Café on nature entrepreneurship training. Sharing and learning from experiences is highly recommended to further develop and strengthen the curricula while considering the dynamic context of nature conservation and restoration of ecological processes.
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When corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a sensemaking process is assessed from a corporate governance perspective, this implies that stakeholders do not only influence companies by promoting and enforcing regulations and other corporate guidelines. They also influence companies by promoting regulation on influence pathways, by demanding that companies develop formal mechanisms that allow companies and stakeholders to discuss and in some cases agree on changes to principles and policies. This perspective suggests that regulation is an outcome of power relations and is, as such, a reflection of certain mental models. As such, mental models reveal the political bias in corporate governance perspectives. For this reason, CSR research needs to be clear about the underlying assumptions about corporate governance, and corporate governance research needs to disclose which mental models of CSR influence the outcomes. Taking a governance perspective on the development of mental models of CSR helps to understand the interaction between CSR and processes of sensemaking at the institutional, organizational and individual levels.
Project rondom NEXT Governance. 80 bewoners van het nationaal landschap Middag-Humsterland stelden in 2017 een visie op, die ze vervolgens in vijf werkgroepen (onder begeleiding van het Lectoraat Duurzaam Coöperatief Ondernemen) zelf tot realisatie brengen. gebiedsontwikkeling, coöperatief, next governance, Project rondom NEXT Governance. 80 bewoners van het nationaal landschap Middag-Humsterland stelden in 2017 een visie op, die ze vervolgens in vijf werkgroepen (onder begeleiding van het Lectoraat Duurzaam Coöperatief Ondernemen) zelf, coöperatief, tot realisatie brengen. Tegelijkertijd werkt de regio zo zelf aan onderwerpen als 'energietransitie binnen het landschap', 'regiomarketing', 'leefbaarheid', 'nieuwe verdienmodellen voor boeren'. In totaliteit zijn er momenteel meer dan 100 mensen in het gebied betrokken bij de ontwikkelingen.
