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horticultural sector; Current state and suggestions for improvement. Wageningen, Wageningen Economic Research, Report 2019-005. 46 pp.; 1 fig.; 2 tab.; 24 ref. De tuinbouw in Jordanië gaat gebukt onder een crisis als gevolg van weggevallen export. Innovatie kan de positie van de sector verbeteren. Daartoe dient de Jordaanse overheid innovatiebeleid te voeren met het agrarisch kennis-en innovatiesysteem (AKIS) als object van sturing. Op basis van een review van het Jordaanse AKIS wordt voorgesteld in een Living Lab ervaring op te doen met het managen van een aantal innovatieprojecten en capaciteitsopbouwprojecten. The horticultural sector in Jordan is undergoing a crisis, due to a decline in export. Innovation can improve the performance of the sector. To this end, the government of Jordan should pursue an innovation policy with the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) as object of the governance. Based on a review of the AKIS in Jordan it is proposed that a Living Lab setting be used to gain experience with the management of a number of innovation projects and capacity building projects.

As concerns around water scarcity and energy security increase, so too has interest in the connections between these resources, through a concept called the water–energy nexus. Efforts to improve the integration of water and energy management and to understand their cross-sector relevance are growing. In particular, this paper develops a better empirical understanding on the extent to which governance settings hinder and/or enable policy coherence between the water and energy sectors through a comparative analysis of two case studies, namely, Los Angeles County, California, the United States, and the city of Beijing, China. This paper examines the extent to which the institutional context enables policy coordination within (vertically) and between (horizontally) the water and energy sectors in Beijing and Los Angeles. To do so, we propose a framework for analyzing policy integration for the water energy nexus based on environmental policy integration (EPI). The results highlight the multiple and flexible approaches of EPI in nexus governance, not least with regards to horizontal and vertical policy integration, but also in terms of explicit (i.e., intended) and implicit (i.e., unintended) coordination. The level of nexus-focused policy integration is highly dependent on the motivation at the local context and the criteria to evaluate policy success in each sector.