Organising knowledge generation and dissemination in the Dutch high-water protection programme – a sender-receiver approach

Duijn, Michael; Vreugdenhil, Heleen; Janssen, Saskia; Tromp, Ellen; Ellen, Gerald Jan

doi:10.1080/14778238.2021.1886617

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“…The state of knowledge creation, transfer and uptake in four projects was analysed by means of a document analysis and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the professionals involved. For each project, we interviewed four professionals and shared our findings in a concluding workshop to share the insights and jointly draw up recommendations [25]. This was the first action research cycle.…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Three years after the start of the projects, we conducted our in-depth analysis [6,25], first, by analysing the documents and, then, by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews with team members and intended end users. Our observations showed that the teams produced different types of knowledge, such as methodological and process knowledge.…”

Section: Action Research Cycle: Analysis Of Four Technical Research A...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, the DFPP organisation increasingly uses boundary spanners to help them and the projects. The lessons learned from the initial period [6,25] helped to further define the role of the boundary spanners, who can act as brokers, translators or synthesisers:…”

Section: Knowledge Transfer and Uptakementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Dutch Flood Protection Programme: Taking Innovations to the Next Level

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The Dutch regional water authorities face an enormous task: the strengthening of about 1500 km of dikes and 500 civil-engineering structures before 2050. This immense operation is being funded, prioritised and supported by the Dutch Flood Protection Programme (DFPP), an alliance of regional water authorities and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. The work will be executed in nearly 300 projects located throughout the country on the coast, lakes and major rivers. To complete this task on time and within budget, innovation (a better insight into the behaviour of flood defences, new techniques and processes) is believed to be the way forward. In this paper, we look at how the DFPP has encouraged innovations between 2012 and the present. We stress the importance of using a sender–receiver approach to further knowledge transfer and uptake, and we describe how, by using an action research approach, the Dutch Flood Protection Programme is currently adapting its innovation strategy on the basis of lessons learned to improve knowledge uptake. We will address some of the innovations that have been developed over the years and how monitoring knowledge uptake helps to further improve the learning-by-doing approach.

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Knowledge uptake from lived experience regarding sustainable groundwater management: complementing scientific knowledge in urban policymaking

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Perez

2024

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Urbanization can pose water management challenges in cities while overlooking the possibilities of residents’ lived experience and collaborative action learning. We show how the conceptual model of the Lived Experience of Sustainable Urban Groundwater Level identifies several aspects of local knowledge development through an ex-post case study in Rotterdam’s Flower Neighbourhood (The Netherlands), where too low groundwater levels threaten house foundations. Three types of local knowledge development emerged: (i) performing and monitoring well measurements by residents, (ii) environment-specific insights collected by residents and shared with civil servants, and (iii) collaboration on groundwater management experiments, resulting in empirical groundwater data. Overcoming communication barriers, trust issues, and power dynamics are crucial for effectively retrieving and integrating lived experience into collective learning for urban sustainable development.

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