In our quest to assemble an interdisciplinary team of specialists to devise working methodologies on implementing a research project that should function as a blue print to be rolled out in other European cities, we met Hade Dorst at her working place at the TNO in Den Hague. She is researcher and adviser at the TNO Vector, Centre for Societal Innovation and Strategy.
We got aware of her passion on cross-sectoral and integrated governance and decision-making by tackling and overcome societal challenges and structural barriers in order to facilitate physical spatial transformations. In the framework of Urban sustainability transitions she has a background in (urban) geography and sustainability transitions, uncovering structural conditions that are working against urban nature-based solutions. Within the kind of research that we perform there maybe an interface which breaks down barriers and creates access to the ‘right people’ she thoughts after, like bankers making investment decisions, gatekeepers in large project development companies and senior civil servants at the ministries. When we laid out our case, she offered her cooperation and would become part of the consortium.
As people pose the primary ‘share of nature’ in the Anthropocene, especially in an urban framework, one better contextualises challenges in a socio-ecological perspective, that begs for additional input from knowledge fields of sociology and psychology, but this for another blog.
