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View article: Catching up with drought: law and policy responses in the Netherlands
Catching up with drought: law and policy responses in the Netherlands Open
In recent years, it has become evident that regions with historically wetter climates, such as the Netherlands, are rapidly becoming more prone to drought due to climate change. Given that these regions tend to be accustomed to having suff…
Smallholder farms in the sustainable food transition: A critical examination of the new Common Agricultural Policy Open
Almost two thirds of working farms in the European Union are considered smallholder farms. These farms play a crucial role in local food production, rural development, maintaining agrobiodiversity, and promoting cultural heritage. Despite …
Agricultural waste to biofuel and biogas: law and policy Open
The use of arable land for the production of biofuels and biogas has given rise to vigorous political and societal debate on land use. In particular, advocating energy crops over food crops and its associated impact on the environment and …
Support for young farmers in the European Union: How much discretion for Member States? Open
Generational renewal is at the heart of the European Union's (EU) agricultural priorities embedded in the Green Deal and Farm to Fark Strategy, since young farmers not only play a vital role in ensuring the competitiveness of European agri…
Empowering Through Law: Environmental NGOs as Regulatory Intermediaries in EU Nature Governance Open
Private ‘bottom-up’ enforcement has been central to the efforts of the European Union (EU) to promote effective compliance with its ambitious environmental laws. This approach is strengthened by the EU's implementation of the Aarhus Conven…
Bringing nature back to agricultural land: bridging ambition and reality in agri-environmental governance Open
Reconciling agriculture and nature is a major challenge of current times. In the EU and beyond, one of the leading policy instruments used for this purpose is that of voluntary agri-environmental schemes, through which farmers can sign up …
‘Farming out’ biodiversity: Implementing EU nature law through agri-environmental schemes Open
European Union (EU) nature conservation law mandates the protection of more than 2000 species and habitats. Many of these species and their habitats rely on agricultural land, which means that Member State implementation of EU nature law n…
Exploring Citizen Science over Time: Sensing, Technology and the Law Open
People over the course of history have survived by developing their ability to ‘sense’ their environment as an embryonic form of citizen science. With the emergence of modern states, governments have assumed responsibility for monitoring t…
Public participation for a greener Europe: The potential of farmers in biodiversity monitoring Open
This article considers the potential of including farmers in the governance, organization and execution of biodiversity monitoring. More specifically, we consider the opportunities for farmer involvement in biodiversity data collection thr…
Collaborative agri-environmental governance in the Netherlands: a novel institutional arrangement to bridge social-ecological dynamics Open
The theoretical benefits of collaborative landscape-scale approaches to agri-environmental land management have been widely discussed. However, there is little empirical study of the practical governance mechanisms through which such colla…
G. The Netherlands Open
The Dutch news cycle was mainly dominated by two topics this year: the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the formation of a new coalition government. The formation process followed the general elections of March and was accompanied by various …
View article: The democratisation of European nature governance 1992–2015: introducing the comparative nature governance index
The democratisation of European nature governance 1992–2015: introducing the comparative nature governance index Open
European environmental governance has radically transformed over the past two decades. While traditionally enforcement of environmental law has been the responsibility of public authorities (public authorities of the EU Member States, them…
Magnetic law: Designing environmental enforcement laws to encourage us to go further Open
The European Union has some of the world's most ambitious and highly developed environmental laws on its books, but their effectiveness is severely compromised by non‐compliance. With the UNECE Aarhus Convention (1998), Europe launched an …
The Court of Justice and treaty revision: A case of strategic leniency? Open
Students of European Union judicial politics have debated the credibility of legislative override as constraint on the behaviour of the European Court of Justice. Yet because of the high political hurdles for the passage of treaty amendmen…