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Blue Green Governance

The Open Universiteit is involved in a large international Horizon Europe project on coastal and marine governance. This project, BlueGreen Governance aims to develop innovative land-sea governance schemes based on scientific evidence and societal choices. The project offers several opportunities for a thesis project and cooperation with various organization throughout Europe.

Specific topics that could be studied include:

  • Institutional innovation in marine and coastal governance
  • Marine protected areas | climate adaptation | nature-based solutions
  • The biodiversity-water-climate nexus in marine and coastal governance
  • Policy integration
  • Social learning
  • Scenarios and other ways of exploring possible futures

More information about the project BlueGreen Governance (pdf).

Contact: prof. dr. ir. Raoul Beunen for more information or discuss any research idea related to this project.