THE ART OF COUPLING Multiple streams and policy entrepreneurship in Flemish transition governance processes Erik Paredis & Thomas Block Centre for Sustainable Development, Ghent University Promoter: Prof Dr Thomas Block Research paper 1 Ghent, March 2013 The Policy Research Centre on Transitions for Sustainable Development brings together researchers from KU Leuven, Ghent University, VITO and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Please refer to this publication as follows: Paredis E. & Block T. (2013), The art of coupling. Multiple streams and policy entrepreneurship in Flemish transition processes, Research paper 1, Policy Research Centre TRADO, Ghent. For more information
[email protected] A first version of this paper was presented under the title Everyday strategies and practices in transition governance at the International Sustainability Transitions Conference, September 2012, Copenhagen. The revision of the paper benefited from comments of participants at the conference, and in particular from the comments of the members of the follow-up committee of research stream 1 ‘Structure and agency dynamics in transition governance processes and transition experiments’. This publication was sponsored by the Flemish Government, under the 2012-2015 Policy Research Centre Programme. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Flemish Government cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. © 2013 POLICY RESEARCH CENTRE ON TRANSITIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT p.a. Administration Policy Research Centre on Transitions for Sustainable Development HIVA – Research Institute for Work and Society Parkstraat 47 box 5300, BE 3000 Leuven, Belgium This publication is also available via www.steunpunttrado.be Contents Abstract iv Introduction 1 1.