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Voßler, Piet (2023)

Stakeholder coordination in Rotterdam’s sustainability transition: A study of role and responsibility communication in municipal publications

Bachelor thesis | Urban Studies (BA)

This research explores how Rotterdam communicates stakeholder roles and responsibility within the city’s sustainability strategy. Building on stakeholder theory and research about participation in sustainability transitions, a qualitative research using a content analysis was conducted. Two municipal publications were examined with to analyze contexts in which different stakeholders were mentioned. The results indicate that the municipality sees sustainability as an issue concerning everyone and therefore, tries to create the feeling of a shared responsibility between inhabitants, companies and the municipality as the main stakeholders in the city’s sustainability transition.

Sustainability

Rotterdam

Stakeholders, Content analysis

Author

Voßler, Piet

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Angela Caredda

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en