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Harry Lintsen · Frank Veraart
Jan-Pieter Smits · John Grin
Well-being,
Sustainability
and Social
Development
The Netherlands 1850–2050
Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development
Harry Lintsen • Frank Veraart • Jan-Pieter Smits
John Grin
Well-being, Sustainability
and Social Development
The Netherlands 1850–2050
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Cover Photo In the 1970s, concerns about nuclear waste and the impossibility of managing
nuclear power not only stimulated a Broad Societal Debate in the Netherlands but also gave rise
to massive protests ranging from refusals to pay a surcharge on the electricity bill – the so-called
Kalkar levy – to demonstrations in Kalkar, the town where a joint German-Dutch-Belgian
experimental reactor was being built. The picture was taken on September 28th, 1974.
Mieremet, Rob, National Archives of the Netherlands /collection: Anefo, Public Domain,
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This work is part of the research program Historical Roots of the Dutch Sustainability
Challenge: The Impact of the Utilization of Material Resources on the Modernization
of Dutch Society, 1850–2010 with project number 360-69-010, which is (partly)
financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Additional
financial support was granted by the Knowledge Network for System Innovations
and Transitions (KSI).
Research was conducted at Eindhoven University of Technology, University of
Groningen, University of Amsterdam and Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
This publication is made possible with financial support of Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and Simac Techniek NV.
v
Acknowledgements
This book has long antecedents. In 2004, a large international research programme
into sustainable development and transitions was launched. More than 80 research-
ers from different disciplinary backgrounds and located at twelve universities and
research institutes had organised themselves in the ‘Dutch Knowledge Network on
System Innovation and Transitions’ (KSI). The aim was to acquire insights into
transitions based on research into long-term developments, system innovations and
current policy. The programme, financed by the Dutch government, generated pol-
icy recommendations, courses, scientific publications and six books in the series
‘Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions’.
In 2009, KSI approached the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) and the
Foundation for the History of Technology (SHT) to undertake preliminary research
into sustainable development in the Netherlands from the nineteenth century on.
Harry Lintsen, Fred Lambert, Frank Veraart, Giel van Hooff and Hans Schippers
carried out the research in cooperation with John Grin of the University of
Amsterdam (UvA). In this phase, the researchers also co-operated with the Rathenau
Institute in a study into the sustainability promises of a bio based economy. The
preliminary research programme led to a research proposal: ‘Historical Roots of the
Dutch Sustainability Challenge: The Impact of the Utilization of Material Resources
on the Modernization of Dutch Society, 1850–2010’. The Dutch Organisation for
Scientific Research (NWO) funded the proposal with the TU/e as main recipient,
and Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the University of Groningen (RUG) as co-
recipients. The research team was composed of Harry Lintsen (TU/e, project leader),
Ben Gales (RUG), John Grin (UvA), Rick Hölsgens (RUG), Lilianne Laan (TU/e),
Fred Lambert (TU/e), Frank Notten (Statistics Netherlands), Jan Pieter Smits
(Statistics Netherlands) and Frank Veraart (TU/e). Deliverables consisted of a dis-
sertation, scientific publications, conference papers and research reports. In addi-
tion, provisions were made to produce a synthesis of the different research results.
Harry Lintsen, Frank Veraart, Jan Pieter Smits and John Grin wrote the two pub-
lications that synthesized the research programme. The first, entitled Well-being,
Sustainability and Social Development: The Netherlands 1850–2050, was an open
access publication published by Springer in 2018. The second, entitled De kwetsbare
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viii Acknowledgements
welvaart van Nederland 1850-2050. Naar een circulaire economie, was published
as a book by Prometheus, also in 2018. Contributions to various chapters were made
by Fred Lambert (Chaps. 2, 4, 5, 9, 14, 19 and 24), Rick Hölsgens (Chaps. 2, 6, 10,
17 and 22), Ben Gales (Chaps. 2, 3, 6, 10, 17 and 22), Lilianne Laan (Chap. 3) and
Frank Notten. Research support was additionally provided by Martijn Anthonissen
(TU/e, Chaps. 3 and 9), Truus Lintsen (Chap. 5) and Önder Nomaler (TU/e, Chaps.
3 and 5). André Burger (Cement and Concrete Centre), Petra van Dam (Free
University of Amsterdam), Rutger Hoekstra (CBS), Hans Renes (University of
Utrecht) and Ab Stevels (Technical University Delft) were all solicited for advice on
various aspects of the programme. Giel van Hooff researched the illustrations and
wrote the accompanying captions. Brigitte Möller, Nena van As and Marissa
Damink helped to prepare the texts for the two publishers.
The manuscript, Well-being and Sustainability in the Netherlands 1850–2010,
that served as the basis for both the above publications, was discussed at length in
the course of an international workshop held on March 3 and 4, 2017, in Eindhoven.
Participants were Vanesa Castan Broto (University College London), Nil Disco
(University of Twente), Rutger Hoekstra (Statistics Netherlands), Elena Kochetkova
(National Research University, Higher School of Economics of St. Petersburg),
Fridolin Krausman (Alpen Adia University), Magnus Lindmark (Umea University),
Peter Scholiers (Free University Brussels), Johan Schot (SPRU, University of
Sussex), Geert Verbong (TU/e) and Jan Luiten van Zanden (University of Utrecht).
The members of the research team also participated in the workshop. The English-
language manuscript discussed at the workshop as well as the English-language
publication with Springer was based on a prior Dutch text. Nil Disco was respon-
sible for the translation. The authors revised the publications for Springer and
Prometheus in line with the workshop commentary.
The chair in history of technology at the TU/e (in particular Mila Davids and
Ruth Oldenziel) and the Foundation for the History of Technology, both under the
leadership of Erik van der Vleuten, were sources of inspiration for the research pro-
gramme. Simac Techniek NV and the TU/e were crucial in preparing the publica-
tions with Springer and Prometheus.
We are extremely grateful to all participants for the contributions they made to
the research programme.
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