Besluitvormingsmodellen in het transitieproces. Toegepast op vegetarisch voedsel

The Fourth National Environmental Policy Plan (NMP4) outlines the Dutch government's strategy to tackle persistent environmental problems like increasing CO2 emissions in the long term. The government aims to support transitions as a process of structural change in society with transition management. Actors, like government, industry, non-governmental organisations, consumers and bank, play an important role in such societal change. The Netherlands Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has developed a framework to monitor assess and support transition management from a multi-actor perspective. This framework is called 'Arenas in the transition process'. An Arena represents a network of actors where discussions, negotiations and decisions take place on several subjects of transition mangenment, e.g. R&D investment and policy aims. The dynamics of such an network have been researched with formal decision-making models from the firm of consultants, DECIDE. These models (quantitatively) describe the actors involved in a specific decision-making network from the perspective of their position on issues of decision-making, their interest in these decisions and their power in the network. This document reports how the framework ' Arenas in the transition process' and the decision-making models are applied using a case study on meat alternitives, Novel Protein Foods (NPF), for wich the main conclussions follow. -The Arenas framework is helpful in studying the developments within society from a multi-actor perspective. Here the framework functions as a tool for monitoring, evaluation and assessment of the progress in the transitions intended by the government. -Formal decision-making models support the framework in researching the developments within Arena. The quantitave network analysis support transition magement. For example, simulation of the policy development phase on NPF shows that the actors currentlyin the NPF field are supportive of a policy aim for meat substitution in 2015 of about 15%. This study comprisedpart of a research progrmme on transition and actor-oriented plicy assessment within RIVM. The ' Novel protein Foods' case study was solely used to study the functionality of the framework an decision-making models. No judgement was passed on the potential of NPF itself.