Roxanne Kiel

The time span of 50 years, from now until 2065 is a long period to make predictions and suggestions for. On a larger scale, the main actions and actors that will affect the mobility future in Texel are: economy and the relevant stakeholders, municipality‘s decisions, and people’s acceptance and cooperation. Focusing on the mobility system, the main parameters we considered and also those that we…

In this chapter we want to reflect upon the activities happening on the area of mobility on Texel. The vision of Texel describes different values and principles, but these are all quite fake. There are no firm requirements made. The mobility of Texel want to simulate the de-use of the car, both for the Texelaar as the tourists. This is in contrast with the new ferry they bought for next year

Symmetries, Expectations, Dynamics and Contexts: A Framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects. Walker et al, 2011   A lot of times, when the implementation of a RET (Renewable Energy Technology) project does not meet with approval of the public, the attention is set on what are the characteristics of the project that cause opposition while there are many other…

As has been explained in the last paragraph the goal is to achieve a completely self-sufficient Texel in 2065. This goal can be broken down in a large number of sub-goals that all need to be achieved. The techo-socio system covered in this report touches upon a number of these sub-goals for which it provides (parts of) solutions. The sub-goals, their proposed solutions and the expected design…

Technology The cost of algae as biofuel is higher than many other types of biofuel. The reason for this is twofold: high operating cost and high capital cost. The latter could be reduced by making use of the infrastructure that is in place at offshore wind parks. Obviously this would require close cooperation between the seaweed farms and operators of the wind parks, but it is not an unrealistic…

In this section the current state of the bio-socio-technological system that is sea farming on Texel will be discussed. It should be noted that as sea farming is not a widely spread practice it can in fact be discussed as if it consists of three parts, namely the biological system, which in this case consists of the sea, the social system, which entails the inhabitants of Texel and their culture

Why do we need to change our way of living As the years pass, the effects of human intervention on the planet start to show themselves more clearly everywhere, most obviously in climate change. A result of this is that society is becoming more aware of sustainability issues, and has been taking the first steps towards transitioning to a sustainable system over the last decade (Pesch). Why Texel…