Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The unsettling success of governance for sustainable building -- Introduction -- The sustainability performance of the built environment -- The performance of sustainable building policies in the Netherlands -- Explaining policy success and unease: the ambiguity of sustainable development -- How to design policies addressing ambiguous, multi-actor problems? -- Research questions -- Policies in support of a sustainable built environment -- Introduction -- A brief history of environmental awareness -- How sustainable development changed environmental policy making -- A redefined relationship between environment and construction -- Changes in public policies addressing construction and environment -- Challenges for policy makers -- Suggested policy improvements: will they work? -- Policy networks: a theoretical perspective on policy making -- Introduction -- A single-actor perspective on policy making -- Taking the multi-actor context into account -- Policy networks as forms of collaborative governance -- Analysing policy networks -- Towards prescription: governing network governance -- Promises and pitfalls of meta-governance -- Conclusion -- Evaluating an evolutionary policy network approach to learning -- Introduction -- Evaluation in policy network approaches -- Learning within policy networks -- Policy learning and policy change -- An evolutionary perspective to policy learning -- Learning as processes of variation, selection and retention -- Discussion and reflection -- Methodology -- Introduction -- Research methodology -- Case selection -- Research steps and operationalisation -- Reducing diffuse zinc emisssions -- Introduction to the policy -- Methodology -- The policy process arrangements dealing with zinc -- The policy issue and its environment -- Issues in the policy process.

Arenas in the policy process -- Policy networks in the policy process -- Some first observations -- Perceptions and strategies in the policy process -- Perceptions -- Strategies in the policy process -- The lessons learned -- Evaluating the learning from an evolutionary perspective -- Conclusions -- Stimulating sustainable building -- Introduction to the policy -- Methodology -- The policy process -- The policy issue and its environment -- Issues in the policy process -- Networks in the policy process -- Arenas in the policy process -- Perceptions and strategies in the policy process -- The lessons learned -- Evaluating the learning from an evolutionary perspective -- Conclusions -- Restricting urban sprawl -- Introduction to the policy -- Methodology -- Reconstruction of the policy process -- The policy issue and its environment -- Issues in the policy process -- Arenas in the policy process -- Networks in the policy process -- Some observations about the policy environment -- Perceptions and strategies in the policy process -- The lessons learned -- Evaluating the learning from an evolutionary perspective -- Conclusions -- Greening governance: lessons for policy design -- Introduction -- An evolutionary perspective to learning in policy networks -- Learning in the policy processes -- Variety in the policy process -- Selection in the policy process -- Retention in the policy process: preservation -- Retention in the policy process: regeneration -- Conclusions for policy making -- Theoretical reflection and future research -- References -- Appendix I. Methodology for Chapter 6 -- Appendix II. Methodology for Chapter 7 -- Appendix III. Methodology for Chapter 8 -- Appendix IV. Greening governance in practice: A serious game for sustainable urban renewal -- Introduction -- Supporting sustainable decision-making in urban renewal projects.

The modelling environment for design impact assessment (MEDIA) -- The DUBES game -- Findings and insights -- How the evolutionary approach influenced the game design -- Summary and conclusion -- References -- Summary (English) -- Summary (Dutch) -- Curriculum Vitae.