Hello, I'm Bert Enserink and I'm your teacher in this part of the course.
Now that we have made a list of the actors potentially involved - after we have made
a pre-selection of the actors which we think are most important to take along and after
mapping their formal relations- we are now going to look for more in-depth information
about the selected actors.
Before we can start looking for them we first have to define what we mean by objectives
and interests;
Well, objectives are the goals that an actor wants to achieve in a concrete situation;
for instance Greenpeace wants to prevent that an old oil rig is dumped in the deep sea.
Interests are considered to be fundamental objectives; it is the reason why actors want
to achieve a specific goal; it is the reason why they care.
For instance Greenpeace wants to prevent dumping old oil rigs because they say people are responsible
for caring for the environment and therefore we should protect marine eco-systems.
Interest are deeply embedded in our personal values and they are relatively stable over
time; we can easily change our objectives but we don't easily betray our interest.
And thirdly I want you to remember what we mean by 'perception'.
Perception is the way we look at the world; our worldview.
It is largely based on selective information and our social background and influenced by
peer pressure.
Remember in Step 2 we made a first provisional inventory of actors; in this step we will
elaborate and do in depth research after the interests,
objectives and means.
After mapping the formal relations we have learned more about them and at this stage
we need to be sure we have sufficient and reliable data.
So there is a need to do some additional research; policy documents; annual reports,
consulting experts in the field; maybe interviewing spokespersons in order to fill out the information
card on each actor in more detail.
Let us start with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment (I&E) and its Directorate
Space & Water.
Typically the interest or fundamental objective of I&E Space and Water is a Safe,
efficient and profitable use of the North Sea,
while the concrete objective is creating Space for offshore wind,
without impeding other uses.
The problem of cleft they perceive is that talk is only about search areas which has
to do with the intensive use of the North Sea especially in the near shore area.
I&Es preferred solution is to have its Minister indicate more search areas.
The same exercise we can do for the other actors,
like the Ministries other directorate: the directorate environment.
Environment, although part of the same Ministry holds other interests.
They want to reduce pollution and are concerned about CO2 emissions; their objective is 20%
renewables, preferably at sea.
So you can see that their filled out fact sheet differs from the directorate of space and water.
We can now do this for all other actors such as for instance the energy companies and fill
out their interests like producing energy and their objectives in the same way.
As a final step in making this inventory you might make an overview table where you can
see in one glance all the actors, their interests, objectives,
the problem as they perceive it, its causes, the preferred solutions and their means.
All in one big table.