What makes long-term perspectives endure? Lessons from Dutch nature conservation

This paper reflects on the performance and endurance of long-term perspectives their impact strategies, institutional change material effects. In past decades, perspective a national ecological network has been key element Dutch nature conservation policy. By focusing temporal, procedural discursive dimensions conservation, analysis shows that can function as powerful coordination tools, across government levels due time. Conversely, actual realization often proves vulnerable to multiple dependencies built into governance processes, including competing claims about future related strategies. context policy, we witness growing discrepancy between one hand changes effects other. We subsequently examine underlying conditions which enabled endure through time still play an important role in policies actions public private organisations. The actors, institutions realities emerging over provides with some critical mass, while it also explains its disposition