Samenvatting

Notwithstanding a rising demand for strategic knowledge in the environmental domain at the regional level in the Netherlands, its production is mainly organised at the Dutch national level. Various parties have called for the establishment of regional knowledge institutions. Experiences of PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency however show that focusing on implementing these institutional fixes fails to recognise the multi-level character of the policy context in which the demand for strategic knowledge arises. Based on three PBL projects, this article shows how knowledge production arrangements are designed in continuous interaction between knowledge demand, method and positioning of PBL. This leads to a variety of outcomes. This article concludes with a typology of multi-level knowledge production arrangements, based on these experiences. The typology is intended to advance the debate on the organisation of such arrangements within a multi-level policy context in a reflexive and problem-specific way.